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EMULEX 4Gb/s HBAs Qualified for Use With New EMC CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale Series
Emulex Delivers Industry-Leading 4Gb/s Performance; SAN Connectivity Complements Latest EMC Networked Storage Solutions
COSTA MESA, Calif., June 14, 2006 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX), the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity, today announced that EMC Corporation has qualified Emulex's 4Gb/s PCI-Express and PCI-X host bus adapters (HBAs) as compatible with the new EMC® CLARiiON® CX3 UltraScale™ series of networked storage systems. The HBAs, which include Emulex's LP11002-E, LP11000-SUN-E, LP1150-E, LPe11002-E, LPe11000SUN-E and LPe1150-E will help provide customers with maximum storage-area network (SAN) performance and connectivity and offer superior quality, reliability, efficient installation and management.
The Emulex 4Gb/s PCI Express and PCI-X HBAs are fully EMC E-Lab™ Tested for deployment in SAN environments with the new CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series storage arrays in Solaris, Windows and Linux operating environments and are available immediately through the EMC Select program. The new CLARiiON CX3-20, CX3-40 and CX3-80 systems feature full end-to-end 4Gb/s technology and enable customers to scale both performance and capacity, while consolidating multiple tiers of information onto a single storage array. EMC's rigorous E-Lab testing and qualification process reinforces the quality Emulex offers that customers and partners have come to rely on. The EMC Select program provides customers with a convenient, single source for their total storage needs.
"EMC's qualification of 4Gb/s SAN components from leading vendors like Emulex helps customers take advantage of the full 4Gb/s performance of the EMC CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series in a networked storage environment," said Marty Lans, Senior Director of Storage Network Marketing at EMC. "The EMC E-Lab provides the most thorough and rigorous testing in the industry. EMC qualification of the Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs and EMC Select availability broadens the range of leading high performance SAN connectivity solutions available to customers."
"We worked closely with EMC to ensure successful testing and qualification of Emulex's 4Gb/s HBAs for host connectivity to the new CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series to ensure that customers would have ready access to the full complement of our highly robust 4Gb/s SAN connectivity solutions," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex Corporation. "This qualification and availability through EMC Select builds on our longstanding relationship with EMC and helps ensure seamless delivery of best-in-class storage solutions to our mutual customers."
Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs ~ Generations Ahead
Emulex LightPulse HBAs leverage seven generations of advanced, field-proven technology, providing customers with the highest quality SAN connectivity solutions that the world's leading enterprises have come to rely upon. With a unique firmware upgradeable architecture, common driver model and centralized management tools for simplified installation and deployment, Emulex HBAs are simply "Generations Ahead" of competing solutions. The Emulex suite of Fibre Channel HBAs offers the following industry-leading features and benefits:
- Superior Quality and Reliability - Field-proven, single-chip design with a combination of parity and other advanced error checking methods to validate the integrity of data blocks.
- Most Efficient Installation and Management - Unique tools designed to automate installation and provide local and remote HBA configuration and management. The Emulex architecture allows complete independence of device drivers from HBA hardware and firmware, which translates into time- and cost-savings by eliminating the need to reboot during most configuration changes and providing compatibility across HBA generations.
- Maximum SAN Performance - Experience superior full-duplex data throughput and I/O processing, ideal for real-world application environments. Dynamic Frame Multiplexing is another exclusive Emulex feature designed to consistently provide superior performance in mixed workload environments, such as disk and tape back-up.
- Fastest Diagnosis and Recovery - Ensures fast and efficient SAN troubleshooting with comprehensive diagnostics, detailed event logging and tracing.
- Broadest Enterprise Deployments - With the largest installed base of HBAs, Emulex SAN connectivity solutions are trusted by the world's largest, mission-critical enterprises.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity and a leading provider of critical building blocks for intelligent data center infrastructure solutions. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, embedded storage switching, intelligent storage platforms and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions. Emulex ranked number 19 in the Deloitte 2005 Technology Fast 50 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX). 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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