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Emulex Announces IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric Design Win For Flexible 10Gb/s Ethernet Network Connectivity: Page 2 of 3

With IBM BladeCenter HS22 blades and BLADE Network Technologies convergence-ready BNT 10-port 10G Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter, customers can leverage up to eight Ethernet NIC and two Fibre Channel ports when they combine the Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter cFFH with Emulex's LightPulse?? 8Gb/s Fibre Channel CIOv Expansion Card, delivering maximum flexibility and scalability. These connectivity options make it an ideal blade solution for VMware virtualized server environments, in which it is recommended to use multiple connections for different traffic types.

"BLADE's convergence-ready switch, which is FCoE ready, automatically recognizes Emulex's Virtual Fabric Adapter and has the ability to connect massive virtualization environments that span thousands of virtual switch ports, helping simplify management and improve performance for today's agile workloads," said Dan Tuchler, vice president of Product Management and Strategy, BLADE Network Technologies. "Working with Emulex and IBM to deliver this combined solution confirms that BLADE switches are today's best choice for next-generation data center networks."

The Emulex OneConnect UCNA platform is the only converged network connectivity solution that supports hardware offload and acceleration on a single chip for all major protocols: TCP/IP, TOE, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The OneConnect UCNA is optimized to support both IP and storage networking demands, enabling data center managers to meet the performance and architecture requirements of networking and storage applications with one integrated adapter solution. The Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter utilizes the OneCommand??? software management framework for secure, virtualized, automated and centralized enterprise management for deployment, dynamic provisioning, asset management, virtual I/O services, connectivity management, security, and quality of service for virtualized and converged networking environments.

The combination of the IBM BladeCenter server, BLADE's convergence-ready BNT 10-port 10G Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter and Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter CFFh for IBM BladeCenter provides customers with a new a new level of data center consolidation, efficiency, flexibility and scalability. Visit Emulex at VMworld, booth #1937, in San Francisco, Calif., August 31-September 3, 2009 to learn more about this solution.
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.

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