COSTA MESA, Calif., July 3, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced general availability of its Emulex LightPulse LP1105-BC dual-channel HBA for use in the IBM BladeCenter. The Emulex LP1105-BC (IBM part no. 39Y9186) is designed to work in Windows, Linux and AIX operating systems.
"IBM has worked closely with Emulex to deploy a 4Gb/s SAN connectivity solution for blade servers," said Tim Dougherty, director of IBM BladeCenter and xSeries product marketing. "With the increasing number of Emulex HBAs shipped into IBM server environments, the general availability of the Emulex LP1105-BC fully complements the IBM BladeCenter ecosystem and will reinforce the reliability and management features that customers have come to expect from both companies."
The Emulex 4Gb/s SFF Fibre Channel expansion card is the only single-chip FC solution for BladeCenter and delivers a high level of reliability and performance in the most demanding enterprise environments. Emulex's driver support enables the LP1105-BC to be effectively applied across the maximum range of storage networking solutions. Integrated with IBM Director, the Emulex management software called HBAnyware, provides a seamless and efficient HBA installation and management suite for its family of LightPulse Fibre Channel host bus adapters. The unique firmware upgradeable architecture provides investment protection, and Emulex's single HBA driver solution helps to dramatically simplify SAN management.
"Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs provide the unique flexibility, reliability and performance to complement the new and advanced server architectures, such as IBM BladeCenter," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex. "Now integrated with IBM BladeCenter, the Emulex LP1105-BC is designed to function effectively across multiple operating systems, simplifying infrastructure system manageability and lowering costs for end users."
Additionally, the Emulex 2Gb/s family of HBAs are qualified for use within the IBM xSeries server family. For more information on the Emulex LightPulse(r) family of HBAs, including the Emulex LP1105-BC, please visit http://www.emulex.com.
Emulex is a member of Blade.org, an industry collaboration dedicated to creating interoperable technologies that meet the needs of customers in all industries. Emulex joined industry leaders as a member of Blade.org in February 2006.
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, 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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