EMC is First
Storage Provider to Qualify the Emulex PCI-X Connectivity
Solutions
COSTA MESA,
Calif., August 5, 2002 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX), the
world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters
(HBAs), announced today that EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) has
qualified the Emulex LightPulse LP9802 and LP982 PCI-X HBAs as
E-Lab TestedTM for use with the company's enterprise
storage systems. EMC's newest qualifications include Emulex HBAs
for use with EMC's Symmetrix® Enterprise Storage systems in
Windows and Linux environments, and EMC CLARiiON Enterprise
Storage systems for Windows.
"Emulex's
PCI-X host bus adapters offer reliable connectivity and more
choices for our customers," said Chuck Hollis, EMC's vice
president of markets and products. "EMC has qualified the
same HBAs in our E-Labs for both Symmetrix and CLARiiON
Enterprise Storage systems, making storage infrastructure
simpler and more manageable for our customers."
In addition to
the LP9802 and LP982 designation, EMC has also recently
qualified the Emulex LightPulse 2Gb/s LP9002DC dual channel HBA
as E-Lab TestedTM for use with its Symmetrix® and
CLARiiON® Enterprise Storage systems in Solaris environments.
EMC's E-Lab
Tested qualification process is a series of exhaustive
functionality and reliability tests to ensure the
interoperability of all components that make up a multi-vendor
information storage network. In EMC's E-Labs, engineers
replicate customer environments using 2,600 terabytes of storage
across nearly five acres of floor space. E-Lab Tested means that
Emulex HBAs are fully interoperable with EMC information storage
systems, enabling customers to deploy heterogeneous storage
networks, quickly, reliably and cost-effectively.
The Emulex
family of HBAs offers firmware upgradeability to protect
customers' investments and a unique driver architecture that
enables compatibility of a single driver across Emulex's entire
product line, which significantly reduces SAN management
complexity while lowering the customer's total cost of
ownership. In addition, the Emulex LP9802 and mid-range LP982
feature the Company's new Pegasus ASIC - a highly integrated,
internally developed fifth generation Fibre Channel controller.
The Emulex PCI-X HBAs also feature a unique architecture, which
delivers scalability and high performance, while continuing
Emulex's long tradition of ensuring 100 percent backwards
compatibility, simplified management and upgradeability. The
Emulex LP9802 and LP982 also offer an open standards-based
management application programming interface (API), which
enables customers to seamlessly integrate support for Emulex's
driver, as well as develop and implement advanced SAN management
services using Emulex HBAs.
"PCI-X
server platforms are driving performance and accessibility to
the next level," said Mike Smith, executive vice president
of Worldwide Marketing at Emulex. "EMC's enterprise storage
systems demand equally robust PCI-X HBAs, and Emulex remains
focused on improving and enhancing its HBA technology with each
generation. The Emulex LP9802 and LP982 offer unprecedented
performance and reliability, which demonstrates the company's
commitment to providing its customers with world-class
connectivity solutions."
EMC's Symmetrix
and CLARiiON Enterprise Storage systems offer superior
performance, reliability and manageability. EMC's highly
available, scalable information storage platforms are the
engines for providing capacity, data integrity, and
storage-related functionality. Robust software and microcode
enable continuous access to all information-regardless of where
it originated or what form it's in.
The Emulex
Family of Host Bus Adapters
The Emulex
family of HBAs offers high performance, standards-based
connectivity solutions for both Fibre Channel and Internet
protocol (IP) storage networking environments. Emulex host bus
adapters provide a unique combination of features required for
mission-critical enterprise environments that deliver
reliability, high bandwidth, server CPU offload, low latency and
scalable connectivity. Emulex HBAs also offer a unique driver
architecture that enables compatibility of a single operating
system driver across Emulex's entire product line and a
firmware-based architecture. These features help to lower the
customer's total cost of ownership and reduce management
complexity, while enabling a seamless migration path to next
generation technologies. For information about how Emulex HBAs
increase SAN productivity and efficiency, visit the Emulex
website and download the IDC whitepaper titled, Measuring the
HBA's Role in SAN Management.
The Emulex
LightPulse family of Fibre Channel HBAs offers full fabric
support, high data integrity, full-duplex operation, data
buffering for up to 100km of cabling and support for all Fibre
Channel topologies. The Emulex LightPulse family of Fibre
Channel products includes the 2Gb/s LP9802 and LP982 PCI-X HBAs,
the LP9002L PCI HBAs, the LP9002C CompactPCI HBA, the LP9002S
SBus-based HBA and the market-leading LP8000. For more
information on the Emulex product families, visit www.emulex.com.
About Emulex
Emulex
Corporation is a leading supplier and developer of storage
networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP
networking technologies. The Emulex product families 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 Siemens, Groupe
Bull, Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC,
Network Appliance and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes
industry leaders Brocade, INRANGE, Intel, Legato, McDATA,
Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners.
Emulex markets
to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling
organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners,
including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Info-X, Netmarks,
Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. 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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