Emulex LightPulse 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAs Now Available for Fujitsu PRIMERGY Servers
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Emulex LightPulse 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAs Now Available for Fujitsu PRIMERGY Servers
Industry's Fastest 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAs Deliver Better Power Efficiency, Leading Reliability and Simplified Management for Fujitsu Customers
COSTA MESA, Calif., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the availability of its LightPulse® LPe16000B-M6-F single-port and LPe16002B-M6-F dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for the Fujitsu PRIMERGY server product line. Emulex 16GFC HBAs deliver more than 1.2 million I/O operations per second (IOPS) on a single-port¹, enabling Fujitsu customers to support more applications and virtual machines (VMs) per server, improve power efficiency with better IOPS performance per watt, save HBA administration and installation time with powerful management tools, and ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met with the most reliable HBA available.
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"The computing industry is experiencing mounting demand for storage performance due to increases in data growth, VM density and application performance requirements," said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. "Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs) carry the bulk of storage traffic in the enterprise data center and are beginning to feel the stresses of these increased demands. Combined with high performance Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers, Emulex LightPulse 16GFC HBAs address these requirements by supporting an industry-leading 1.2 million IOPS on a single port with extremely fast response times, as well as delivering consolidation and power per IOPS performance benefits."
"Today's high performance PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 PRIMERGY servers are capable of generating massive amounts of I/O to keep pace with customers' virtualization and application demands; this has made the role of the HBA more important than ever before," said Uwe Romppel, head of the product development group, Fujitsu Technology Solutions. "Emulex 16GFC technology continues to be relied upon by Fujitsu PRIMERGY customers for its industry leading performance, reliability, backward compatibility and simplified management."
Emulex field-proven 16GFC technology is ideal for customers using high-performance PCIe 3.0 Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers, and provides the following customer benefits:
-- Industry Leading Fibre Channel Performance: Emulex's latest 16GFC
technology delivers up to 1.2 million IOPS on a single port(1), enabling
its LightPulse HBAs to meet the needs of today's performance hungry
applications, SSDs and backup application demands. The architecture
enables all resources to be applied to any port that needs it, ensuring
SLAs are met. Competing HBAs are limited to half the IOPS per port(2),
preventing resource scaling between ports and potentially putting SLAs
at risk. Additionally, high performance Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers, which
include the latest Intel® Xeon® processors and support PCIe 3.0,
increase the total I/O bandwidth available to approximately quadruple
that of the previous generation of servers( 1), making them an ideal
match for the highest performing Emulex 16GFC HBAs.
-- Increased VM Densities: Emulex 16GFC HBAs leverage Emulex vScale(TM) for
superior scalability, supporting up to 255 virtual functions (VFs),
1024 Message Signal Interrupts Extended (MSI-X) and 8192 concurrent
logins and open exchanges, up to four times the number supported by
competing 16GFC HBAs(3), enabling support for more VMs per server than
ever before.
-- GreenState(TM) Power Efficiency: Emulex GreenState power management
reduces data center power consumption and associated operational
expenditures (OPEX) by delivering up to four times better IOPS
performance per watt over previous generations( 4).
-- Simplified and Time-Saving I/O Management: With a single driver model,
the Emulex 16GFC HBAs can be controlled, configured and managed from a
single console using Emulex OneCommand® Manager, enabling enterprise
scalability with time-saving features that provide more than twice the
management functionality and take half the time to install and manage
compared to other I/O solutions(5). Emulex OneCommand® Manager plug-in
for VMware vCenter(TM) Server allows users to manage Emulex adapters
across hundreds of servers, natively from the VMware vCenter Server
console. In addition, Emulex is the only HBA provider to support the
VMware vCenter 5.1 Web Client, providing administrators with the
flexibility to manage their HBAs with both the desktop and web client
with the same functionality.
-- Maximum Uptime to Meet SLAs: Emulex LightPulse HBAs deliver the highest
published reliability data with more than 10 million hours mean time
between failure (MTBF), run cooler and use passive heat sinks( 2).
1. Demartek Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation, October 2012
2. Demartek Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Feature Comparison,
December 2012
3. Based on Emulex Labs benchmark testing
4. Emulex LPe16000B data sheet
5. Based on Emulex Labs benchmark testing
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About Emulex
Emulex, the leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, provides hardware and software solutions for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government and telecommunications. Emulex's products enable unrivaled end-to-end application visibility, optimization and acceleration. The Company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of ultra high-performance Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity products, have been designed into server and storage solutions from leading OEMs, including Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp and Oracle, and can be found in the data centers of nearly all of the Fortune 1000. Emulex's monitoring and management solutions, including its portfolio of network visibility and recording products, provide organizations with complete network performance management at speeds up to 100Gb Ethernet. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) please visit http://www.Emulex.com.
"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, contain forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. We expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or changes to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect any future events or circumstances. We wish to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include the possibility that we may not realize the anticipated benefits from the acquisition of Endace on a timely basis or at all, and may be unable to integrate the technology, operations and personnel of Endace into our existing operations in a timely and efficient manner. In addition, intellectual property claims, with or without merit, that could result in costly litigation, cause product shipment delays, require us to indemnify customers, or require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements, which may or may not be available. Furthermore, we have in the past obtained, and may be required in the future to obtain, licenses of technology owned by other parties. We cannot be certain that the necessary licenses will be available or that they can be obtained on commercially reasonable terms. If we were to fail to obtain such royalty or licensing agreements in a timely manner and on reasonable terms, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected. Ongoing lawsuits, such as the action brought by Broadcom Corporation (Broadcom), present inherent risks, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations. Such potential risks include continuing expenses of litigation, risk of loss of patent rights, risk of monetary damages, risk of injunction against the sale of products incorporating the technology in question, counterclaims, attorneys' fees, incremental costs associated with product or component redesigns, and diversion of management's attention from other business matters. With respect to the continuing Broadcom litigation, such potential risks also include the adequacy of any sunset period to make design changes, the ability to implement any design changes, the availability of customer resources to complete any re-qualification or re-testing that may be needed, the ability to maintain favorable working relationships with Emulex suppliers of serializer/deserializer (SerDes) modules, and the ability to obtain a settlement which does not put us at a competitive disadvantage. In addition, the fact that the economy generally, and the technology and storage market segments specifically, have been in a state of uncertainty makes it difficult to determine if past experience is a good guide to the future and makes it impossible to determine if markets will grow or shrink in the short term. Continued weakness in domestic and worldwide macro-economic conditions, related disruptions in world credit and equity markets, and the resulting economic uncertainty for our customers, as well as the storage and converged networking market as a whole, has and could continue to adversely affect our revenues and results of operations. As a result of these uncertainties, we are unable to predict our future results with any accuracy. Other factors affecting these forward-looking statements include but are not limited to the following: faster than anticipated declines in the storage networking market, slower than expected growth of the converged networking market or the failure of our Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customers to successfully incorporate our products into their systems; our dependence on a limited number of customers and the effects of the loss of, decrease in or delays of orders by any such customers, or the failure of such customers to make timely payments; the emergence of new or stronger competitors as a result of consolidation movements in the market; the timing and market acceptance of our products or our OEM customers' new or enhanced products; costs associated with entry into new areas of the network, server and storage technology markets; the variability in the level of our backlog and the variable and seasonal procurement patterns of our customers; any inadequacy of our intellectual property protection and the costs of actual or potential third-party claims of infringement and any related indemnity obligations or adverse judgments; the effect of any actual or potential unsolicited offers to acquire us; proxy contests or the activities of activist investors; impairment charges, including but not limited to goodwill and intangible assets; changes in tax rates or legislation; the effects of acquisitions; the effects of terrorist activities, natural disasters, and any resulting disruption in our supply chain or customer purchasing patterns or any other resulting economic or political instability; the highly competitive nature of the markets for our products as well as pricing pressures that may result from such competitive conditions; the effects of changes in our business model to separately charge for software; the effect of rapid migration of customers towards newer, lower cost product platforms; transitions from board or box level to application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) solutions for selected applications; a shift in unit product mix from higher-end to lower-end or mezzanine card products; a faster than anticipated decrease in the average unit selling prices or an increase in the manufactured cost of our products; delays in product development; our reliance on third-party suppliers and subcontractors for components and assembly; our ability to attract and retain key technical personnel; our ability to benefit from our research and development activities; our dependence on international sales and internationally produced products; changes in accounting standards; and any resulting regulatory changes on our business. These and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements and are discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, under the caption "Risk Factors."
All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
Press Contacts:
Katherine Lane
Director, Corporate Communications
+1 714-885-3828
katherine.lane@emulex.com
Jolene Bonina
Senior Manager, Public Relations and Social Media
+1 714-885-3858
jolene.bonina@emulex.com
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Industry's Fastest 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAs Deliver Better Power Efficiency, Leading Reliability and Simplified Management for Fujitsu Customers
COSTA MESA, Calif., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the availability of its LightPulse® LPe16000B-M6-F single-port and LPe16002B-M6-F dual-port 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for the Fujitsu PRIMERGY server product line. Emulex 16GFC HBAs deliver more than 1.2 million I/O operations per second (IOPS) on a single-port¹, enabling Fujitsu customers to support more applications and virtual machines (VMs) per server, improve power efficiency with better IOPS performance per watt, save HBA administration and installation time with powerful management tools, and ensure service level agreements (SLAs) are met with the most reliable HBA available.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120403/NE81278LOGO )
"The computing industry is experiencing mounting demand for storage performance due to increases in data growth, VM density and application performance requirements," said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. "Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs) carry the bulk of storage traffic in the enterprise data center and are beginning to feel the stresses of these increased demands. Combined with high performance Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers, Emulex LightPulse 16GFC HBAs address these requirements by supporting an industry-leading 1.2 million IOPS on a single port with extremely fast response times, as well as delivering consolidation and power per IOPS performance benefits."
"Today's high performance PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 PRIMERGY servers are capable of generating massive amounts of I/O to keep pace with customers' virtualization and application demands; this has made the role of the HBA more important than ever before," said Uwe Romppel, head of the product development group, Fujitsu Technology Solutions. "Emulex 16GFC technology continues to be relied upon by Fujitsu PRIMERGY customers for its industry leading performance, reliability, backward compatibility and simplified management."
Emulex field-proven 16GFC technology is ideal for customers using high-performance PCIe 3.0 Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers, and provides the following customer benefits:
-- Industry Leading Fibre Channel Performance: Emulex's latest 16GFC
technology delivers up to 1.2 million IOPS on a single port(1), enabling
its LightPulse HBAs to meet the needs of today's performance hungry
applications, SSDs and backup application demands. The architecture
enables all resources to be applied to any port that needs it, ensuring
SLAs are met. Competing HBAs are limited to half the IOPS per port(2),
preventing resource scaling between ports and potentially putting SLAs
at risk. Additionally, high performance Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers, which
include the latest Intel® Xeon® processors and support PCIe 3.0,
increase the total I/O bandwidth available to approximately quadruple
that of the previous generation of servers( 1), making them an ideal
match for the highest performing Emulex 16GFC HBAs.
-- Increased VM Densities: Emulex 16GFC HBAs leverage Emulex vScale(TM) for
superior scalability, supporting up to 255 virtual functions (VFs),
1024 Message Signal Interrupts Extended (MSI-X) and 8192 concurrent
logins and open exchanges, up to four times the number supported by
competing 16GFC HBAs(3), enabling support for more VMs per server than
ever before.
-- GreenState(TM) Power Efficiency: Emulex GreenState power management
reduces data center power consumption and associated operational
expenditures (OPEX) by delivering up to four times better IOPS
performance per watt over previous generations( 4).
-- Simplified and Time-Saving I/O Management: With a single driver model,
the Emulex 16GFC HBAs can be controlled, configured and managed from a
single console using Emulex OneCommand® Manager, enabling enterprise
scalability with time-saving features that provide more than twice the
management functionality and take half the time to install and manage
compared to other I/O solutions(5). Emulex OneCommand® Manager plug-in
for VMware vCenter(TM) Server allows users to manage Emulex adapters
across hundreds of servers, natively from the VMware vCenter Server
console. In addition, Emulex is the only HBA provider to support the
VMware vCenter 5.1 Web Client, providing administrators with the
flexibility to manage their HBAs with both the desktop and web client
with the same functionality.
-- Maximum Uptime to Meet SLAs: Emulex LightPulse HBAs deliver the highest
published reliability data with more than 10 million hours mean time
between failure (MTBF), run cooler and use passive heat sinks( 2).
1. Demartek Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation, October 2012
2. Demartek Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Feature Comparison,
December 2012
3. Based on Emulex Labs benchmark testing
4. Emulex LPe16000B data sheet
5. Based on Emulex Labs benchmark testing
Tweet This:Emulex #16GFC HBAs Now Available for @Fujitsu @PRIMERGY Servers: http://ow.ly/kx2nX
Follow Emulex on Twitter.
About Emulex
Emulex, the leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, provides hardware and software solutions for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government and telecommunications. Emulex's products enable unrivaled end-to-end application visibility, optimization and acceleration. The Company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of ultra high-performance Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity products, have been designed into server and storage solutions from leading OEMs, including Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp and Oracle, and can be found in the data centers of nearly all of the Fortune 1000. Emulex's monitoring and management solutions, including its portfolio of network visibility and recording products, provide organizations with complete network performance management at speeds up to 100Gb Ethernet. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) please visit http://www.Emulex.com.
"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, contain forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. We expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or changes to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect any future events or circumstances. We wish to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include the possibility that we may not realize the anticipated benefits from the acquisition of Endace on a timely basis or at all, and may be unable to integrate the technology, operations and personnel of Endace into our existing operations in a timely and efficient manner. In addition, intellectual property claims, with or without merit, that could result in costly litigation, cause product shipment delays, require us to indemnify customers, or require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements, which may or may not be available. Furthermore, we have in the past obtained, and may be required in the future to obtain, licenses of technology owned by other parties. We cannot be certain that the necessary licenses will be available or that they can be obtained on commercially reasonable terms. If we were to fail to obtain such royalty or licensing agreements in a timely manner and on reasonable terms, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected. Ongoing lawsuits, such as the action brought by Broadcom Corporation (Broadcom), present inherent risks, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations. Such potential risks include continuing expenses of litigation, risk of loss of patent rights, risk of monetary damages, risk of injunction against the sale of products incorporating the technology in question, counterclaims, attorneys' fees, incremental costs associated with product or component redesigns, and diversion of management's attention from other business matters. With respect to the continuing Broadcom litigation, such potential risks also include the adequacy of any sunset period to make design changes, the ability to implement any design changes, the availability of customer resources to complete any re-qualification or re-testing that may be needed, the ability to maintain favorable working relationships with Emulex suppliers of serializer/deserializer (SerDes) modules, and the ability to obtain a settlement which does not put us at a competitive disadvantage. In addition, the fact that the economy generally, and the technology and storage market segments specifically, have been in a state of uncertainty makes it difficult to determine if past experience is a good guide to the future and makes it impossible to determine if markets will grow or shrink in the short term. Continued weakness in domestic and worldwide macro-economic conditions, related disruptions in world credit and equity markets, and the resulting economic uncertainty for our customers, as well as the storage and converged networking market as a whole, has and could continue to adversely affect our revenues and results of operations. As a result of these uncertainties, we are unable to predict our future results with any accuracy. Other factors affecting these forward-looking statements include but are not limited to the following: faster than anticipated declines in the storage networking market, slower than expected growth of the converged networking market or the failure of our Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customers to successfully incorporate our products into their systems; our dependence on a limited number of customers and the effects of the loss of, decrease in or delays of orders by any such customers, or the failure of such customers to make timely payments; the emergence of new or stronger competitors as a result of consolidation movements in the market; the timing and market acceptance of our products or our OEM customers' new or enhanced products; costs associated with entry into new areas of the network, server and storage technology markets; the variability in the level of our backlog and the variable and seasonal procurement patterns of our customers; any inadequacy of our intellectual property protection and the costs of actual or potential third-party claims of infringement and any related indemnity obligations or adverse judgments; the effect of any actual or potential unsolicited offers to acquire us; proxy contests or the activities of activist investors; impairment charges, including but not limited to goodwill and intangible assets; changes in tax rates or legislation; the effects of acquisitions; the effects of terrorist activities, natural disasters, and any resulting disruption in our supply chain or customer purchasing patterns or any other resulting economic or political instability; the highly competitive nature of the markets for our products as well as pricing pressures that may result from such competitive conditions; the effects of changes in our business model to separately charge for software; the effect of rapid migration of customers towards newer, lower cost product platforms; transitions from board or box level to application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) solutions for selected applications; a shift in unit product mix from higher-end to lower-end or mezzanine card products; a faster than anticipated decrease in the average unit selling prices or an increase in the manufactured cost of our products; delays in product development; our reliance on third-party suppliers and subcontractors for components and assembly; our ability to attract and retain key technical personnel; our ability to benefit from our research and development activities; our dependence on international sales and internationally produced products; changes in accounting standards; and any resulting regulatory changes on our business. These and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements and are discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, under the caption "Risk Factors."
All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
Press Contacts:
Katherine Lane
Director, Corporate Communications
+1 714-885-3828
katherine.lane@emulex.com
Jolene Bonina
Senior Manager, Public Relations and Social Media
+1 714-885-3858
jolene.bonina@emulex.com
SOURCE Emulex Corporation
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Emulex Corporation
Web Site: http://www.emulex.com