COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 21, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and embedded storage switches, announced today that Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) has certified multiple Emulex HBAs, including the LP10000 family, for use with ADIC tape libraries and disk backup solutions. By virtue of the certifications, customers can utilize Emulex HBAs to connect ADIC solutions to a storage area network (SAN) and benefit from the combined interoperability of the product lines.
The Emulex LightPulse LP10000DC dual channel HBA for use in Windows and Solaris environments is certified for use with ADIC's Scalar 24, 100, 1000, 10K, and i2000 tape libraries and Pathlight VX integrated disk-to-tape backup solution. Previous certification of Emulex's LightPulse HBAs include the LP1050, LP9802 and the LP982 for use with ADIC's Scalar 24, 100, 1000, 10K and i2000 tape library solutions in Windows and Linux environments.
"Emulex's goal is to provide the flexible building blocks and connectivity solutions for all types of networked storage systems," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corp. "Certification of Emulex HBAs for use with ADIC libraries and disk backup solutions helps ensure customers will experience seamless deployment of SANs, and ultimately benefit from the performance and flexibility of networked storage."
"Certifying interoperability for ADIC backup solutions with host bus adapters from Emulex is part of our on-going commitment to help our customers more effectively manage and protect their business-critical data," said Scott Roza, vice president of sales and marketing at ADIC. "We are pleased to announce the new certifications and are confident that our joint efforts are making it easier for our customers to implement the storage strategies needed to keep up with the continued growth of their key digital assets."
The Emulex family of Fibre Channel HBAs offers a firmware-based architecture and operating system driver compatibility across product generations, which provides customers with a simplified upgrade path and reduced management complexities while ensuring a lower total cost of ownership.
The ADIC Scalar library family features include integrated SAN support, intelligent monitoring and alerting functions, capacity-on-demand scalability, and options for full redundant robotics and controllers for high availability operations. ADIC's Pathlight VX integrated disk-to-tape backup solution enhances backup and restore processes with the benefits of disk, while retaining the long-term data protection capabilities of tape.
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 ranked number 16 in the Deloitte 2004 Technology Fast 50 and most recently received recognition as one of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies.
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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