COSTA MESA, Calif., Feb. 14, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced that HP has qualified the Emulex LP1050Ex PCI Express Fibre Channel HBAs (HP# A7560A) as a supported connectivity solution for use with HP's ProLiant servers outfitted with the latest PCI Express technology. The qualification ensures the two companies' products operate seamlessly to provide optimal server and storage solutions that support and complement the PCI Express architecture.
"Emulex is a supporter of HP's Adaptive Enterprise vision, and we are committed to maintaining our first-to-market advantage in the area of PCI Express to ensure HP has the core building blocks that provide the flexibility and scalability inherent to HP ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex Corp. "HP's use of the LP1050Ex validates Emulex's commitment to provide high-performance and scalable Fibre Channel solutions for both current and emerging system bus architectures, such as PCI Express."
"As more and more PCI Express solutions enter the marketplace, we are confident our PCI Express-based ProLiant servers provide customers with the scalable solutions required for maximizing the functionality of their SAN environments," said Rich Palmer, director of product marketing, server storage and infrastructure, Enterprise Systems Group, HP. "Qualification of the Emulex LP1050Ex Fibre Channel HBA offers our customers the ability to enhance the performance of their ProLiant servers by leveraging the benefits of PCI Express."
The Emulex family of LightPulse(tm) HBAs offers a unique firmware-based architecture and operating system driver compatibility across Emulex's entire HBA product line. Driver compatibility across product generations enables customers to benefit from a simplified upgrade path and reduced management complexities.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions spanning host bus adapters, embedded storage switches, I/O controllers and SAN Storage Switches. 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 http://www.emulex.com.
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