COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 14, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters and embedded storage switches, today announced that its LightPulse family of HBAs has achieved certification from Red Flag, Asia's leading supplier of Linux operating system software. Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs are certified for use with both 32-bit and 64-bit Red Flag Itanium 2 Linux operating systems and this qualification reinforces Emulex's commitment to Linux, as the company is now certified by the largest Linux distribution in Asia.
"Emulex is one of the chief vendors of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, while Red Flag Linux leads the Linux market in Asia. It is important for both Red Flag Linux and Emulex to maintain a long-term relationship and provide sustainable support as well as deliver economical, reliable and stable technologies to enterprise clients. All our Linux product lines, including that of Itanium 2, are compatible with Emulex HBAs," said Mr. Zhao Xiaoliang, Acting President of Red Flag Linux.
"Through Red Flag qualification, Linux users benefit from utilizing Emulex HBAs for industry-leading connectivity for Fibre Channel SANs," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of Worldwide Marketing for Emulex. "Working with Red Flag signifies Emulex's commitment to provide world-class, high reliability storage solutions for the Linux community."
This certification is the latest in a successful series of cooperation with the world's leading enterprise Linux distributions to integrate and distribute Emulex Open Source HBA drivers. The certified Emulex HBAs, including its LP10000, LP1050, LP9802 and LP9002, operate seamlessly with Red Flag's solution to offer highly integrated connectivity for enterprise-class storage area networks.
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 16 in the Deloitte 2004 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 HBAs and InSpeed 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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