GARDEN GROVE, Calif., May 1, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- SERVER BLADE SUMMIT -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that its LPe11020-S, a 20-port Fibre Channel Network Express Module (NEM) for Sun Microsystems' Sun Blade 8000 Modular System, achieved unprecedented performance levels during a variety of industry-standard benchmark tests. During the evaluation, the LPe11020-S NEM achieved over 12.2 GB/s aggregate throughput on a fully populated blade chassis and the highest number of transactions, at more than 2.3 million IOPS.
"We're proud to recognize this record-breaking performance, which represents the highest Fibre Channel throughput available from a single Fibre Channel I/O module in the market today," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex. "The Sun Blade 8000, together with the Emulex LPe11020-S, enables enterprise organizations to fully leverage the scalability and power of server blades with the flexibility, availability and expandability of a Storage Area Network."
The Emulex LPe11020-S NEM is the industry's first high-density remote I/O solution, and provides SAN connectivity for up to 10 server blades. The LPe11020-S provides enterprise-class features such as non-disruptive hot plug, full redundancy, and high-performance scalable I/O. Further, the LPe11020-S NEM enables configuration changes, upgrades and maintenance to be performed without interrupting the server operation.
"The Sun Blade Independent I/O architecture delivers twice the I/O capacity via the only industry standards-based blade I/O design," said Michael McNerney, Director Blade Server Product Line, Sun Microsystems. "Combined with Emulex's Fibre Channel LPe11020-S for SAN connectivity, customers now have a powerful solution to effectively configure their systems and mix applications to eliminate downtime while deploying resources."
The Sun Blade 8000 and 8000 P chassis can scale I/O by adding up to four Emulex LPe11020-S Network Express Modules, providing additional bandwidth or redundancy. The technology offers hot-pluggable replacement and other enterprise benefits, including:
* Installation and Removal without Tools - The Emulex Fibre Channel LPe11020-S can be installed and removed without opening the chassis. * Scalability - A flexible chassis design using the LPe11020-S enables SAN connectivity and can be easily reconfigured as demands change. * Zero Thermal Impact to Blade Server -The LPe11020-S does not add to the thermal profile of a blade server.
Emulex is a preferred supplier of Fibre Channel Network Express Modules for the Sun Blade 8000 and 8000 P Modular Systems. For more information about purchasing the Emulex NEM from Sun, visit www.sun.com/servers/blades/8000 and ask for the Emulex LPe11020-S or Sun part number SG-XPCIE20FC-NEM-Z.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation creates enterprise-class products that intelligently connect storage, servers and networks. 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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