COSTA MESA, Calif., Feb. 22, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced that Quantum has qualified the Emulex LP10000ExDC and LP1050Ex PCI Express Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for use with Quantum's Fibre Channel SDLT 600 tape drives and within its PX720 Enterprise Libraries and DX-Series Disk-based Backup Systems. In qualifying Emulex's PCI Express HBAs, Quantum has ensured that the LP10000ExDC and LP1050Ex work seamlessly with Quantum's highest-performing tape devices and enterprise-class automated tape and disk-based systems to provide users with increased system performance, reliability and scalability.
"By qualifying Emulex's PCI Express HBAs, Quantum demonstrates its foresight for the benefits of emerging system bus architectures such as PCI Express, and Emulex once again highlights its integrity in delivering on its promise of product reliability, availability and scalability," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corp. "Like Emulex, Quantum has a long-standing reputation for identifying breakthrough, cutting-edge products that will deliver increased performance to users."
As the first to market with a PCI Express HBA and a charter member of the PCI Express working group, Emulex is well-versed in the benefits PCI Express brings to the marketplace. Emulex's LP10000ExDC and LP1050Ex PCI Express HBAs used within Quantum's tape devices and systems will enable state-of-the art performance and avoid a local I/O bottleneck. The HBAs will also provide the basis for a long-term roadmap for unmatched storage performance capability. More information on Emulex's breakthrough PCI Express HBAs can be found at http://www.emulex.com/products/fc/index.html.
"As part of our ongoing commitment to quality, Quantum's rigorous tests ensure that only reliable, high-performance components are used in our products," said Rob Pickell, vice president of worldwide marketing for Quantum's Storage Systems Business Unit. "Results of our testing show that the Emulex LP10000ExDC and LP1050Ex PCI Express HBAs have maintained superior performance throughout the testing period and therefore clearly demonstrate their capabilities within our storage environment."
The Emulex family of LightPulse(tm) HBAs offers a unique firmware-based architecture and operating system driver compatibility across Emulex's entire HBA product line, which provides customers with a simplified upgrade path, reduced management complexities and also ensures a lower total cost of ownership.
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, 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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