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Network Appliance Qualifies Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs to Create High-Performance Fibre Channel SANs
Emulex Builds on Long-Term Relationship Helping NetApp Customers Meet Their Storage Connectivity Needs
COSTA MESA, Calif., June 21, 2006 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity solutions, today announced that Network Appliance (NASDAQ:NTAP) has qualified and will resell Emulex's family of LightPulse® LP11000 4Gb/s PCI-X host bus adapters (HBAs). NetApp customers can leverage fully qualified Emulex PCI-X and PCI Express HBAs to attach servers to NetApp® based Fibre Channel (FC) storage area networks (SANs). Emulex HBAs provide the increased performance and availability required for transferring critical data, and also simplifies complex data management environments, via its unique software suite, HBAnyware®.
This qualification signifies immediate availability of the Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs for use with NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) series of storage solutions. The qualified solutions from Emulex include the LP11000 single- and dual-channel PCI-X HBAs (NetApp models X1086A-R6, X1087A-R6) and the LPe11000 single- and dual-channel PCI-Express HBAs. NetApp SAN storage systems are ideal for customers that must quickly develop, transfer or analyze large amounts of data. The next-generation SAN technology gives customers the higher performance they need, with better reliability, backward compatibility and seamless migration to next-generation storage solutions.
"For a growing number of users, a 4Gb/s Fibre Channel SAN is a necessity in order to keep pace with the demands of enterprise applications," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Alliances at Network Appliance. "Together, Emulex and NetApp are helping customers maximize the full power of their storage resources by providing storage solutions that simplify data management, improve productivity, and lower cost of ownership."
"NetApp has been reselling Emulex's HBAs for a number of years as part of its FC SAN solutions, underscoring the companies' continuing strong relationship," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex. "Emulex and NetApp are committed to providing next-generation solutions that are reliable, scalable and that meet the performance needs of NetApp's customers."
Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs ~ Generations Ahead
Emulex LightPulse HBAs leverage seven generations of advanced, field-proven technology, providing customers with the highest quality SAN connectivity solutions that the world's leading enterprises have come to rely upon. With a unique firmware upgradeable architecture, common driver model and centralized management tools for simplified installation and deployment, Emulex HBAs are simply "Generations Ahead" of competing solutions. The Emulex suite of Fibre Channel HBAs offers the following industry-leading features and benefits:
- Superior Quality and Reliability - Field-proven, single-chip design with a combination of parity and other advanced error checking methods to validate the integrity of data blocks.
- Most Efficient Installation and Management - Unique tools designed to automate installation and provide local and remote HBA configuration and management. The Emulex architecture allows complete independence of device drivers from HBA hardware and firmware, which translates into time- and cost-savings by eliminating the need to reboot during most configuration changes and providing compatibility across HBA generations.
- Maximum SAN Performance - Experience superior full-duplex data throughput and I/O processing, ideal for real-world application environments. Dynamic Frame Multiplexing is another exclusive Emulex feature designed to consistently provide superior performance in mixed workload environments, such as disk and tape back-up.
- Fastest Diagnosis and Recovery - Ensures fast and efficient SAN troubleshooting with comprehensive diagnostics, detailed event logging and tracing.
- Broadest Enterprise Deployments - With the largest installed base of HBAs, Emulex SAN connectivity solutions are trusted by the world's largest, mission-critical enterprises.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the most trusted name in storage networking connectivity and a leading provider of critical building blocks for intelligent data center infrastructure solutions. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, embedded storage switching, intelligent storage platforms and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions. 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.
Emulex Safe Harbor Statement
"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. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
