Emulex Announces Support for New Intel Itanium Processor-Based Platform
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Emulex Announces Support for New Intel Itanium Processor-Based Platform
Emulex LightPulse® Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters Supported on Itanium(TM) Processor-based Systems for Microsoft's 64-bit Windows
COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2001-- Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX - news), the world's largest supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that its LightPulse family of Fibre Channel host bus adapters fully support Intel® Itanium(TM) processor-based platforms.
Intel's Itanium-based systems are designed to provide exceptional performance for enterprise-class, data center computing environments. Emulex HBAs, combined with Intel's new Itanium-based systems, provide highly flexible and scalable solutions for enterprise customers.
The entire family of Emulex LightPulse HBAs are Intel Itanium processor-ready, including its newly announced 2Gb/s dual channel PCI-X LP9402DC HBAs, 2Gb/s LP9002L low profile HBAs, and its market-leading LP8000 HBAs. Emulex HBAs and drivers have undergone Emulex's thorough testing to ensure a high quality interface for Itanium-based systems running on Microsoft's Windows® Advanced Server Limited Edition.
``Emulex has been actively involved in Intel's Itanium-based device driver development program for their Fibre Channel HBA's and related drivers to be enabled for Itanium-based systems,'' said Jim Yent, intel technical marketing manager for Itanium IHV Enabling. ``We are pleased Emulex has completed their validation cycle with their HBA drivers to coincide with the rollout of Intel's Itanium-based systems.''
Emulex has also worked closely with Microsoft Corp. to provide drivers in support of Microsoft's new Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition operating system, which is utilized by the Intel Itanium 64-bit platform.
``Emulex and Microsoft continue to work closely to ensure the seamless deployment of enterprise storage networking solutions,'' said Peter Conway, senior director, Microsoft. ``The Emulex Fibre Channel host bus adapters are an integral component of SAN infrastructures and its drivers contribute to our new Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition providing the high availability and robustness that data center customers demand.''
``As a member of Intel's FastTrack IA-64 Itanium driver development program, Emulex is fully prepared to accelerate adoption of this new platform. Our newly validated drivers enable customers to simply and easily migrate their existing installed base of Emulex hardware to high performance Itanium-based systems,'' said Kirk Roller, chief operating officer at Emulex. ``The Intel Itanium processor presents a tremendous opportunity for the entire industry, and provides Emulex with an excellent opportunity to expand its presence in the data center marketplace.''
The Emulex Family of Host Bus Adapters
The Emulex HBAs offer high performance, standards-based connectivity solutions for both Fibre Channel and IP storage networking environments. Emulex host bus adapters support 64-bit operating systems and provide a unique combination of features required for mission-critical enterprise environments that deliver reliability, high bandwidth, server CPU offload, low latency and scalable connectivity.
The Emulex LightPulse family of HBAs offers full fabric support, high data integrity, full-duplex operation, data buffering for up to 100km of cabling, and support for all Fibre Channel topologies. The Emulex Fibre Channel products include the 2 Gb/s LP9002L host bus adapters, LP8000 host adapter and LP850 host bus adapters, the high-performance PCI-based LP7000E and the industry's first digital re-timing hub, the LH5000 series.
The Emulex family of IP networking HBAs provides unsurpassed high performance data access over industry-standard IP networks. The GN9000/VI VI/IP HBA, announced in July 2000, enables network attached storage (NAS) appliances and hosts to exchange file system data over IP networks, while gaining the high throughput, low latency and reduced CPU overhead benefits of the virtual interface (VI) architecture.
Emulex's recent announcement of its GN9000/SI iSCSI HBAs further extends the Emulex product offering to include block level data access over IP networks, including data residing on Fibre Channel SANs. The Emulex family of IP networking products also includes the cLAN1000 host bus adapter and the cLAN 5000/5300 cluster switches, which are the preferred connectivity solution for VI-based system area networks. For more information on the Emulex product families, visit www.emulex.com.
About Emulex
Emulex Corp. is a leading supplier and developer of storage and server networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies. Storage networks provide data centers with high-speed, scalable, and highly available storage access. Server networks enable the creation of high-performance server clusters for database and transaction processing.
Emulex's product families 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 Compaq, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Unisys.
In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, INRANGE, Intel, Legato, McDATA, Microsoft, and Veritas among its strategic partners.
Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Consan, CTC, Info-X, Tech Data and TidalWire. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa. News releases and other information about Emulex are available at 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 following: Emulex's and Giganet's markets are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements, and the combined companies may not be able to respond to such changes on a timely basis; the fibre channel and IP market are at early stages of development; changes in economic conditions or changes in end-user demand for technology solutions, including the possibility of slower than expected growth in demand for Fibre Channel solutions; possible delays in OEM launches of products enabled by the company's solutions or deferrals in orders for the company's solutions by these OEMs; Giganet's VI/IP products remain in the development stage and are subject to significant technical, competitive and market acceptance risks; the ability of Emulex to effectively integrate Giganet's operations into its own; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's and Giganet's products as well as pricing pressures that may result from such competitive conditions; the combined companies' ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the companies' reliance on third-party suppliers for components used in the companies' products and on manufacturing subcontractors that assemble and distribute the company's products; the companies' reliance on certain OEMs, distributors and key customers; potential losses on strategic business investments; and potential fluctuations in Emulex's future effective tax rate. 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.
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