COSTA MESA, Calif., July 10, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity, today announced that Fujitsu Limited has selected the Emulex LightPulse(r) 4Gb/s PCI Express and PCI-X host bus adapters (HBAs) for use with the PRIMEQUEST 420, PRIMEQUEST 440 and PRIMEQUEST 480 enterprise servers.
The Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST high-end Itanium 2 servers are best suited for enterprises running mission-critical applications. They are also designed with the flexibility to handle mixed I/O environments and support Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs in both Linux and Windows operating environments. The Emulex 4Gb/s PCI Express and PCI-X dual channel HBAs function over 50 percent faster than competing HBAs in mixed I/O transactions, which is critical for large-scale enterprise applications. Typical applications for the Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST server series include large-scale database systems and online transaction processing environments.
"PRIMEQUEST servers support the ever-increasing need for business agility due to their inherent ability to adapt to planned or unplanned change-requests, which is important in enterprise installations," said Takato Noda, General Manager, Mission Critical IA Server Division at Fujitsu Limited. "Utilizing Emulex HBAs within PRIMEQUEST server environments helps to ensure the robustness, scalability and performance that end users demand. The additional SAN management capabilities derived from Emulex HBAs are also a key value proposition for our enterprise customers."
"Fujitsu has designed a highly-flexible, scalable server architecture and their selection of Emulex HBAs for SAN connectivity ensures complementary solutions for customers attaching the PRIMEQUEST servers to SANs," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex. "Integrating Emulex 4Gb/s PCI Express and PCI-X HBAs enables Fujitsu customers to leverage automatic speed negotiation capabilities, which ensures a seamless integration into existing 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel SAN environments. Additionally, Emulex hardware-independent HBA architecture provides simplified management and enables driver and firmware upgrades independent of the hardware."
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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