COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 4, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and embedded storage switches, announced today that its market-leading HBAs have been selected for use in Microsoft Technology Centers throughout the U.S. Microsoft Technology Centers provide customers with a state of the art environment, access to industry leading partners and Microsoft technical experts. Together these resources assist enterprise customers in evaluating, architecting and proving out technology solutions. The Emulex LightPulse(tm) LP10000 and LP10000DC HBAs were selected by Microsoft for high performance connectivity and are now fully integrated into SAN solutions at Microsoft Technology Centers in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Redmond and Silicon Valley.
"Emulex HBAs are a solid connectivity solution for Windows-based SANs, and the robust suite of features and industry-leading interoperability enables a broad array of equipment to be seamlessly integrated into high performance data centers," said Adam Hecktman, director, Microsoft Technology Center-Chicago. "The flexible Emulex HBA architecture coupled with Microsoft operating environments provides a solution that meets the performance and feature set needs of SAN customers."
"Microsoft Technology Center visitors will experience the benefits of utilizing Emulex and Microsoft networked storage solutions, and realize the value of integrating reliable, highly scalable heterogeneous SAN solutions," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex. "We have a longstanding relationship with Microsoft to deliver best-in-class solutions and our goal is to continue working closely to deploy both current and next generation storage products." Emulex HBAs support the Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows NT operating systems, including the Storport driver released with the Windows Server 2003 platform. The Microsoft Storport driver, coupled with the Emulex Storport miniport HBA driver, helps solution providers to deliver greater storage resource manageability. Emulex HBAs also support Windows Server 2003 storage technologies including Virtual Disk service (VDS), Volume Shadow Copy service (VSS), and Multi-Path I/O (MPIO). For more information, visit http://www.emulex.com/partners/strategic/microsoft.html.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world leader in Fibre Channel HBAs and delivers a broad range of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems. Emulex ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50.
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(tm) 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. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. 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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