COSTA MESA, Calif., May 14, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Emulex Corporation was awarded best Computer Storage Product for its VMPilot(tm) management application at AeA's 14th Annual High-Tech Innovation Awards. The High-Tech Innovation Awards were presented by the Orange County and Inland Empire Council of AeA on the evening of May 10 honoring Southern California's top innovators in technology and education.
Emulex VMPilot is a new management software application designed for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 environments. Emulex VMPilot works with Emulex's family of 4Gb/s LightPulse(r) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) and allows end users to maintain SAN best practices when deploying a virtualized server environment.
"This award further validates our leadership position in creating and developing innovative products for the rapidly-growing virtualization market and reinforces our strong partnerships with leading virtualization suppliers, such as Microsoft," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corporation. "VMPilot streamlines the deployment of data center virtualization and is designed to enable virtual machine migration without reconfiguring storage or copying files, providing time- and cost-savings to our customers."
In addition, Emulex's Model 765 Intelligent Services Platform was also a finalist in the Computer Storage category. Emulex Model 765 provides hardware acceleration for SAN based storage virtualization management applications and services.
The 14th Annual High-Tech Innovation Awards were presented at the Fairmont Hotel in Newport Beach on May 10, 2007. AeA set record levels for nominations and attendance with more than 125 nominations received and 20 innovators recognized. The sold-out dinner and awards ceremony drew nearly 600 luminaries from local high-tech companies, financial and government institutions as well as academic leaders, educators, students, investors and media affiliates.
"AeA received a record number of nominations and the level of innovation was truly impressive," said Tim Jemal, AeA executive director for Orange County and the Inland Empire. "AeA congratulates Emulex Corporation and its employees for being selected best Computer Storage Product."
The awards recognized local companies, individuals and products in the technology field that drive innovation in Orange County and the Inland Empire. In addition, AeA recognized educators and students for their innovative use of math, science and technology in the classroom and the community in conjunction with Project Tomorrow, the nation's leading education nonprofit group focused on preparing today's students to be tomorrow's innovators. Emulex was the exclusive sponsor of the Project Tomorrow Innovation in Education Awards at the event.
For a recap of the evening's festivities, visit www.aeanet.org/orangecounty.
About AeA
AeA is the largest high-tech trade association in the U.S. and represents all segments of the technology industry. Our mission is to help our member companies grow and improve their business. Internationally, AeA represents 2,500 companies with 1.8 million employees. In Orange County & the Inland Empire, AeA represents 140 member companies with worldwide revenue of more than $8 billion and more than 160,000 employees in the United States and globally. Information on the Orange County & Inland Empire Council can be found at www.aeanet.org/orangecounty.
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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