COSTA MESA, Calif., Aug. 9, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced the Emulex LP1005DC Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA), designed specifically for IBM(R) eServer(TM) BladeCenter(R) servers, is now qualified and interoperable via the IBM eServer BladeCenter Alliance Program. The Emulex LP1005DC is available now (IBM part number 39R9550).
"The Emulex LP1005DC has successfully achieved interoperability testing for integration into our BladeCenter products, for end-users migrating to server blades," said Juhi Jotwani, Director of IBM eServer BladeCenter Alliances, IBM Systems and Technology Group. "With the increasing amount of server blades connecting into SAN environments, it is critical that end users have the flexibility to leverage the connectivity solutions that many have standardized on throughout their data center environments."
"As a member of the IBM BladeCenter Alliance Program, and first to achieve qualification status under this new program, we have worked closely with IBM to fully test and deploy the LP1005DC for high performance SAN connectivity," Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex Corp. "Customers choosing to integrate Emulex HBAs into IBM BladeCenter servers for SAN connectivity will benefit from the same market-leading performance, reliability and management features they have come to trust and expect from Emulex."
Available now, the Emulex LP1005DC HBA is based on the market-leading LightPulse LP10000 family of HBAs. For more information, visit http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/bladecenter/alliance/interop/emulex/test_062805/index.html.
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. 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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