COSTA MESA, Calif., May 9, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced its Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and drivers are qualified for use with AMD Opteron(tm) processors with Direct Connect Architecture within Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions. The Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions include 64-bit Emulex Storport HBA drivers.
The Emulex Storport driver supports the entire family of LightPulse HBAs, including the recently announced 4 Gb/s offerings, and it was designed to complement the company's Service Level Interface (SLI), firmware-upgradeable HBA architecture design. This ensures that Emulex HBA users can derive the maximum level of benefits offered by Storport today while seamlessly integrating future updates and functionality.
"The unveiling of our Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions is a major accomplishment, facilitated in part by the close cooperation of our industry alliances, including AMD (NYSE:AMD) and Emulex," said Dr. Claude Lorenson, senior product manager of the Windows Server Division at Microsoft Corporation. "Since the 64-bit Emulex HBA drivers are available now, customers can immediately leverage the benefits of the utilizing Emulex SAN connectivity solutions within AMD64 technology-based systems running in Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition operating environments."
"The enhanced performance of Windows-based 64-bit environments is at the leading edge of the server and storage industry, and Emulex and AMD64 technology are helping pave the way for rapid adoption," said Pat Patla, director, server/workstation marketing, Microprocessor Solutions Sector, AMD. "Emulex's innovative HBA design gives customers a rapid and seamless upgrade path. As a result, companies can continue to rely on systems utilizing AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture and products from Emulex and Microsoft for improved I/O to meet their most demanding enterprise server and storage applications."
"Emulex is working closely with AMD and Microsoft to ensure broad deployment of native 64-bit solutions and we are confident our Storport driver, designed specifically for Windows Server 2003 operating environments, provides a robust implementation to support the most intensive storage networking environments," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corp. "We are confident that the release of Microsoft's Windows x64 Editions will help drive the broad adoption of new 64-bit systems."
The robust features of Emulex's LightPulse HBAs provide the flexibility and broad interoperability needed for complex, highly scalable heterogeneous SANs. Emulex solutions include a unique firmware architecture that is fully software compatible with previous generations of the company's HBAs. Learn more about AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture at www.amd.com/opteron.
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. 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 www.emulex.com
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