COSTA MESA, Calif., July 20, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced that Langchao Group, China's leading server manufacturer and server application solution provider, has selected the Emulex LightPulse(r) LP1050 and LP101 Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) to provide the storage networking connectivity to its family of entry-level, midrange and enterprise servers. Langchao's selection of the LightPulse family of Emulex HBAs ensures the benefits of scalable, reliable storage system connectivity.
"The need to store ever-increasing amounts of data continues to be a challenge for businesses of all sizes and therefore, it is critically important to enable all segments of our customer base, including volume or entry-level server customers, to reliably and seamlessly connect to Fibre Channel-based storage solutions. This is why we chose Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs," said Mr. Wang Endong, Senior Vice President of Langchao Group and General Manager of Langchao (Beijing) Electronic Information Industry Co., LTD. "It is increasingly important to provide user-friendly solutions with the reliability and robustness our mutual customers expect."
With the development of Langchao storage team, Langchao has become the largest commercial storage products, solution and service provider in China. Emulex HBAs will facilitate Langchao's server and storage total solution. Langchao will integrate the Emulex LP1050 into its midrange NF380 and enterprise-based NC2000 server families. Additionally, the LP101 will be integrated into its NF195 family of volume servers connecting to the EMC AX100 storage solution, which targets the small-to-midsize enterprise (SME) market. The Emulex LightPulse family of HBAs offers highly integrated connectivity solutions with a unique, firmware-based architecture and operating system driver compatibility, enabling customers to benefit from a simplified upgrade path, reduced management complexities and a lower total cost of ownership. Coupling Emulex HBAs with Langchao's Intel Xeon-based family of servers also ensures customers may leverage the benefits of 64-bit computing with driver support for EM64T.
"Working with Langchao to provide SAN connectivity solutions to its large server customer base reinforces the value that customers derive from leveraging the unique hardware and software benefits inherent to the Emulex LightPulse HBA architecture," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corp. "By virtue of this new relationship with Langchao, customers can combine the most advanced technology from Emulex with servers from the most successful Chinese server manufacturer for exceptional performance and connectivity."
About Langchao Group
Langchao Group is China's leading provider of industrial IT application solutions, and the No. 1 server manufacturer and server application solution provider in China. Langchao Group has two stock companies "Langchao Information" & "Langchao Software." The business of Langchao includes server, industrial computer, networking terminal equipment, industrial application software, ERP, communication operation system solutions for customers in the finance, communication, government, education, manufacturing and tobacco industries.
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 and most recently received recognition as one of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies.
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 www.emulex.com.
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