COSTA MESA, Calif., April 21, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced the American Electronics Association (AeA) has honored Emulex Corporation with its 2005 Outstanding Product/Technology award for its latest 4Gb/s embedded switch innovation -- FibreSpy. Over 300 attendees were on hand at the awards event, where AeA gave special recognition to Emulex for its outstanding contributions to the high-technology community.
The AeA is the nation's largest high-tech trade association. Hosted annually by the AeA Council, the High Tech Awards honor outstanding local technology companies and acknowledge individual contributions to the high-tech business community.
"Emulex's FibreSpy technology has created a new paradigm in storage environments, and the AeA Outstanding Technology/Product of the Year Award validates our engineering ingenuity and commitment to delivering world-class storage networking products," said Paul Folino, Emulex Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Congratulations to the innovative Emulex employees who were instrumental in bringing FibreSpy to market."
"Emulex is a clear recognized leader in the storage industry, and its contributions to the technology world have both shaped and reshaped the market," said Phil Beaudoin, executive director, AeA OC Council. "The company's forward-thinking speaks to Emulex's innovative spirit, and it served as a deciding factor in our selection of the company for this year's award."
Introduced in November 2004, FibreSpy is the first and only embedded storage switch to enable thousands of Fibre Channel disk drives with various capabilities to be interconnected within a tiered storage array, providing unmatched scalability and cost optimization. The FibreSpy SOC 804 family of embedded storage switches offers a modular, speed-agile 4Gb/s embedded switch that provides storage OEMs with unprecedented design flexibility, and enables the deployment of a new breed of industry-first storage applications.
About AeA
AeA, founded in 1943, is a nationwide non-profit trade association that represents all segments of the technology industry and is dedicated solely to helping our members' top line and bottom line. We do this in partnership with our small, medium, and large member companies by lobbying governments at the state, federal, and international levels; providing access to capital and business opportunities; and offering select business services and networking programs.
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 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 www.emulex.com.
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