NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Storage Decisions -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced that the Emulex 4Gb/s LPe11002 and LPe1150 Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBAs) have been selected by HP for its family of HP ProLiant servers. This design win signifies the first 4Gb/s solution deployment leveraging a native PCI Express architecture.
Emulex's 4Gb/s connectivity solutions, including its LPe1150, a single-channel HBA targeted at midrange storage systems, and its LPe11002, a dual-channel HBA well-suited for enterprise storage systems, are also fully qualified and supported for use with the HP StorageWorks family of products. Emulex's 4Gb/s solutions, qualified for use within Windows and Linux operating environments. For Windows solutions, the LPe1150 and LPe11002 utilize both the Microsoft Storport Miniport and SCSIport Miniport drivers. Emulex's new 4 Gb/s HBAs provide customers with the ability to double the speed of today's 2Gb/s storage networks, while leveraging the flexible Emulex firmware-based architecture to ensure backwards compatibility and a seamless migration path.
"Emulex is a pioneering force in the areas of 4Gb/s and PCI Express, we're pleased that HP has chosen to offer Emulex HBAs for their HP ProLiant server line," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex Corporation. "Emulex continues to drive the transition to 4Gb/s by working with innovative customers and partners, such as HP, to deliver unsurpassed speed and bandwidth to our end users. We plan to continue working closely with HP to deliver the next generation products and technologies that our mutual customers have come to depend on for mission-critical data center environments."
"Integrating the Emulex 4Gb/s suite of HBAs into the StorageWorks portfolio is another step for HP on the road to delivering 4Gb/s technology to help customers put their information to work with efficient and reliable network storage solutions," said Kyle Fitze, director of SAN marketing, StorageWorks Division, HP.
Emulex Corporation will be demonstrating its latest 4 Gb/s technology within Linux environments at Storage Decisions in New York City from September 28th -- 30th at booth number 303.
About the Emulex 4Gb/s Family of SAN Connectivity Solutions
Emulex boasts a broad range of production available 4Gb/s SAN connectivity solutions, including HBAs, I/O Controllers (IOCs) and embedded storage switches. The Emulex suite of 4Gb/s infrastructure solutions includes general availability of its 4Gb/s LightPulse Fibre Channel HBAs and IOCs for both PCI-X 2.0 and PCI Express-based servers. Designed to meet the needs of multiple solution environments, ranging from blade servers to enterprise and midrange storage systems, Emulex's 4Gb/s products feature the latest ARM processor and integrated memory to maximize efficiency in the most data-intensive environments.
Customers utilizing Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs and IOCs may take advantage of robust features, such as BlockGuard(tm), which was designed by Emulex to provide end-to-end data protection. Emulex's BlockGuard implementation is based on the Data Integrity Field (DIF) industry standard and is key to enabling reliable delivery of data across the storage network. For more information about the Emulex 4Gb/s family of HBAs and other products, visit www.emulex.com.
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(r) 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. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at www.emulex.com
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