Emulex Delivers Multi-Fabric I/O Connectivity for Huawei Tecal E9000 Converged Infrastructure Blade Servers
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Posted on June 3, 2013 at 8:14:01 AM
Emulex Delivers Multi-Fabric I/O Connectivity for Huawei Tecal E9000 Converged Infrastructure Blade Servers
Huawei MZ910 Adapter Based on Emulex Single Chip Quad-port I/O Controller Supporting Both 10Gb Ethernet and High-Performance 8Gb Fibre Channel
COSTA MESA, Calif., June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the newly introduced Huawei MZ910 adapter, leveraging Emulex Engine(TM) (XE)201 I/O Controller technology, which is capable of both Fibre Channel and Ethernet-based connectivity. The Huawei MZ910 adapter delivers selectable 8Gb Fibre Channel (8GFC) and 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE)-based connectivity for the Huawei Tecal E9000 converged infrastructure blade servers.
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"The Emulex XE201 enables unique quad-port, multi-fabric configurations for enterprise data centers leveraging the Huawei Tecal E9000 converged infrastructure blade servers," said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. "For the first time, customers have the ability to select a multitude of high performance combinations, on the same PCI Express (PCIe) card, delivering the flexibility needed for next generation, dynamic data center environments."
The Huawei MZ910 adapter delivers four ports of either 8GFC, 10GbE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or iSCSI connectivity, enabling unique I/O density and high-availability configurations and provides the following key benefits:
-- Flexible, High Performance, SAN and LAN Connectivity: The Huawei MZ910
Adapter is a multi-fabric adapter with selectable 8GFC and 10GbE-based
capabilities, allowing one adapter to do the work of a discrete Fibre
Channel HBA or an Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC), with support
and offload for Fibre Channel and FCoE storage protocols, resulting in
fewer cables, fewer switches, better power efficiency, reduced cooling,
and easier local area network (LAN) and storage area network (SAN)
management.
-- PCIe 3.0 support and 6x more IOPS In 8GFC mode: The Huawei MZ910
Adapters support up to 1.2 million I/O operations per second (IOPS)( 1);
which is 6x more than other 8GFC adapters. These adapters also support
PCIe 3.0, which provides a faster I/O bus, more PCIe lanes and increased
I/O bandwidth, enabling these adapters to match the performance
capabilities of server platforms based on the new Intel® Xeon®
processor E5-2600 product family.
-- Increased Virtual Machine (VM) Densities: The Emulex XE201 leverages
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, enabling support for more VMs
per server.
-- Efficient I/O Management: The Huawei MZ910 Adapter running in FC or
10GbE mode uses a single driver, and 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(2). 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.
"The Huawei E9000 is a new-generation blade server that integrates computing, storage, switching, and management subsystems to form a powerful converged infrastructure platform," said Yao Yimin, server system architect, Huawei. "Emulex industry-leading converged networking technology significantly improves the competitiveness of the E9000 with its flexible I/O capabilities, converged architecture, storage expansion compute node capabilities, low network latency, and acceleration functions."
1. Demartek Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation, October 2012
2. Based on Emulex Labs benchmark testing
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About Emulex
Emulex, a 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, loss of patent rights, monetary damages, injunctions against the sale of products incorporating the technology in question, counterclaims, attorneys' fees, incremental costs associated with product or component redesigns, liabilities to customers under reimbursement agreements or contractual indemnification provisions, 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."
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Press Contact:
Jolene Bonina
Senior Manager, Public Relations and Social Media
+1 714-885-3858
jolene.bonina@emulex.com
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Huawei MZ910 Adapter Based on Emulex Single Chip Quad-port I/O Controller Supporting Both 10Gb Ethernet and High-Performance 8Gb Fibre Channel
COSTA MESA, Calif., June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the newly introduced Huawei MZ910 adapter, leveraging Emulex Engine(TM) (XE)201 I/O Controller technology, which is capable of both Fibre Channel and Ethernet-based connectivity. The Huawei MZ910 adapter delivers selectable 8Gb Fibre Channel (8GFC) and 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE)-based connectivity for the Huawei Tecal E9000 converged infrastructure blade servers.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120403/NE81278LOGO )
"The Emulex XE201 enables unique quad-port, multi-fabric configurations for enterprise data centers leveraging the Huawei Tecal E9000 converged infrastructure blade servers," said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. "For the first time, customers have the ability to select a multitude of high performance combinations, on the same PCI Express (PCIe) card, delivering the flexibility needed for next generation, dynamic data center environments."
The Huawei MZ910 adapter delivers four ports of either 8GFC, 10GbE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or iSCSI connectivity, enabling unique I/O density and high-availability configurations and provides the following key benefits:
-- Flexible, High Performance, SAN and LAN Connectivity: The Huawei MZ910
Adapter is a multi-fabric adapter with selectable 8GFC and 10GbE-based
capabilities, allowing one adapter to do the work of a discrete Fibre
Channel HBA or an Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC), with support
and offload for Fibre Channel and FCoE storage protocols, resulting in
fewer cables, fewer switches, better power efficiency, reduced cooling,
and easier local area network (LAN) and storage area network (SAN)
management.
-- PCIe 3.0 support and 6x more IOPS In 8GFC mode: The Huawei MZ910
Adapters support up to 1.2 million I/O operations per second (IOPS)( 1);
which is 6x more than other 8GFC adapters. These adapters also support
PCIe 3.0, which provides a faster I/O bus, more PCIe lanes and increased
I/O bandwidth, enabling these adapters to match the performance
capabilities of server platforms based on the new Intel® Xeon®
processor E5-2600 product family.
-- Increased Virtual Machine (VM) Densities: The Emulex XE201 leverages
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, enabling support for more VMs
per server.
-- Efficient I/O Management: The Huawei MZ910 Adapter running in FC or
10GbE mode uses a single driver, and 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(2). 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.
"The Huawei E9000 is a new-generation blade server that integrates computing, storage, switching, and management subsystems to form a powerful converged infrastructure platform," said Yao Yimin, server system architect, Huawei. "Emulex industry-leading converged networking technology significantly improves the competitiveness of the E9000 with its flexible I/O capabilities, converged architecture, storage expansion compute node capabilities, low network latency, and acceleration functions."
1. Demartek Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation, October 2012
2. Based on Emulex Labs benchmark testing
Tweet This:Emulex Delivers Multi-Fabric I/O Connectivity for @Huawei Tecal E9000 Converged Infrastructure Blade Servers http://ow.ly/ld3N0
Follow Emulex on Twitter.
About Emulex
Emulex, a 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, loss of patent rights, monetary damages, injunctions against the sale of products incorporating the technology in question, counterclaims, attorneys' fees, incremental costs associated with product or component redesigns, liabilities to customers under reimbursement agreements or contractual indemnification provisions, 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 Contact:
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