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Emulex Announces Support for SAS and SSDs With Next Generation InSpeed Bridging Technology

Tue. October 13, 2009; Posted: 09:00 AM
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PHOENIX, Oct 13, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ELX | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that it is expanding the performance and versatility of its market-leading InSpeed(R) Bridging technology through the addition of enterprise storage system support for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) to Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) bridging in SAS environments, support for SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) in Fibre Channel environments, and support for ultra-high performance Solid State Drives (SSDs) in both SAS and Fibre Channel environments.

"The addition of these critical new bridging capabilities expand the market and technology leadership of Emulex's InSpeed Bridging technology allowing our original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers to quickly and confidently integrate SAS and SATA protocol-based HDD and SSD devices into either SAS or Fibre Channel storage systems," said Steve Daheb, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of business development, Emulex. "Emulex's fourth generation bridging technology provides the most robust, resilient and comprehensive HDD and SSD support in the industry."

Emulex's InSpeed Bridging technology delivers industry-leading system resiliency, stability and performance through its trusted abstraction layer that isolates enterprise storage systems from the idiosyncrasies associated with different interface protocols (Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA) and drive formats (HDD and SSD). This abstraction layer dramatically reduces the development time required to bring high-capacity or ultra-high performance storage solutions to market and enables vendor-independent drive selection.

"Emulex and Xyratex have a long-standing relationship bringing to market innovation that has driven increased performance and robustness in Fibre Channel storage systems," said Todd Gresham, senior vice president, Networked Storage Solutions, Xyratex. "By leveraging Emulex's next generation InSpeed SAS bridging technology, our OEM customers will be able to lower costs and improve reliability, which will increase their ability to address new market opportunities in today's enterprise storage environment."

"The increasing requirements derived from I/O intensive applications continue to grow the market for SSD-based enterprise systems. SSD shipments are forecast to more than double on a compound annual basis through 2013," said Jeff Janukowicz, research manager, hard disk drive components and solid state drives at IDC. "Through the addition of support for flash-based SSDs into its new InSpeed Bridging technology, Emulex is positioned to capitalize on this new strategic enterprise business dynamic."

Today's Flash-based SSDs are predominantly based on the SATA interface. Emulex InSpeed bridges provide options for system OEM customers to connect these high performance SATA SSDs to enterprise systems using external Fibre Channel or SAS bridge interposer boards, while maintaining enterprise-level robustness and performance. Alternatively, SSD vendors can integrate bridging silicon into their devices to provide a native Fibre Channel or SAS SSD.

"SandForce is working closely with Emulex to enable customers to build enterprise-class SSDs that connect to Fibre Channel or SAS systems," said Thad Omura, vice president of marketing, SandForce. "Emulex's next generation InSpeed flexible bridging options enable our SATA-based Enterprise SSD Processor, to be used with either Fibre Channel or SAS systems. In initial testing, we've found the new InSpeed bridge technology provides a robust and high performance solution for SSD applications."

Emulex's comprehensive multi-protocol product portfolio of industry-leading embedded storage products and technologies include a full line of I/O controllers, InSpeed embedded switches and multi-protocol bridges. Emulex has an installed base of more than 60 million embedded storage ports and its embedded technologies are used by the top storage OEMs. For more information on Emulex's line of embedded storage products, visit www.emulex.com/solutions/embedded-storage.html.

Visit Emulex this week at Storage Networking World at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, AZ, October 13 -- 14, 2009 in booth #601 to learn more.

To learn more about Emulex's next generation InSpeed Bridging technology, visit: http://www.emulex.com/products/strategic-direction/inspeed-bridging-technology.html

To learn more about Emulex, please visit: http://www.emulex.com

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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 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. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding future events and future performance. Emulex wishes to caution readers that a number of significant factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include changes in economic and industry conditions and the effects of ongoing global economic uncertainty, changes in end user demand for technology solutions; the effect of any actual or potential unsolicited offers to acquire Emulex; Emulex's dependence on a limited number of customers and the effects of the loss of, or decrease or delays in orders by, any such customers, or the failure of such customers to make payments; the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; the effect of rapid migration of customers towards newer, lower cost product platforms; slower than expected growth of the storage networking market or the failure of Emulex's Original Equipment Manufacturer ("OEM") customers to successfully incorporate Emulex products into their systems; delays in product development; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products; Emulex's ability to gain market acceptance for its products; any inadequacy of Emulex's intellectual property protection or the potential for third-party claims of infringement; Emulex's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; and the Emulex'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 Emulex's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q. Statements in this release are based on current expectations and Emulex undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements for any reason. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

SOURCE: Emulex Corporation

Emulex Corporation 
Katherine Lane, +1 714-885-3828 
Director, Corporate Communications 
katherine.lane@emulex.com
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