COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 19, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced its Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) driver is the first to be accepted and publicly available within the OpenSolaris(tm) project. The open source process provides a highly recognized assurance of quality and long-term support for leading technologies, such as innovative SAN connectivity solutions.
Sponsored by Sun Microsystems, the OpenSolaris project is an open source community and a place for collaboration and conversation around open source technologies. It is a nexus for community developments effort where developers can collaborate on designing and improving operating system technology.
"Emulex continues to work closely with Sun to lead the way in defining and implementing SAN connectivity for its open source environment," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corporation. "We are committed to bringing technology advancements to the OpenSolaris community and Emulex's HBA driver for OpenSolaris provides enterprise scalability, maximum performance and superior quality and reliability."
Sun and Emulex are committed to delivering open source products that provide the superior enterprise-class functionality that end user customers expect from the two companies. Emulex's enterprise-class HBAs leverage seven generations of advanced, field-proven technologies to deliver a distinctive set of benefits that are relied upon by the world's largest enterprises, including a unique firmware upgradeable architecture, driver compatibility across all product generations, superior full-duplex data throughput and exclusive frame-level multiplexing.
"Emulex is breaking new ground by donating its driver code for Fibre Channel HBAs," said Nigel Dessau, senior vice president, marketing and business operations, Storage Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Their commitment to open source, open standards and heterogeneous storage enables customers to take control of their data centers."
Access to Emulex's HBA driver is possible by joining the Sun OpenSolaris project and downloading it from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/emulex/.
Emulex HBAs are qualified and supported for SAN connectivity across a broad range of Sun server and storage systems, including Sun SPARC(r) Enterprise, Sun Blade, Sun Fire, Netra and StorageTek. For more information about purchasing Emulex HBAs for Sun solutions, visit http://www.emulex.com/sun/index.jsp.
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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