COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 3, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced that the company is first to deploy 4 Gb/s SAN connectivity solutions to its worldwide channel distribution partners. This effort underscores both the accelerated pace of 4 Gb/s product availability and Emulex's leadership position in bringing 4 Gb/s technologies to market.
With general availability of its 4 Gb/s family of Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), Emulex is enabling its distribution partners worldwide, including ACAL, Bell Microproducts, Info X, Tech Data and Tokyo Electron Limited, to take a leadership role in delivering next generation SAN technologies.
"Emulex is once again leveraging its first-to-market position to ensure its partners and customers remain at the forefront of next generation technologies, such as 4 Gb/s," said Fred Gill, executive vice president of worldwide sales, Emulex Corp. "Emulex continues to aggressively support its channel partners through training and incentive programs, which bring added value to their business efforts, while reinforcing channel leadership."
The Emulex 4 Gb/s family of HBAs, including the LP11000 and LPe11000, offer twice the speed and performance of 2 Gb/s host bus adapters, while delivering seamless backwards compatibility with existing 2 Gb/s and 1 Gb/s SANs. In addition, the LP11000 and LPe11000 are available for use within PCI-X 2.0 and PCI Express systems, which are new bus architectures that increase bandwidth performance.
Emulex continually invests in its distributors and resellers via the company's various channel initiatives, such as the "Perfect 10" by providing sales tools that include technical training, presentations and exclusive promotional programs. Today, both the Emulex LP11000 and the LP1150 HBAs have been delivered to the company's key authorized resellers.
Supporting Comments from Emulex Distribution Partners
"Our partnership with Emulex allows ACAL to deliver scalable and cost-efficient storage networking solutions to our customers throughout EMEA, and also demonstrates the two companies' commitment to providing best-in-class solutions, while continuing to build its presence in the channel," said Aidan Fitzgerald, Sales Director, ACAL Storage Networking. "The addition of Emulex's 4 Gb/s HBAs to ACAL's portfolio of storage networking offerings is extremely appealing to our customers looking to deploy highly-scalable and cost-efficient SANs."
"Today's explosive growth of data requires that resellers have access to leading edge SAN solutions that deliver an optimum level of performance and business continuity," said Pete Peterson, Tech Data's vice president of Systems Product Marketing. "Innovative SAN technologies from leading manufacturers like Emulex help resellers develop those data storage solutions that enable their customers to quickly store, access and manage their information resources."
"Tokyo Electron has a longstanding partnership with Emulex to deliver reliable, high performance SAN connectivity solutions to the Japanese market. Our customers benefit greatly from the time-to-market advantage and seamless transition that Emulex provides when migrating to next generation SAN technologies, such as 4Gb/s," said Vic Amano, VP & General Manager of Computer Network Division, Tokyo Electron Limited. "Working with industry leaders, such as Emulex, also enables Tokyo Electron to remain at the forefront of the storage industry by offering the leading-edge solutions that contribute to the broad deployment of next generation 4Gb/s storage networking solutions."
The Emulex family of HBAs offers 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. Emulex also offers a robust suite of HBA installation and management tools, including Enterprise AutoPilot Installer, EZPilot and HBAnyware, which incorporates driver-based technology to enable complete management and upgrades of Emulex HBAs anywhere in a SAN from a single console. For more information on Emulex's family of 4 Gb/s products, please 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
EMULEX | We network storage
"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; fluctuation in the growth of Fibre Channel and IP markets; changes in economic conditions or changes in end-user demand for technology solutions; fluctuations or delays in customer orders; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products; Emulex's ability to gain market acceptance for its products; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on third-party suppliers. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
The Emulex Corporation company logo can be found at http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=1744