VERITAS Selects Emulex Host Bus Adapters for Integration Into Its Corporate Storage Networking Infrastructure

Business Wire, March 28, 2002

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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2002

Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX), the world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that VERITAS Software Corp. (Nasdaq:VRTS) has selected Emulex's Fibre Channel HBAs as part of the connectivity solution within its storage area network infrastructure.

VERITAS has chosen to integrate the Emulex HBAs in conjunction with Sun Microsystems servers, McDATA director-class switches, Hitachi Data Systems storage arrays and Quantum/ATL tape libraries to create its storage area network (SAN). The Emulex LP8000 host bus adapter provides robust, high performance connectivity for the Solaris-based SAN environment.

"The evolution of storage management in the last two years has created a new architecture for storage," said Greg Valdez, vice president and chief information officer, VERITAS Software.

"VERITAS was able to leverage the capabilities of its own products for second-generation data replication, global clustering and data center high availability based on a state-of-the-art storage infrastructure from our strategic partners like Emulex."

Emulex HBAs feature a unique architecture that enables a single driver to be used across its entire product line, ensuring forward and backward compatibility. In addition, Emulex HBAs offer a firmware upgradeable architecture that protects customers' investments in storage networking solutions, by enabling a simplified upgrade path without requiring hardware replacement.

Emulex's relationship with VERITAS Software includes a variety of HBA product qualifications with its software solutions, including VERITAS SANPoint Control(TM), which delivers comprehensive SAN management. In addition, Emulex has worked closely with VERITAS to qualify its LightPulse family of HBAs with VERITAS Backup Exec(TM) and VERITAS Volume Manager(TM) software solutions.

"VERITAS is an important partner, and we will continue working closely to develop, qualify and deploy the industry's leading storage networking solutions," said Kirk Roller, chief operating officer for Emulex.

"Emulex HBAs are designed specifically to meet the needs of enterprise-class customers, and we are confident that the integration of Emulex HBAs will enable VERITAS to benefit from increased performance, flexibility and reliability while operating mission-critical enterprise applications."

The Emulex Family of Host Bus Adapters

The Emulex family of HBAs offers high performance, standards-based connectivity solutions for both Fibre Channel and Internet protocol (IP) storage networking environments. Emulex host bus adapters 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.

For information about how Emulex HBAs increase SAN productivity and efficiency, visit the Emulex Web site and download the IDC whitepaper titled, "Measuring the HBA's Role in SAN Management."

The Emulex LightPulse family of Fibre Channel 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 LightPulse family of Fibre Channel products includes the 2Gb/s LP9002L and LP952L, low profile HBAs, the 2Gb/s LP9002C CompactPCI HBA, the 2Gb/s LP9002S SBus-based HBA and the market-leading LP8000.

The Emulex family of IP-based storage networking host bus adapters includes the recently announced GN9000/SI iSCSI host bus adapter and the GN9000/VI VI/IP host bus adapter. The Emulex GN9000/SI is designed to provide the high performance iSCSI connectivity over gigabit Ethernet for PCI-based systems.

The Emulex GN9000/VI VI/IP HBA 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. For more information on the Emulex product families, visit www.emulex.com.

About Emulex

Emulex is a leading supplier and developer of storage networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies. The Emulex 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 Co., 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, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa. News releases and other information about Emulex are available at www.emulex.com.