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Press Contact: Robin Austin, Director, Public Relations , 714-885-3462
Emulex to Demonstrate Suite of Next Generation Technologies
and Solutions at CeBIT 2005 Exhibition
Hanover, Germany, March 10, 2005 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent provider of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced its line up of technology and solutions for demonstration the CeBIT 2005 Exhibition. A full range of 4Gb/s technologies and new ease-of-use utilities from Emulex will be on display in solutions that incorporate products from partners Brocade, Engenio and Xyratex.
"One central theme we'll be promoting at CeBIT is the advanced level of maturity we're now seeing in 4Gb/s technologies," said Alan Wallman, vice president of European Operations for Emulex Corporation. "In addition, Emulex is migrating the same ease-of-use levels first seen in the storage industry with the advent of SMB SANs to enterprise level SAN environments, where we see increasing customer requirements for solutions that streamline installation and management processes."
4Gb/s technologies on display at Emulex's booth at CeBIT include its Helios™ platform-based LightPulse™ LP11000 HBAs, and InSpeed® SOC 422 embedded storage switches. Emulex's Enterprise AutoPilot Installer™ utility software, which simplifies the installation and upgrades of multiple HBAs in enterprise environments and integrates with its HBAnyware™ centralized management software will also be demonstrated.
At a live demonstration in the Emulex stand (Hall 1, Stand 7g2, booth #B5) Emulex, Engenio Information Technologies, Xyratex and Brocade Communications collectively demonstrate integrated solutions that reflect both the working benefits of 4Gb/s SAN technology and interoperability between the respective companies' platforms.
Engenio is contributing its 6998 4Gb/s enterprise class storage system, which is based on the company's own sixth-generation XBB architecture. The controller combines faster processors, buses and memory for an extremely high level of performance. Brocade is demonstrating the high-availability Brocade Silkworm™ 4100 SAN switch, which provides 4Gb/s performance, Ports-on-Demand scalability, and up to 32 auto-sensing ports supporting 1, 2 and 4Gb/s data rates and full backward compatibility with the world's largest installed base of SANs. Xyratex is supplying its high performance, high availability SBOD™ (Switched Bunch of Disks) enclosure, which features a switched architecture. Emulex LP11000 HBAs, which feature the company's unique firmware upgradeable architecture and share a common driver model with previous generations of its HBAs, will be used to provide 4Gb/s server connectivity. Emulex's InSpeed SOC 422 embedded storage switch will be used to deliver a high performance switched connectivity to each of the 2.5" 4Gb/s drives in the storage array.
Paul Talbut, CEO of United Kingdom-based storage networking integrator HPS and Chairman of Europe's Storage Networking Industry Association, said "It's great to see industry leaders like Emulex, Brocade, Xyratex and Engenio demonstrating fully functional 4Gb/s storage networking solutions at CeBIT. As our industry begins its transition to 4Gb/s speeds, end-users need to feel comfortable that individual vendors' products can be seamlessly integrated into solutions that will enable them to realize the benefits of 4Gb/s storage networking. The increased throughput delivered by 4Gb/s SANs offers end-users a variety of benefits that range from faster application and back-up performance, to cost savings derived from a reduced number of connections needed between their storage and computing systems, to the investment protection that comes from solutions that are fully backward and forwards compatible. These demonstrations underscore that 4Gb/s technologies are now at an advanced stage, and users can begin integrating 4Gb/s SAN technologies into their storage strategies."
Brocade and Emulex have worked together since the early days of Fibre Channel SAN deployments. The companies continue to partner in broad interoperability efforts and recently announced that they will co-develop an industry first multi-vendor SAN management wizard.
"As leaders in the move to 4G, Brocade and Emulex share a commitment to interoperability in heterogeneous IT environments," said Tom Buiocchi, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Brocade. "We are seeing the SilkWorm 4100 deployed in both branch offices as a core SAN switch for mid-sized organizations and in enterprises implementing a core-to-edge SAN architecture and we are pleased to include it in this demonstration of the state of the art in high-performance SANs."
To find out more about Emulex 4Gb/s SAN technologies, visit www.emulex.com. CeBIT exhibition attendees can view multi-vendor 4Gb/s solutions live at the CeBIT Emulex stand (Hall 1, Stand 7g2, booth #B5).
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™ HBAs and InSpeed® 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, Engenio, 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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"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; fluctuation in the growth of Fibre Channel and IP markets; changes in economic conditions or changes in end-user demand for technology solutions; fluctuations or delays in customer orders; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products; Emulex's ability to gain market acceptance for its products; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on third-party suppliers. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q.
