COSTA MESA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced its new Enterprise AutoPilot Installer(tm) software for Windows-based enterprise storage environments. Enterprise AutoPilot Installer has new automation capabilities that significantly reduce the time and complexity associated with deploying and upgrading Emulex host bus adapters (HBAs). Enterprise AutoPilot Installer integrates seamlessly with Emulex's HBAnyware(tm) centralized management utility and is available now to Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server users.
Like SMBs (small-to-medium businesses), large and mid-range enterprise storage environments want drivers and utilities that are easy to install, but due to their larger scale and complexity, enterprises also require more extensive configuration and installation options and capabilities. In both blade and rack server-based environments, Enterprise AutoPilot Installer integrates these requirements with a new wizard-based installation that gives Emulex HBA users a number of new benefits, including:
-- Single download executable with automatic selection of 32-bit or
64-bit drivers
-- Install or upgrade all HBAs on a local or remote system
-- Significantly streamline installation process (only 6 mouse
clicks for all HBAs installed in system)
-- Unique new "Software First" feature allows drivers and utilities
to be installed prior to physical HBA hardware installation
-- Supports unattended installations using parameters that are saved
in a configuration file
-- Allows storage managers to set a corporate standard for HBA
installation parameters, then distribute to remote locations-who
can then replicate the installation or upgrade with a single
command
-- Virtually eliminates requirements for re-boots
-- Provides immediate verification of completed installation
"With Enterprise AutoPilot Installer, Emulex has taken the same principles of simplicity and automation we delivered in our latest products for small-to-medium-sized businesses and migrated them to the enterprise environment," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex Corporation. "Enterprise storage environments are inherently more complex, so the simplification of the HBA installation process, and the ability to script parameters once and then leverage the work across hundreds of installations -- even before the HBA hardware is installed --is a tremendous value proposition for enterprise storage managers."
The creation of Enterprise AutoPilot Installer for Windows Server environments underscores Emulex's deep system-level expertise, and its commitment to designing products and technologies that leverage Microsoft's latest advances in storage technology, such as the Storport driver, VSS, VDS and MPIO.
"The availability of Emulex's Enterprise AutoPilot Installer is good news for Windows based enterprise storage users," said Dr. Claude Lorenson, technical product manager, storage technologies at Microsoft Corp. "Enterprise AutoPilot Installer's scripting and automation capabilities streamline and simplify the HBA installation process. At Microsoft, simplicity for SAN users of all sizes is a key focus, so we're pleased to see Emulex providing this new capability to our mutual customers."
Emulex Enterprise AutoPilot Installer -enabled driver kits are now available from the download section on the Emulex web site at www.emulex.com. To view a demonstration of the Emulex Enterprise AutoPilot Installer now, please click on the following link: http://www.emulex.com/demo/apdemo.html.
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 was named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies, and ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50.
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, Engenio, 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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