COSTA MESA, Calif., June 14, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity, today announced its LightPulse(r) 4Gb/s LPe1105 Dual Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) will enable SAN connectivity for the new HP BladeSystem c-Class.
Working with HP as a HP BladeSystem Solution Builder Program member, Emulex designed the 4Gb/s LPe1105-HP HBA specifically for integration into the HP BladeSystem c-Class. This complements the broad array of both PCI Express and PCI-X 4Gb/s Emulex HBAs supported and available now from HP. The innovation inherent to the HP BladeSystem, coupled with Emulex SAN connectivity, enables customers to gain the benefits of high performance SAN storage in an infrastructure that is less costly, more energy efficient, easier to change and takes less time to manage.
The Emulex LightPulse LPe1105 HBA (HP Part No. 403621-B21) for HP BladeSystem c-Class is equipped with a unique firmware-based architecture featuring simple driver management, seamless backward compatibility and independent upgrades to avoid costly hardware changes and ensure long-term investment protection. The LightPulse LPe1105-HP HBA is supported within Linux and Windows environments and provides HP BladeSystem with leading reliability and performance to maximize enterprise functionality.
"As seen in HP's ProLiant and Integrity server families, and now in the new HP BladeSystem, leveraging Emulex's 4Gb/s HBAs significantly increases SAN value by ensuring the most advanced and trusted connectivity solutions," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex. "This design win affirms the longstanding commitment from Emulex and HP to develop and deploy the market's leading server and SAN offerings."
"Designed to deliver the best-run IT infrastructure out of the box, the new HP BladeSystem offers tremendous cost savings and the flexibility to change with ever-demanding needs of IT services," said Paul Miller, vice president, marketing, Industry Standard Servers and HP BladeSystem. "We are confident HP BladeSystem will shape the architectural landscape for server blades going forward, and it is critical that HP work closely with its partners, like Emulex, to ensure SAN ecosystem support meets our customers' needs for robust and reliable data center solutions."
Taking a total systems approach to design, the new HP BladeSystem goes beyond solving server issues to providing a complete IT solution within a single box. Using advanced management tools to integrate computing, storage, power, and networking resources, HP BladeSystem functions as a virtualized, self-aware, automated environment. These infrastructures are the next phase of industry-standard architectures and provide a more efficient way to build an infrastructure optimized for change, efficiency, scalability and most importantly, cost savings.
Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs -- Generations Ahead
Emulex LightPulse HBAs leverage seven generations of advanced, field-proven technology, providing customers with the highest quality SAN connectivity solutions that the world's leading enterprises have come to rely upon. With a unique firmware upgradeable architecture, common driver model and centralized management tools for simplified installation and deployment, Emulex HBAs are simply "Generations Ahead" of competing solutions. The Emulex suite of Fibre Channel HBAs offers the following industry-leading features and benefits:
-- Superior Quality and Reliability -- Field-proven, single-chip
design with a combination of parity and other advanced error
checking methods to validate the integrity of data blocks.
-- Most Efficient Management -- Unique tools designed to provide
local and remote HBA configuration and management. The Emulex
architecture allows complete independence of device drivers from
HBA hardware and firmware, which translates into time- and
cost-savings by eliminating the need to reboot during most
configuration changes and providing compatibility across
HBA generations.
-- Maximum SAN Performance -- Experience superior full-duplex data
throughput and I/O processing, ideal for real-world application
environments. Dynamic Frame Multiplexing is another exclusive
Emulex feature designed to consistently provide superior
performance in mixed workload environments, such as disk and
tape back-up.
-- Fastest Diagnosis and Recovery -- Ensures fast and efficient SAN
troubleshooting with comprehensive diagnostics, detailed event
logging and tracing.
-- Broadest Enterprise Deployments -- With the largest installed base
of HBAs, Emulex SAN connectivity solutions are trusted by the
world's largest, mission-critical enterprises.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity and a leading provider of critical building blocks for intelligent data center infrastructure solutions. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, embedded storage switching, intelligent storage platforms and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions. Emulex ranked number 19 in the Deloitte 2005 Technology Fast 50 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX). 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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