Emulex Corporation (ELX) is a provider of enterprise-class solutions and technologies that intelligently connect storage, services and networks to ensure data access that’s open, secure and adaptable. The company’s award-winning Emulex HBAs consists of intelligent storage platforms and embedded storage products, including switches, bridges, routers and I/O controllers that build reliable, scalable and high performance stories and server solutions for the most demanding of data centers. The company, based in Costa Mesa, California, has been in operation for nearly 30 years.

The company announced today that its LightPulse® LP21000 family of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapts (CNAs) have been certified for use with NetApp’s newly announced native FCoE and Fibre Channel SAN storage solutions. The Emulex LP21000 family of CNAs leverages Fibre Channel SAN technology, allowing companies to extend their existing investments in infrastructure, management, training and processes. Emulex CNAs enable lower operational costs by reducing the number of cards inside servers, network ports and cables by at least 50 percent.

By certifying the CNAs with its new native FCoE SAN storage solution, NetApp is enabling customers to further consolidate their data centers over time by converging Fibre Channel and networking traffic over a 10Gb/s Enhanced Ethernet network, resulting in more streamlined IT operations and higher staff productivity. The CNAs also support Emulex’s Virtual HBA technology with industry-standard N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), allowing customer to “virtualize” SAN connections. By doing so, customers have the ability to track the chargeback storage utilization at the virtual machine level using the company’s HBAnyware management suite.

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