By VSM News Staff
published: Thursday, May 08 2008
Next-Generation
HBAs Provide Industry-Leading SAN Connectivity; Available Through EMC Select
COSTA MESA, Calif., May 8, 2008 - Emulex Corporation
(NYSE:ELX) today announced that EMC Corporation has qualified the Emulex
LightPulse® LPe12000 family of 8Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) for
the EMC® CLARiiON®, EMC Celerra® and EMC Symmetrix® 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-LabTM 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® Fibre Channel HBAs, click here .
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 www.emulex.com .
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