SOPHIA, France, May 31, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- HP EMEA ENTERPRISE TECHNICAL SUMMIT -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that its 4Gb/s PCI Express I/O Controller (IOC) 3532 is the basis for a new HBA that will provide SAN connectivity for the HP Integrity family of servers running the HP-UX 11i operating system. This design win expands support for Emulex 4Gb/s SAN connectivity solutions across HP Integrity servers running Windows, Linux and HP-UX operating environments.
"This design win with HP's Integrity family of servers is an important milestone for Emulex's host server product line as it now boasts OEM design wins with all top-tier server vendor platforms, which reinforces Emulex's ongoing success in delivering best-in-class SAN connectivity," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex Corporation. "Leveraging Emulex IOC technology to connect HP Integrity servers to SANs enables users to benefit from the most scalable SAN connectivity available today."
Emulex's IOC technology meets the needs of multiple solution environments, ranging from blade servers to enterprise and midrange storage systems. The Emulex IOC 3532 architecture provides superior scalability, exceptional performance and integrated memory for enhanced reliability. Emulex's IOC 3532 features data corruption protection, a combination of parity, cyclic redundancy check (CRC), error-correcting code (ECC) and other advanced error-checking methods, ensuring end users a robust set of tools to protect their data.
"We are committed to providing Integrity customers with solutions that help reduce operational costs associated with their server environments," said Brian Cox, worldwide director of software marketing for Business Critical Systems at HP. "Working with Emulex to supply SAN connectivity solutions across multiple operating environments provides customers with superior scalability, flexibility and the most efficient IT infrastructures."
The Emulex IOC 3532 provides SAN connectivity for HP Integrity family of servers, including the rx2660, rx3600 and rx6600. The HP single-channel PCI Express 4Gb/s HBA, part number AD299A, and the HP dual-channel PCI Express 4Gb/s HBA, part number AD355A, have completed qualification and are the first PCI Express HBAs available to ship with HP Integrity servers. Both models include the Emulex IOC 3532. For the latest information about HP product availability and pricing for the AD299A and AD355A HBAs please visit http://h20341.www2.hp.com/integrity/cache/331424-0-0-225-121.html.
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Emulex Corporation creates enterprise-class products that intelligently connect storage, servers and networks. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, intelligent storage platforms and embedded storage products, including switches, bridges, routers and I/O controllers, to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX) and 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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