COSTA MESA, Calif., June 6, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced that Fujitsu Limited has selected the Emulex LightPulse(r) LP10000 Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) for use with its recently announced 64-bit mission-critical open server, called PRIMEQUEST(tm). Emulex HBAs are now integrated into the PRIMEQUEST servers, and the existing PRIMEPOWER(tm) family of servers, to provide the robust and reliable connectivity to Fibre Channel-based storage area networks (SANs).
"We chose the Emulex LP10000 HBA for seamless, high performance SAN connectivity, and our enterprise customers will benefit from the flexibility of Emulex's trusted and solid architecture," said Akira Kabemoto, General Manager of Mission Critical IA Server Division, Fujitsu Limited. "The new Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST server family, which leverages the inherent flexibility of the Emulex LightPulse HBA architecture for enhanced management and feature benefits, delivers the unmatched performance and reliability that is critical to our data center customers."
The Emulex LightPulse family of HBAs offers highly integrated connectivity solutions for enterprise-class storage networks. With a unique firmware-based architecture and operating system driver compatibility, customers benefit from a simplified upgrade path, reduced management complexities and a lower total cost of ownership.
Combining 64-bit Intel(r) Itanium(r)2 processors with qualified 64-bit HBA drivers from Emulex and the standard specifications of Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems ensures the PRIMEQUEST server family delivers an innovative system architecture for highest availability and business continuity. PRIMEQUEST servers provide a new operational efficiency for business critical computing with truly open standards and meets the demands of customers trying to expand the reach of open industry standards to include mission critical enterprise operations.
"The new Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST family of servers is designed for the world's most complex, mission-critical data centers under open environments and we are confident the combined solutions provide our most demanding CIO and enterprise customers with the leading-edge tools to maximize the efficiency and capacity of their SANs," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corp. "Coupling the Emulex LP10000 HBAs with the Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST server family validates the ongoing, long-term success of our strategic relationship."
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(r) 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. Emulex'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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