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Emulex Announces General Availability of its OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapters and OneCommand Manager: Page 2 of 4

With the release of the OneConnect UCNAs, Emulex is delivering a new converged management application, OneCommand Manager, which supersedes Emulex's highly acclaimed HBAnyware?? management application. OneCommand Manager provides comprehensive administration of Emulex OneConnect UCNAs and LightPulse?? Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) within a centralized, cross-platform framework. OneCommand Manager consists of a powerful suite of diagnostic tools and customizable reporting capabilities that help data center administrators optimize network performance and availability.

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"Ethernet is virtually ubiquitous. Deploying an Ethernet-based unified fabric that can address the requirements of storage networking offers numerous benefits to IT administrators. Dell and Emulex are working together to make this vision a reality with Ethernet-based solutions that are easy to deploy, use and manage," said Larry Hart, WW senior manager of storage and network product marketing, Dell. "Emulex's single-chip, high performance 10Gb/s Ethernet platform simplifies I/O choices and deployment in the data center by providing connectivity for Ethernet, iSCSI and FCoE traffic with multi-function server adapters. The introduction of Emulex's OneConnect product family managed by OneCommand delivers upon the promise of a unified server adapter."

"Tech Data supports value-added resellers deploying data center solutions for end users of all sizes in the public and private sectors," said IT products distributor Tech Data Corporation Senior Vice President and General Manager, Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Pete Peterson. "New solutions like server and storage virtualization are creating substantial gains in efficiency, but they also are redirecting computing resources and adding new layers of complexity. With networking solutions like the Emulex OneConnect, value-added resellers can deploy the IT infrastructure that enables users to take full advantage of a modern, optimized data center."

"Computacenter prides itself on working with vendor partners to deliver innovative solutions and service which demonstrably reduce customer data centre costs, space, and related management challenges," said Matthew Yeager, Computacenter Practice Leader for Data Storage and Protection. "Emulex is a key partner in our delivery of storage and networking connectivity and we're working closely with them to solve these challenges by jointly bringing network convergence solutions to the European market."