COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 17, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), announced today that LEGATO Systems, Inc. has qualified the Emulex LightPulse dual channel LP9802DC, LP9802 and LP982 PCI-X HBAs for use with LEGATO NetWorker(r). LEGATO's qualification of Emulex's HBAs with its NetWorker world-class data protection solution ensures that customers experience seamless operation of the two companies' products in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 environments.
"This qualification underscores LEGATO Systems' ongoing effort to meet the rapidly growing data recovery, backup and management needs in heterogeneous networked storage environments," said Victoria Grey, vice president, Information Protection Business Group, LEGATO Systems, Inc. "Emulex's large installed base of more than one million HBAs exemplifies the company's continued commitment to the deployment of compatible, qualified SAN solutions."
LEGATO's NetWorker delivers high-performance protection of business-critical data for more than 29,000 enterprise sites worldwide by centralizing and accelerating backup and recovery operations across UNIX, Windows, Linux, OpenVMS, Mac and NetWare platforms.
"LEGATO Systems' storage management solutions combined with the qualification of Emulex HBAs allows LEGATO to enhance its storage solution offering," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex. "Emulex HBAs are the perfect complement to LEGATO Systems' information protection solutions providing the sophistication, flexibility and broad interoperability needed for highly scalable SANs."
The Emulex LP9802DC, LP9802 and LP982 will provide the highest levels of storage area network (SAN) interoperability, features and performance as enterprise-class customers migrate to next-generation PCI-X-based systems. The Emulex high-performance Fibre Channel connectivity solutions for the enterprise market segments are also backwards compatible with existing 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel PCI installations.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation, which was named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2002, is the world's largest supplier and developer of storage networking host bus adapters. The Emulex product families are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies spanning both Fibre Channel and IP networking protocols, 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 Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, StorageTek and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Via a joint development agreement, Emulex and Intel are pioneering the industry's first storage processors for Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces within a single architecture.
Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Info-X, Netmarks, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. 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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