SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced the industry's first family of embedded storage processor products that integrate support for all three serial storage protocols, including Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA, within a single device. Designed for storage system providers that want to build flexibility into their external storage systems, the new family of Emulex storage processors provides a fully integrated, high performance solution to support a broad range of entry-level to enterprise-class storage systems.
The new family of products -- Emulex IOP 502M, Emulex IOC 504 and Emulex IOP 504 -- are multi-application, multi-protocol, software compatible solutions, which are the result of a joint development agreement with Intel(r). The Emulex family of storage processors leverages underlying technology from the Intel(r) IOP34x storage family and its 90 nanometer technology, along with Emulex's best-of-breed protocol engines and a common software interface for simplified migration. Currently, Emulex has three unannounced OEM design wins for this new product family.
"As storage system OEMs transition their solutions to integrate support for new storage protocols and disk drives, Emulex is at the forefront of this development effort providing a suite of products that deliver the flexibility and multi-protocol support - all within a single device - that helps reduce development time and cost," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex. "This announcement represents the first SAS/SATA protocol products to be released from Emulex and serves as a testament to our vision of providing storage system OEMs with the most complete portfolio of integrated embedded storage networking products."
The new multi-protocol Emulex IOC/IOP products uniquely offer storage system providers a performance optimized and cost effective implementation that scales from entry-level Fibre Channel systems to enterprise-class FICON front-end SAN connection, and also support Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA within a single device for back-end disk connections. Further, these products are fully compatible with Emulex's InSpeed and FibreSpy embedded storage switches providing complete end-to-end solutions that span the full-range of entry to enterprise storage systems.
"Multi-protocol technologies let storage companies grow and adapt their systems without excessive cost," said Hans Geyer, vice president and general manager, Intel Storage Group. "Intel and Emulex have collaborated on building multi-protocol storage products based on each other's strengths to provide OEMs the cost and time-to-market advantage of investing in one piece of hardware and use it for different interface protocols."
The new family of Emulex storage processors provides three unique product offerings based on the same silicon architecture for front-end SAN connection and back-end disk connectivity, and is being demonstrated this week in the Storage Zone at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, including:
-- Emulex IOP 502M - The Emulex IOP 502M is a highly
integrated, single-chip Fibre Channel and SAS I/O Processor
that delivers the lowest cost of implementation on the
market and is compatible with Emulex's Service Level
Interface (SLI) for driver compatibility. As a single-chip
solution, the Emulex IOP 502M uniquely provides simultaneous
front-end Fibre Channel SAN connectivity, back-end disk
connectivity, and an Intel XScale processor to house
applications, such as on-board RAID.
-- Emulex IOC 504 - The Emulex IOC 504 is a Fibre Channel
I/O Controller that can be used in a range of applications
including front-end SAN interfaces providing Fibre Channel
to enterprise class FICON solutions, or in the back-end
disk connection. In all cases, the Emulex IOC 504 offers
multiple driver compatible interface solutions, including
the Emulex IOC 502M, by using Emulex's Service Level
Interface (SLI).
-- Emulex IOP 504 - The Emulex IOP 504 is a Fibre Channel
I/O Processor that can be used in a range of applications
including front-end SAN connectivity providing Fibre
Channel to enterprise class FICON solutions, or in the
back-end of storage systems for disk connection. It also
offers a dedicated processor for application processing,
such as RAID, along with multiple driver compatible
interface solutions, including the Emulex IOC 502M and
IOC 504, by using Emulex's Service Level Interface (SLI).
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity, with solutions spanning host bus adapters, embedded storage switches, I/O controllers and SAN Storage Switches. Emulex ranked number 19 in the Deloitte 2005 Technology Fast 50 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX). 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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