COSTA MESA, Calif., May 8, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that EMC Corporation has qualified the Emulex LightPulse(r) LPe12000 family of 8Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for the EMC(r) CLARiiON(r), EMC Celerra(r) and EMC Symmetrix(r) networked storage system families. Emulex 8Gb/s HBAs, which are available from EMC through EMC Select, provide customers with new performance, advanced virtualization and security features, while maintaining backward compatibility with existing 4Gb/s and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel products.
"Once again, Emulex is teaming with EMC to deliver technology advances into the storage industry. The availability of next generation connectivity solutions validates our commitment to driving the transition to 8Gb/s Fibre Channel," said Mike Smith, executive vice president, Emulex Corporation. "Further, EMC's rigorous E-Lab testing and qualification process reinforces our best-in-class technology."
Emulex 8Gb/s HBAs are fully EMC E-Lab(tm) Tested for deployment in SAN environments with CLARiiON, Celerra and Symmetrix networked storage systems. The complete Emulex LPe12000 family of 8Gb/s HBAs are now available through the EMC Select program.
"With today's announcement, our customers can now take advantage of the new features that Emulex 8Gb/s HBAs offer. Leveraging Emulex for SAN connectivity will help ensure a seamless transition experience as IT managers upgrade from 2Gb/s or 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs in their EMC environments," said Justin Bartinoski, manager of the EMC Select Program, EMC. "Through EMC Select, we offer customers a wide-range of Emulex SAN connectivity solutions for our market leading networked storage systems."
The Emulex LPe12000 family of 8Gb/s HBAs, supported by EMC includes the dual channel LPe12002, single channel LPe12000 and midrange LPe1250. These new HBAs offer twice the performance of today's leading products, providing the I/O scalability necessary to support an increase in the number of applications running on a virtualized server. Additionally, Emulex 8Gb/s HBAs provide the increased I/O processing speed and throughput needed by large business-critical databases and transaction processing applications to scale to support additional users and larger database files.
Emulex is a longstanding participant in the EMC Select program, which provides customers with a convenient, single source for their total storage needs, and Emulex 2Gb/s and 4Gb/s HBAs are also qualified for use across the CLARiiON, Celerra and Symmetrix networked storage systems. For more information on Emulex LightPulse(r) Fibre Channel HBAs, visit http://www.emulex.com/products/hba/index.jsp.
About Emulex
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.
The Emulex Corporation logo is available at http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=1744
Emulex Safe Harbor Statement
"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.
EMC, Symmetrix, CLARiiON and Celerra are registered trademarks and E-Lab is a trademark of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.