SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 22, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Server Blade Summit 2005 -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent provider of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced that Charles Nogales, Emulex Vice President of Engineering and Joe Teolis, Emulex Vice President of Product Marketing, will participate in two panel discussions at this year's Server Blade Summit, to be held March 22-23 at the Marriott Hotel in Santa Clara, Calif. The presentations will provide insight into the company's LP1005DC HBA offering, designed specifically for the IBM eServer BladeCenter. Additionally, Emulex's exhibit in Booth No. 702 showcases an IBM eServer BladeCenter with the Emulex LP1005DC HBA for SAN connectivity.
Nogales will join a panel titled "Developing Products from an Open Blade Specification," scheduled for Tuesday, March 22, at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time. The discussion will review the hardware, software and management design aspects of a blade server-based product. Nogales will share his experiences as the Emulex executive responsible for HBA hardware design, development and certification.
In addition, Teolis will lead a presentation on future I/O requirements for blade servers during a storage issues panel scheduled for Wednesday, March 23 at 2:00 p.m. Teolis will highlight the various SAN connectivity developments that are key to the adoption of blade server architectures. Teolis is responsible for managing marketing activities for the company's LightPulse(tm) family of market-leading host bus adapters.
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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