PHOENIX, April 12, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Storage Networking World, Booth No. P21 -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, will demonstrate a broad spectrum of new storage technologies at Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2005, April 12-15 in Phoenix, Arizona. Emulex has teamed with industry leaders such as Brocade, Engenio, IBM, Microsoft, and Seagate to showcase new and innovative solutions that will extend storage networking to new users and markets. In its booth (No. P21), Emulex offers SNW attendees a glimpse of its broad range of next generation connectivity and management solutions, including the Company's first live demonstration of Emulex's 4Gb/s PCI Express HBA solutions in conjunction with its Enterprise AutoPilot Installer management wizard.
Also being showcased in the Emulex booth is a live demonstration of SATA Tunneling over Fibre Channel technology, which Emulex developed and proposed to ANSI's T11 Committee for inclusion into the Fibre Channel protocol as an industry standard. Last week, ANSI's T11 Committee accepted the standards proposal and will begin formation of a working group next month. SATA Tunneling Over Fibre Channel enables attachment of low cost SATA disk drives into embedded Fibre Channel-based storage systems, which protects customers' existing Fibre Channel investments and enables customers to incorporate SATA disk drives to lower system costs.
Emulex Executives Speak at SNW:
-- Emulex Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Mike
Smith will discuss the end-user benefits associated with 4Gb/s
Fibre Channel technologies as part of an Engenio media event on
Wednesday, April 13 at 1pm in Desert Conference Suite 7 at the
JW Marriott Hotel.
-- Emulex Vice President of HBA Product Marketing Joe Teolis will
discuss the unique storage needs of the small- to medium-sized
enterprise market in his SNW conference breakout session called,
"SME: The Technology Foundation for Small to Medium Enterprise
SANs," on Wednesday, April 13, from 2:10 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. MT,
in the Peak Pinnacle 3 room.
Alliance Activities
-- Emulex and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. will conduct
the first public demonstration of "EZPilot," their joint
multi-vendor SAN installation and management solution, which
was recently announced on April 4, 2005. EZPilot simplifies
end-to-end SAN installation and storage provisioning by using
straightforward wizards and a single user interface to streamline
the HBA, switch and storage array installation and ongoing
management. Emulex and Brocade's EZPilot demonstration can be
seen at the Microsoft Storage Pavilion.
-- In Seagate's booth No. P13, Emulex, IBM and Seagate partner to
conduct a joint technology demonstration using Object-based
Storage Devices (OSD). Object-Based Storage is a new command
set designed to delegate more functionality and intelligence
into individual storage devices. This is the world's first
demonstration that is compliant with the SCSI OSD command
set standard ratified last year.
Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs and switches are also showcased throughout the SNW exhibition hall and SNIA Interoperability & Solutions Lab (iLab). Visitors to iLab will find Emulex solutions embedded in a variety of interoperability demonstrations including the SAN Infrastructure and Storage Management themed areas. Other companies utilizing Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs include Aristos Logic, Brocade and the FCIA's 4Gb/s interoperability demonstration.
The Exhibit Hall for Storage Networking World is open on Wednesday, April 13 from 5:30pm - 8:30pm and on Thursday, April 14 12:15 - 1:45 p.m. and 3:45 - 7:15 p.m. The iLabs is open on Wednesday, April 13 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. and Thursday, April 14 from 12:15 - 7:15 p.m. For more information on Emulex and its activities at the Storage Networking World Spring 2005 Conference please visit www.snwusa.com.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions spanning host bus adapters, embedded storage switches, I/O controllers and SAN Storage Switches. 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( HBAs and InSpeedTM 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, Engenio, 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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