COSTA MESA, Calif., Jan. 11, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters and embedded storage switches, today announced that it has now shipped over four million ports of its award-winning InSpeed(tm) embedded storage switches. Previously, in May 2004, Emulex announced that two million ports of InSpeed had shipped since the technology first became available in May 2002. With over two million additional ports of InSpeed delivered between May 2004 and January 2005, the rate of InSpeed port shipments has nearly tripled over the last nine months, which reinforces the ongoing penetration of InSpeed embedded storage switching technology into various segments of the storage market.
"The sharp ramp-up in customer shipments of InSpeed over the past nine months reflects the storage market's continued acceptance of embedded storage switching as a mainstay of storage array design," said Jim McCluney, president and chief operating officer, Emulex Corp. "Now in its third generation, InSpeed technology first established the embedded storage switch market and, to date, it remains the only broadly deployed, field-proven Fibre Channel embedded storage switch technology in the market. With the addition of Emulex's all-new, highly modular FibreSpy(tm) embedded switching technology, which integrates seamlessly with InSpeed and enables additional levels of design flexibility, Emulex remains ahead of the curve as storage OEMs increasingly embrace embedded storage switch technologies."
InSpeed was the first technology to bring high performance Fibre Channel switching inside the storage array, enabling new levels of Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) and performance for storage systems. Leading storage providers such as IBM, HP, Network Appliance, Fujitsu, Xyratex, Apple, Quantum, BlueArc and NEC have already deployed solutions with InSpeed.
"Seagate is the pioneer and number one leader in Fibre Channel drives sold and shipped worldwide. The fact that Emulex has shipped 4 million ports of its InSpeed embedded storage switches further validates the extension of Fibre Channel beyond the data center," said Jeff Loebakka, Seagate Technology vice president of marketing. "New applications for Fibre Channel including tiered storage are helping increase InSpeed and FibreSpy deployment and demand for Fibre Channel-based systems that storage vendors are rushing to meet."
To find out more about how InSpeed and FibreSpy embedded storage switching technologies enable next generation storage solution designs, please visit www.emulex.com.
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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