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Press Contact: Robin Austin, Director, Public Relations , 714-885-3462
Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs Certified for Symantec Storage Foundation 5.0
Industry-Leading Fibre Channel HBAs Deliver High-Performance, Enterprise-Class Functionality for New Symantec Storage Products
COSTA MESA, Calif., August 17, 2006 - Emulex® Corporation (NYSE:ELX), one of the most trusted names in storage networking connectivity, today announced that its industry-leading 4Gb/s PCI-X and PCI Express connectivity solutions have completed hardware qualification testing in the Symantec Technology Enabled Program for Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0.
Working closely with the Symantec Technology Enabled Program ensures that customers deploying the latest Symantec suite of storage software solutions can leverage fully supported Emulex host bus adapters (HBAs) for robust SAN connectivity.
Storage Foundation 5.0 provides data center-wide visibility into the entire storage environment across all major application, server, operating system and storage platforms. Storage Foundation 5.0 provides a standard set of integrated tools to manage explosive data growth, optimize storage hardware investments, provide comprehensive data protection and rapidly adapt to changing business requirements.
Enterprises increasingly deploy applications that require Symantec's software solutions to help power storage management, backup and recovery, while also accommodating high-availability applications that demand large amounts of storage. When combined with the Storage Foundation, NetBackup, Backup Exec and CommandCentral storage products, Emulex HBAs provide flexible, scalable connectivity to consolidated storage. Emulex products that satisfied comprehensive testing to earn hardware qualification with Symantec's suite of storage management solutions include the 4Gb/s single-channel LP1150, LP11000, LPe1150 and LPe11000 HBAs, along with dual-channel LP11002 and LPe11002 HBAs. Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs are designed for both native PCI Express and PCI-X 2.0 architectures.
"Qualifying Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs for use with Storage Foundation 5.0 provides customers with trusted, robust connectivity solutions for their networked storage environments - enabling advanced storage management and high availability," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex Corporation. "This milestone builds on our relationship with Symantec, and ensures delivery of best-in-class storage solutions to both small- and medium-sized customers, along with the most data-intensive enterprise customers."
"It is important for our customers to have a broad choice of high-performance SAN solutions in the market that not only meet their needs today, but also provide an easy migration path for scaling beyond current requirements," said Jeff Reed, director of product management, Data Center Management Group, Symantec. "The family of Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs add significant value to our customers looking to benefit from high-performance, reliable SAN connectivity."
Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs ~ Generations Ahead
Emulex LightPulseŽ 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 one of the most trusted names in storage networking connectivity. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, embedded storage switching and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage 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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"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.
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