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Emulex OneConnect Technology Selected by HP for Use with HP ProLiant Server Blades

COSTA MESA, Calif., June 23, 2010 – Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that its OneConnect™ Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) technology has been selected for use in the new HP ProLiant G7 server blades’ integrated HP NC551i Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb Adapter. In addition, this technology is also used in the new HP NC551m Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb Adapter mezzanine card. HP ProLiant server blades and Virtual Connect offering are part of the HP’s industry leading BladeSystem portfolio.

The Universal Local Area Network on Motherboard (ULOM) and UCNA technology is capable of running 10Gb Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or iSCSI concurrently. The convergence of network and storage traffic helps IT organizations keep pace by deploying a new advanced network architecture integrated into servers which is more coherent, flexible, and agile than today’s 10GbE only networks.

“Emulex’s new OneConnect UCNA technology represents a new generation of server I/O technology that promises to reduce networking complexity and costs for IT organizations,” said Steve Daheb, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of business development, Emulex. “HP’s new G7 server blades used with the new HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric module, allow customers to converge, innovate, transform and simplify their infrastructure with one of the most flexible and cost-effective ways to connect servers to any network.”

“Clients want to reduce network sprawl at the server edge and decrease deployment time of network connections,” said Paul Miller, vice president, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, Solutions and Strategic Alliances, HP. “HP’s new ProLiant G7 server blades that incorporate Emulex UCNA technology, combined with the new HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric Module, simplifies, consolidates and virtualizes the server edge for HP BladeSystem customers.”

Emulex OneConnect UCNA technology supports full hardware protocol offload support for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), with excellent 10Gb Ethernet throughput and latency, and the ability to efficiently consolidate network and storage infrastructures without changing management domains. As part of the Emulex vEngine™ technology, hardware offload and acceleration reduces server overhead and increases the number of virtual machines that can run on virtualized servers.  

These new design wins with HP build upon the previously announced HP NC550SFP Dual Port 10Gb/s Server Adapter, the HP StorageWorks CN1000E Dual Port Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for HP ProLiant rack and tower servers, and the HP NC550m Dual Port Flex-10 10Gb/s Ethernet Adapter for HP ProLiant blade servers.

To learn more about Emulex’s solutions for HP ProLiant servers, please visit: www.emulex-hp.com

Learn more about network convergence and Emulex’s OneConnect UCNAs, please visit: www.emulex.com/solutions/convergence.html

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About Emulex

Emulex is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Our Connectivity Continuum architecture provides intelligent networking services that transition today’s infrastructure into tomorrow’s unified network ecosystem. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Through strategic collaboration and integrated partner solutions, Emulex provides its customers with industry leading business value, operational flexibility and strategic advantage. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX) and has corporate headquarters in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at www.emulex.com.

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