Emulex Appoints Margie Evashenk As Chief Development Executive

Evashenk Brings Over 20 Years of Experience and Will Drive Engineering and Development

COSTA MESA, Calif., May 17, 2011 – Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that Margie Evashenk has been promoted as the company’s chief development executive. In this position, Evashenk will oversee all of the company’s engineering functions, a role previously held in interim by Emulex president and chief operating officer, Jeff Benck. Evashenk will continue to report directly to Benck.

 “Margie has a proven track record of creating high performance teams and I am confident under her leadership that she will take our global engineering team to the next level,” said Jeff Benck, president and chief operating officer, Emulex. “I congratulate her on this important new role within the company and believe she can build on her success in helping us continue to innovate and expand our leadership position in Fibre Channel, 10Gb Ethernet and converged networking technologies. "

Margie Evashenk joined Emulex in 2006 and in her new role as chief development executive, is responsible for leading development and support for the broad range of Emulex products, while fostering innovation to ensure a competitive edge. Prior to this role, Evashenk served as the senior vice president of engineering at Emulex, responsible for ASICs, hardware, and embedded products.

“I'm thrilled to be leading such a talented team of engineers around the world,” said Margie Evashenk, chief development executive, Emulex. “I look forward to leveraging our broad and deep talent pool to further Emulex’s position in current markets, while also investing in building out new and emerging product areas.”

Evashenk joined Emulex through the acquisition of Sierra Logic, where she was a co-founder and vice president of engineering. Prior to that, she held various positions in engineering and R&D management at HP and Agilent Technologies. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.

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About Emulex

Emulex, the leader in converged networking solutions, provides enterprise-class connectivity for servers, networks and storage devices within the data center. The Company's product portfolio of Fibre Channel host bus adapters, network interface cards, converged network adapters, encryption solutions, controllers, embedded bridges and switches, and connectivity management software are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments. Emulex solutions are used and offered by the industry's leading server and storage OEMs including, Apple, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Huawei, IBM, LSI, Lenovo, NEC, Oracle, NetApp, Samsung and ZTE. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. More information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is available at www.Emulex.com.

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