COSTA MESA, Calif., Feb. 15, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, and Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today announced the availability of the Emulex Open Source driver version 8.0 as part of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4) distribution.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 implements the latest Linux 2.6 kernel developed by the Open Source community, that delivers enhanced scalability, performance, robustness and manageability to a rapidly growing enterprise customer base. The integration of the Emulex 8.0 driver in this distribution represents the culmination of extensive engineering cooperation and cross-testing involving Red Hat, Emulex and several OEM partners.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 offers unprecedented capabilities for large-scale production deployment of Linux solutions, and Emulex Fibre Channel connectivity solutions are a primary element of these solutions," said Deborah Woods, Vice President, Product Management at Red Hat. "We are extremely satisfied with the high quality technical relationship we have achieved with Emulex engineering, and the result of our joint development efforts bring substantial benefits to Linux users and Open Source technologies."
Among the benefits brought by RHEL 4 to storage environments are enhanced binding of remote storage volumes, and centralized collection of Fibre Channel generated management events and status. The Emulex 8.0 driver is the first to fully support these capabilities, some of which have been enhanced by Emulex code contributions to the Linux reference kernel. Visit the Emulex booth No. 1612 at LinuxWorld for a live demonstration.
"With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the Linux operating system has evolved to offer a robust set of new storage connectivity capabilities, which Emulex is proud to have contributed to. Because of collaborative development efforts with Red Hat, Emulex is the first to fully support the enhanced capabilities of RHEL 4," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex Corp. "Emulex looks forward to ongoing partnership efforts with Linux technology leaders to support the remarkable success of its burgeoning enterprise users."
The Emulex 8.0 driver is available now as part of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 distributions. Production kits, including graphical and command line management tools, are planned for release by Emulex and its OEM partners.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions spanning host bus adapters, embedded storage switches, I/O controllers and SAN Storage Switches. Emulex ranked number 16 in the Deloitte 2004 Technology Fast 50 and most recently received recognition as one of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies.
The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex HBAs, embedded storage switching and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage solutions. The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(TM) HBAs and InSpeed(TM) embedded storage switching products, are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum Corp., StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. 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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