COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 19, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters and embedded storage switches, today announced that NEC Corporation has integrated a customized version of Emulex's Thor-based dual channel Fibre Channel HBA for storage networking connectivity within the NEC Express5800 family of Blade Servers. The NEC Express5800 family of blade servers with the integrated Emulex dual channel connectivity solution is available from NEC beginning October 29 in Japan.
"NEC's next generation of Express blade servers are designed to enable outward scalability that is fully complimented by Emulex's flexible HBA design," said Koji Iguchi, Chief Manager of NEC's Client and Server Division. "The inherent design and flexibility of Emulex products has made its Thor-based dual channel HBAs an ideal connectivity solution for the newest generation of NEC Express5800 Blade Servers."
The NEC Express5800 Blade Server series offers advanced features concentrated onto a single board to ensure highly flexible and reliable computing performance in environments with limited space. The NEC Express5800 series, coupled with the Emulex HBA for high performance storage networking connectivity, fully optimizes scalability to implement higher mounting density than that of general-purpose rack mounted servers.
"NEC's selection of the dual channel Thor-based HBA underscores our commitment to providing products that meet both the footprint and performance requirements of our customers," said Mike Smith, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Emulex Corp. "NEC's Blade Server family offers an ideal solution for end users seeking first-rate products for space-constrained IT departments and we are pleased that NEC continues to rely on Emulex for highly scalable and flexible connectivity solutions."
The Emulex Thor-based LP10000 family includes both single- and dual-channel HBAs, in a low-profile form factor that adapts to either standard height or blade server slots. The LP10000 product family builds upon the Emulex software architecture, which enables the independence of an operating system's device driver from the underlying HBA platform. This exclusive HBA architecture is the foundation for proven reductions in the total cost of ownership of a SAN. The Emulex HBA architecture provides a platform that is fully software compatible with previous generations of Emulex's market leading HBAs. This enables customers to effortlessly migrate to new Emulex HBAs, while also allowing for simplified integration into existing storage area networks.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world leader in Fibre Channel HBAs and delivers a broad range of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems. Emulex was named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies, and ranked number 16 in the Deloitte 2004 Technology Fast 50.
The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex HBAs, embedded storage switching and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage solutions. The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(tm) HBAs and InSpeed(tm) embedded storage switching products, are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum Corp., StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.
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