COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 17, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity, today announced the Emulex 4Gb/s PCI Express and PCI-X 2.0 Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) are qualified for use with EMC(r) Symmetrix(r) and EMC CLARiiON(r) networked storage solutions. The EMC E-Lab(tm) Tested qualification ensures that the two companies' products work together seamlessly and pave the way for migration to the next generation of SAN connectivity speeds. This design win also highlights Emulex's continued leverage of native PCI Express architecture for 4 Gb/s storage solutions.
"EMC's qualification of our 4 Gb/s HBA products underscores Emulex's strong leadership position and commitment to bringing next-generation storage networking connectivity solutions to customers," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex. "By offering 4 Gb/s solutions that leverage a native PCI Express architecture, Emulex is helping EMC to create a seamless migration path for its customers' future data requirements."
Emulex's 4 Gb/s solutions provide EMC customers with the ability to easily and reliably connect servers to 4 Gb/s SAN architectures.
For Windows solutions, Emulex HBAs utilize both the Microsoft Storport Miniport and SCSIport Miniport drivers. Emulex's new 4 Gb/s HBAs provide customers with the ability to double the speed of today's 2 Gb/s storage networks. The flexible Emulex hardware-independent architecture enables use of a common HBA driver across generations, ensuring backward compatibility with the large installed base of Emulex HBAs.
"EMC's goal is to provide its customers with the most effective technologies to manage and extend their storage systems," said Tom Joyce, EMC's Vice President of Storage Platforms Marketing. "The Emulex's 4 Gb/s technology will help our customers address expanding storage capacity and data growth demands with increased levels of speed and manageability."
About the Emulex 4Gb/s Family of SAN Connectivity Solutions
Emulex boasts a broad range of production available 4 Gb/s SAN connectivity solutions, including HBAs, I/O Controllers (IOCs) and embedded storage switches. The Emulex suite of 4 Gb/s infrastructure solutions includes general availability of its 4 Gb/s LightPulse Fibre Channel HBAs and IOCs for both PCI-X 2.0 and PCI Express-based servers. Designed to meet the needs of multiple solution environments, ranging from blade servers to enterprise and midrange storage systems, Emulex's 4 Gb/s products feature the latest ARM processor and integrated memory to maximize efficiency in the most data-intensive environments.
Customers utilizing Emulex 4 Gb/s HBAs and IOCs may take advantage of robust features, such as BlockGuard(tm), which was designed by Emulex to provide end-to-end data protection. Emulex's BlockGuard implementation is based on the Data Integrity Field (DIF) industry standard and is key to enabling reliable delivery of data across the storage network. For more information about the Emulex 4 Gb/s family of HBAs and other products, visit www.emulex.com.
The Emulex 4Gb/s PCI Express and PCI-X 2.0 Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) are available from EMC through the EMC Select Program.
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 and Microsoft 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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