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BULL SELECTS EMULEX HOST BUS ADAPTERS FOR ESCALA SERVERS

Emulex Corp, a leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), has announced that Bull Technologies has selected the Emulex LightPulse 2Gb/s LP9002L HBA for integration into the company's series of Escala servers.

The selection of Emulex's LP9002L HBA was based on its unique feature set, including compatibility of a single driver across all Emulex HBA generations and a firmware-based architecture, which helps to reduce management complexity and lowers the customer's total cost of ownership.

"Emulex HBAs provide Bull with a high-performance connectivity solution, which enhances the functionality, reliability and performance of our Escala family of servers," said Jean Brechon, Bull Technologies senior vice president.

"Bull is committed to working with industry leaders, such as Emulex, to provide best-in-class enterprise solutions that guarantee the same level of quality and customer satisfaction that we demand of our own family of products."

Emulex HBAs feature a unique architecture that enables forward and backward compatibility with both new and existing SAN installations. In addition, Emulex HBAs offer a firmware upgradeable architecture that protects customers' investments in storage networking solutions, by enabling a simplified upgrade path without requiring hardware replacement. The Emulex LP9002L also supports 2Gb/s Fibre Channel data rates and offers automatic speed negotiation.

"Bull offers its customers high-quality servers and storage solutions for the execution of mission-critical business processes, and we are pleased to have been selected as the connectivity solution for its Escala server series," said Mike Smith, Emulex executive vice president of worldwide marketing.

"Emulex is committed to the continued delivery of the industry's most robust and reliable connectivity solutions, and we will continue to work closely with Bull as it deploys both new and existing technologies."

The Emulex Family of Host Bus Adapters

The Emulex family of HBAs offers high-performance, standards-based connectivity solutions for both Fibre Channel and Internet protocol (IP) storage networking environments. Emulex host bus adapters provide a unique combination of features required for mission-critical enterprise environments that deliver reliability, high bandwidth, server CPU offload, low latency and scalable connectivity.

Emulex HBAs also offer a unique driver architecture that enables compatibility of a single operating system driver across Emulex's entire product line and a firmware-based architecture. These features help to lower the customer's total cost of ownership and reduce management complexity, while enabling a seamless migration path to next-generation technologies.

For information about how Emulex HBAs increase SAN productivity and efficiency, visit the Emulex Web site and download the IDC whitepaper titled, "Measuring the HBA's Role in SAN Management."

Additional information about the role Emulex HBAs play in simplifying SAN management is available by downloading Emulex's whitepaper titled, "HBAnyware -- A Centralized HBA Management Suite." Emulex's HBAnyware whitepaper describes the benefits of its driver-based technology that enables complete management of Emulex HBAs, including the ability to upgrade firmware anywhere in a Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN from a single console.

Emulex LightPulse family of Fibre Channel HBAs offers full fabric support, high-data integrity, full-duplex operation, data buffering for up to 100km of cabling and support for all Fibre Channel topologies. The Emulex LightPulse family of Fibre Channel products includes the 2Gb/s LP9802 and LP982 PCI-X HBAs, the LP9002L and LP952L PCI HBAs, the LP9002C CompactPCI HBA, the LP9002S SBus-based HBA and the market-leading LP8000.

The Emulex family of IP-based storage networking host bus adapters includes the GN9000/SI iSCSI host bus adapter and the GN9000/VI VI/IP host bus adapter. The Emulex GN9000/SI is designed to provide the high-performance iSCSI connectivity over gigabit Ethernet for PCI-based systems.

The Emulex GN9000/VI VI/IP HBA enables network attached storage (NAS) appliances and hosts to exchange file system data over IP networks, while gaining the high throughput, low latency and reduced CPU overhead benefits of the virtual interface (VI) architecture. For more information on the Emulex product families, visit www.emulex.com.

About Emulex

Emulex is a leading supplier and developer of storage networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies. The Emulex product families are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership.

The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, INRANGE, Intel, Legato, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners.

Emulex markets to OEMs and end-users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Info-X, Netmarks, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa. News releases and other information about Emulex are available at www.emulex.com.

Contact: Robin Austin, Emulex Corp, 714-513-8152, robin.austin@emulex.com.