COSTA MESA, Calif., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/–Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX) today announced broad partner adoption of its LightPulse® 16Gb Fibre Channel (16GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) worldwide, for joint virtualization, flash storage and data archiving and backup solutions. DataCore™ Software, GreenBytes, Pure Storage, Quantum, and X-IO have certified Emulex 16GFC HBAs with their solutions, enabling the most scalable solutions for databases, virtualized and transaction-intensive environments in today’s demanding data centers. Emulex 16GFC HBAs are the most widely deployed 16GFC HBAs by OEMs, with more than 70 percent of the overall revenue market share for 2012¹.

“Partners and appliance integrators continue to certify and adopt Emulex 16GFC I/O connectivity solutions because we offer the best performing HBA available today, enabling the most compelling application throughput and I/O scalability,” said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. “In addition, our superior reliability and extensive interoperability testing allows for seamless deployment across multiple platforms.”

Three key technologies that require the performance and low latency benefits of Emulex 16GFC adapters include virtualization, flash storage and data backup and recovery. Partners have certified Emulex 16GFC HBAs in the following ways:

Virtualization:

• DataCore Software: Emulex LightPulse 16GFC HBAs have been qualified as “DataCore Ready” ensuring interoperability with DataCore’s SANsymphony™-V storage hypervisor. SANsymphony-V leverages Emulex technology to circumvent bottlenecks associated with storage networking and maximize the capabilities of DataCore’s storage virtualization software as it augments virtual and physical IT environments to get the highest availability, fastest performance and maximum utilization from online disks.

• GreenBytes: Emulex 16GFC HBAs are certified for use with GreenBytes’ IO Offload Engine, a desktop virtualization solution, maximizing the effective performance and capacity of existing infrastructure to provide persistent, full-featured virtual desktops with the manageability, scalability and affordability required for cloud-scale virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments.

Flash Storage:

• Pure Storage: Emulex 16GFC HBAs are certified for use with the Pure Storage FA-series FlashArray from Pure Storage. Emulex HBAs enable faster connectivity for the FA-series, which is part of the ultra-low latency experience that FlashArray users need for enterprise applications, such as virtual desktops infrastructure, databases and analytics platforms, virtualized server environments and cloud environments.

• X-IO Technologies: Emulex 16GFC HBAs are certified for use with the X-IO ISE-2 and Hyper ISE storage system, X-IO’s purpose-built hybrid storage solution for server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, and other database management system (DBMS) applications with multitenant workloads generating near-simultaneous I/O requests to shared storage resources. Combined, this optimized solution is a simple and efficient way to rapidly deliver critical information across the enterprise, for the life of the solution.

Data Archiving and Backup

• Quantum: The Quantum LTO6 drives within the Quantum Scalar i500 and i6000 libraries leverage Emulex 16GFC HBAs to deliver increased bandwidth for improved backup and recovery performance. This is important as applications drive increased storage growth, resulting in the need for robust and rapid backup to minimize both data loss and downtime.

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“Our longstanding partnership with Emulex has benefited thousands of customers around the world. The Emulex 16GFC HBAs deliver very high throughput and low latency, key to enabling deployments of densely virtualized servers,” said Carlos M. Carreras, vice president of alliances and business development at DataCore Software. “Combined, DataCore’s SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor with Emulex 16GFC technology addresses the performance, availability and scalability needs of today’s mission-critical applications such as Oracle, SAP and SQL in virtual environments.”

“Delivering desktop applications to hundreds or thousands of end users as a managed centralized service places heavy demands on centralized storage, a problem that is exceptionally well addressed with 16GFC connectivity for the back-end servers,” said Bob Petrocelli, founder and CTO, GreenBytes. “Emulex 16GFC HBAs are an ideal complement to GreenBytes’ IO Offload Engine because of their efficiency and performance per watt, which is necessary for the toughest desktop virtualization environments today.”

“Flash memory is on pace to replace the spinning hard drive in performance storage, but is too expensive to deploy broadly. Pure Storage’s all-flash storage array overcomes this price challenge, delivering hundreds of terabytes of high-performance flash in a highly-available, plug-compatible array form-factor, all for less than the cost of spinning disk,” said Matt Kixmoeller, vice president, products, Pure Storage. “By certifying Emulex’s LightPulse 16GFC HBAs with our array, we enable faster and more flexible connectivity solutions for our customers.”

“Quantum’s Scalar i500 and i6000 libraries are ideal for long-term data storage and archiving for enterprises faced with massive data growth that needs to be stored for longer periods of time for compliance reasons or because it is business-critical,” said Eric Bassier, director of product marketing, Quantum. “These companies need a cost-effective, reliable, and easy-to-manage solution with options to scale from terabytes up to many petabytes, and when coupled with Emulex 16GFC HBAs, Quantum’s Scalar libraries deliver improved backup and recovery performance to address customers’ data storage requirements, now and in the future.”

“X-IO’s ISE-2 and Hyper ISE storage systems are geared towards a performance and capacity balance for server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing and I/O-intensive DBMS applications, where maximum performance and low TCO are required,” said Blair Parkhill, vice president of marketing, X-IO. “Together with Emulex 16GFC HBAs, we can rapidly deliver critical information across the enterprise, support larger server virtualization deployments and scalable cloud initiatives, and offer the performance to match new multi-core processors, and faster server host bus architectures.”

¹ Dell’Oro Group’s Q4 2012 Fibre Channel Adapter Vendor, February 2013

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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 www.Emulex.com.

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“Blair’s aptitude and contributions have been invaluable and he embodies so many of the wonderful traits of our company. His innovative thinking and vision will continue to enhance the strategic direction, growth, and profitability of X-IO,” said Beletic.

Parkhill joined the technical marketing team at X-IO in 2010 and quickly advanced to the role of Director of Product Management and Product Marketing. His fifteen years of industry experience in customer-focused technology solutions and technical marketing made him a natural fit for the current promotion. Prior to his position with X-IO, Parkhill served in technical and management positions with Compaq Computer Corporation and Hewlett-Packard, responsible for testing and delivering application-focused solutions through outbound marketing collateral, training, and public speaking at industry events.

As Vice President of Marketing at X-IO, Parkhill will oversee marketing operations, product management, alliances, and analyst relations while guiding the definition and demonstration of X-IO’s vision.

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About X-IO
X-IO is a recognized innovator in the storage industry due to its award-winning Intelligent Storage systems, which leverage over two decades of expertise to deliver unmatched price/performance for enterprise applications. The company’s plug-and-perform Intelligent Storage solutions are customer proven to accelerate transactional, reporting, and business intelligence applications by a factor of 3X or more. While dramatically reducing storage costs and footprint, X-IO Intelligent Storage drives extreme performance for virtual desktop and server infrastructures. X-IO solutions have been recognized as SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro‘s 2012 Editors’ Best Gold Medal winners, the 2012 Best of TechEd “Hardware and Storage Product” and “Attendees’ Pick” Awards, and inclusion in CRN‘s 2012 Data Center 100 List.
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Colorado Springs, CO, February 4, 2013—Storage industry innovator X-IO Technologies today announced that it has been named as a hardware partner for the worldwide network of Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs). This partnership will allow enterprise customers to test X-IO’s ISE intelligent storage elements as part of the high-performance MTC architecture, ultimately facilitating clear technical documentation about the crucial role played by storage in data center performance.

“X-IO is a strong addition to our Alliances Program, providing a unique storage solution that helps users get the most out of their Microsoft deployments,” said Chuck McCann, Worldwide MTC Alliances Program Director, Microsoft. “Its ISE solutions have performed very impressively with Microsoft software to date, and we look forward to further testing in our technology centers.”

MTCs are collaborative environments that provide Microsoft customers with access to innovative technologies and world-class expertise, enabling them to envision, design, and deploy solutions to meet their exact needs. The MTC Alliances program comprises industry leaders in hardware, software and services who provide their resources to these environments. By working together to create and drive joint initiatives and offerings, the MTCs and their partners provide customers with the newest and most cutting edge products and services during an MTC engagement.

“X-IO is delighted to expand our already robust working relationship with Microsoft,” said Rick Nelson, VP, X-IO. “This program will clearly demonstrate how X-IO’s cost effective, high performance storage plays a critical role in getting the most out of Microsoft’s modern operating system, server and productivity software.”

About X-IO
X-IO is a recognized innovator in the storage industry due to its award-winning Intelligent Storage systems, which leverage over two decades of expertise to deliver unmatched price/performance for enterprise applications. The company’s plug-and-perform Intelligent Storage solutions are customer proven to accelerate transactional, reporting and business intelligence applications by a factor of 3X or more. While dramatically reducing storage costs and footprint, X-IO Intelligent Storage drives extreme performance for virtual desktop and server infrastructures. X-IO solutions have been recognized as SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro‘s 2012 Editors’ Best Gold Medal winners, the 2012 Best of TechEd “Hardware and Storage Product” and “Attendees’ Pick” Awards, and inclusion in CRN‘s 2012 Data Center 100 List.
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Colorado Springs, CO, January 15, 2013—Storage industry innovator X-IO Technologies today announced ISE Station XL, the newest member of its ISE Station X family of data storage solutions. Available now, the second generation ISE Station XL is a pre-configured storage solution that offers 1 petabyte (1024 terabytes) of capacity and delivers over 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) in a dense, energy-efficient package. ISE Station XL accelerates enterprise applications and provides unmatched price/performance—all with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) in the industry.

Designed for datacenter operations and cloud-based service providers who need both high performance and high capacity, ISE Station XL provides built-in support for major virtualization engines from Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft, removing SAN controller bottlenecks and complexity from large-scale virtualization architectures. ISE Station XL consumes only 34.56 square feet (3.21 square meters) of floor space and 28 kilowatts of energy, while producing a heat load of only 95,536 BTUs and offering the lowest power and cooling requirements in the industry.

Fully compatible with today’s leading operating systems and hypervisors, the innovative design of the ISE Station XL makes it easily expandable, beyond 1 petabyte, when needed. Housed in just four 42U racks, the ISE Station XL addresses the needs of enterprise customers with its superior ease of management, low support costs and X-IO’s unique five-year hardware warranty.

X-IO CTO Steve Sicola called the release of the ISE Station XL the next logical step in the evolution of X-IO large-scale storage offerings. Sicola stated, “Since storage is the single most significant component of the cost of deployment in large-scale datacenter environments and cloud services, we are tuning the ISE Station product line to focus on reducing that cost-of-deployment significantly—at minimum, by a third—while guaranteeing capacity and performance-at-scale.”

About X-IO
X-IO is a recognized innovator in the storage industry due to its award-winning Intelligent Storage systems, which leverage over two decades of expertise to deliver unmatched price/performance for enterprise applications. The company’s plug-and-perform Intelligent Storage solutions are customer proven to accelerate transactional, reporting and business intelligence applications by a factor of 3X or more. While dramatically reducing storage costs and footprint, X-IO Intelligent Storage drives extreme performance for virtual desktop and server infrastructures. X-IO solutions have been recognized as SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro‘s 2012 Editors’ Best Gold Medal winners, the 2012 Best of TechEd “Hardware and Storage Product” and “Attendees’ Pick” Awards, and inclusion in CRN‘s 2012 Data Center 100 List.
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Colorado Springs, CO, November 19, 2012 – Storage industry innovator X-IO today announced that its advanced Intelligent Storage system Hyper ISE has won two gold medals in the Penton Technology Group’s 2012 Editor’s Best Awards. For the second year in a row, both Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro have awarded the product highest honors in the “Best Hardware: Storage” category.

Editors’ Best awards are given to products that Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro editors believe are the best of breed products in their respective categories. Products and services are evaluated for their strategic importance to the market, competitive advantages, and value to the customer.

“It is truly an honor to receive these accolades from Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro, two of the most respected IT publications on the market,” said Rick Nelson, VP, X-IO. “We are gratified that the editors have once again recognized Hyper ISE’s superior reliability, energy efficiency and price/performance, all backed by our unprecedented five-year warranty.”

X-IO designed its Intelligent Storage Elements and architecture from the ground up to accelerate enterprise applications and drive unmatched storage price/performance, even for big data needs. Each X-IO ISE unit is a completely self-contained storage building block. The Hyper ISE version features clustered on-board controllers that manage a performance pool comprised of both HDDs and SSDs. Exceptionally high throughput performance is achieved by X-IO’s Continuous Adaptive Data Placement (CADP) software, which monitors I/Os in real-time, ensuring that high demand data hotspots reside on the faster SSD. ISE is uniquely designed to scale so that no matter how many ISE units are added to increase capacity, full storage performance is maintained. ISE units from X-IO are major environmental upgrades to a data center due to their low energy consumption and low HVAC loads.

About X-IO
X-IO is a recognized innovator in the storage industry due to its award-winning Intelligent Storage systems, which leverage over two decades of expertise to deliver unmatched price/performance for enterprise applications. The company’s plug-and-perform Intelligent Storage solutions are customer proven to accelerate transactional, reporting and business intelligence applications by a factor of 3X or more. While dramatically reducing storage costs and footprint, X-IO Intelligent Storage drives extreme performance for virtual desktop and server infrastructures. X-IO solutions have been recognized as SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro‘s 2012 Editors’ Best Gold Medal winners, the 2012 Best of TechEd “Hardware and Storage Product” and “Attendees’ Pick” Awards, and inclusion in CRN‘s 2012 Data Center 100 List.
www.x-io.com

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Mark Prindle
Fusion PR for X-IO
212-651-4223
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