COSTA MESA, Calif., Nov. 2, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the market leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters and embedded storage switches for the storage networking industry, today announced that its LightPulse(tm) LP10000DC dual channel and midrange LP1050 PCI-X Fibre Channel HBAs are certified by Unisys Corp. (NYSE:UIS) for use with its ES7000 enterprise servers. The Emulex LP10000DC and LP1050 PCI-X HBAs completed a series of stringent compatibility tests to earn certification. Integration into the ES7000 IA64-based enterprise servers is immediate, evidence that Emulex HBAs deliver the robust connectivity and performance required for mission-critical storage networking installations.
"Unisys performed rigorous certification testing for our mission-critical customers and requires our technology partners' products to meet high standards for reliability, availability and scalability," said Craig Boesen, commodity manager for Unisys. "This certification ensures that Emulex HBAs provide the robust feature set and performance to deliver powerful connectivity between our servers and SANs. We will continue to work closely with Emulex to deploy high quality server and storage networking solutions."
The Emulex LP10000 family of host bus adapters offers highly integrated connectivity solutions for enterprise-class storage area networks. The LP10000DC dual channel and midrange LP1050 HBAs deliver exceptional performance through the use of Thor, Emulex's sixth generation Fibre Channel I/O controller. Additionally, Emulex HBAs offer a firmware-based architecture and operating system driver compatibility, which provides customers with a simplified upgrade path, reduced management complexities and also ensures a lower total cost of ownership.
"The Emulex LP10000DC HBA is built to thrive in the most demanding enterprise computing environments," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex. "Unisys' certification ensures that customers can combine the most advanced technology from Emulex with the Unisys IA64-based ES7000 enterprise server series to deploy large scale, robust Fibre Channel SANs."
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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