Emulex’s Connectivity Continuum™ defines a strategic architecture for the evolution and virtualization of connectivity and networking. It provides data centers with revolutionary business value, operational flexibility, strategic advantage and the benefits of a staged, evolutionary, implementation model for investment protection. The Connectivity Continuum consolidates existing Local Area Network (LAN), Storage Area Network (SAN) and high-performance computing (HPC) networks into a single converged networking framework to enable unified and virtualized I/O for future data centers.

The Connectivity Continuum is built on six core pillars. Each of these pillars represents how Emulex works and integrates with the data center ecosystem. We work with many OEMs and industry partners to build a connectivity strategy that protects today’s investments, bridges those investments forward and enables the future of the data center.

• Connect –Connectivity is what we do. Our strategy and commitment is to make it seamless and integrated for current and future implementations to our OEMs, industry partners and data center clients.
• Manage – Next generation, virtualized data centers require intelligent services, control and provisioning tools that allow every connection to be optimized, secured and managed. Our OneCommand™ manage framework provides the advanced tools and services required by the data center of the future.
• Converge – Convergence of networks is required to enable the dynamic and adaptive data center. Convergence is about more than a single cable; it is about value, cost and strategic capabilities of connectivity, I/O and networking.
• Secure – Security is of paramount concern for data centers. Our new services for end-to-end encryption, access control and administrative control will protect businesses and support regulatory and compliance demands.
• Virtualize – Driving higher levels of efficiency, dynamic allocation and provisioning to the virtual server level is vital for adaptive, on-demand and cloud computing models. Emulex’s Connectivity Continuum was designed for the virtual enterprise and provides the most advanced tools and services for virtual I/O.