COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 25, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity, today announced that NEC has qualified the Emulex LightPulse(r) 4Gb/s LPe1105-N dual-channel HBA to connect NEC Express5800/120Bb-6 servers to storage infrastructures driven by Linux and Windows. The 4Gb/s LPe1105-N HBA complements the Emulex PCI Express and PCI-X 4Gb/s offerings from NEC and enables users to optimize connectivity performance and maximize storage reliability for NEC's most innovative blade server.
Like all Emulex HBAs, the LightPulse LPe1105-N HBA is equipped with a unique firmware-based architecture featuring seamless backward compatibility and independent performance upgrades to avoid costly hardware changes and ensure long-term investment protection. These capabilities provide end users with critical time and cost savings, especially when leveraged in large-scale enterprise environments with hundreds of SAN-attached servers, multiple operating systems or numerous data centers.
"NEC endorses the latest server and storage solutions leveraging 4Gb/s performance capabilities, which is validated by our recent deployment of Emulex's HBAs for our Express5800/120Bb-6 servers," said Kimihiko Fukuda, General Manager of Client and Server Division, NEC. "The integration of Emulex's LightPulse HBA, whose core technology is scalable and dependable, supports our vision of next-generation enterprise and REAL IT platforms."
Express5800/120Bb-6 is a next-generation enterprise platform integrating servers, networks and storage. As a platform product, the blade server is suitable for integrated storage and servers such as database servers, Web servers and application servers. Systems which use multiple HBA ports have the capability to support 40 percent more I/O traffic while using the same server resources.
"Together, Emulex and NEC have a long history of engineering leading-edge systems that provide the performance, scalability and reliability needed by enterprise and technical computing customers," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex. "This qualification affirms NEC's and Emulex's dedication to drive forward the market's best 4Gb/s SAN offerings."
For more information on Emulex 4Gb/s HBA performance advantages, visit http://www.emulex.com/products/fc/index.html.
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 Installation and Management - Unique tools designed
to automate installation and 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, intelligent storage platforms and embedded storage products, including switches, bridges, routers and I/O controllers, to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX) and 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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