COSTA MESA, Calif., May 23, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced general availability of its LP1005DC, a new Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) designed specifically for IBM eServer BladeCenter environments. Emulex will showcase the LP1005DC within the IBM eServer BladeCenter at this week's Storage Decisions conference and exhibit, from May 25-27 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers in Chicago, IL.
The Emulex LP1005DC enables IBM customers, who have already standardized on Emulex HBAs for SAN connectivity, to continue utilizing the reliable and proven Emulex infrastructure solutions they have come to rely on. The LP1005DC is a dual channel, high performance SAN connectivity solution designed for use within the IBM BladeCenter, and is fully driver compatible with Emulex's entire line of market-leading HBAs, enabling end users to seamlessly migrate their server environments to IBM BladeCenter solutions. The Emulex LP1005DC is qualified for use with the IBM BladeCenter JS20, HS20 and HS40 in Windows and Linux operating system environments.
"IBM's leadership position in the blade market is driving an increasing need for blade-based connectivity to storage networks. Because of the BladeCenter open specification program, our business partners have been able to react quickly to meet strong end-user demand for SAN ecosystem solutions, such as the Emulex LP1005DC HBA for IBM eServer BladeCenter environments," said Juhi Jotwani, director of IBM eServer BladeCenter Alliances. "Working with our IBM Business Partners via the open specification program has helped to enable Emulex to address the demands of its large installed base of IBM customers."
"Blade servers offer users a number of distinct benefits, including potentially more efficient management, lower costs and reduced cabling requirements," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex. "As an IBM Business Partner in the IBM BladeCenter space, Emulex has collaborated with IBM to address a critical customer need for Emulex-based SAN connectivity within the BladeCenter solution."
With more than 500,000 HBAs already shipped into IBM environments, Emulex is the SAN connectivity solution of choice for IT managers at leading data centers worldwide. The availability of the LP1005DC for the IBM eServer BladeCenter will enable these customers to incorporate BladeCenter solutions seamlessly into their existing SAN environments, utilizing common drivers and a familiar HBA architecture.
The Emulex LP1005DC provides a unique level of firmware flexibility and driver compatibility, enabling an easy-to-manage, scalable implementation of the IBM BladeCenter SAN solution. Built on the sixth generation Fibre Channel Thor controller for enterprise-class performance, the Emulex LP1005DC provides the same features and capabilities as Emulex's standard form factor PCI HBAs, including Emulex's unique firmware-based architecture, which allows for new features and other upgrades without requiring costly hardware replacements. The LP1005DC also provides driver compatibility with previously installed Emulex HBAs, enabling end users of Emulex HBAs in IBM installations to seamlessly migrate to the BladeCenter solution.
The Emulex LP1005DC also offers users the flexibility to leverage Emulex's centralized HBA management suite, HBAnyware(tm). HBAnyware is driver-based technology that enables the discovery and complete management of HBAs within the SAN, reducing total cost of ownership and planned downtime while enabling sophisticated management capabilities such as remote firmware upgrades from a single console anywhere in a SAN.
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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