Fujitsu Adopts Emulex FC-to-SATA Bridges

Emulex Corporation
announced that its BR-2401 embedded storage bridges
are now shipping in Fujitsu Limited’s ETERNUS® family of disk storage
systems. The Emulex BR-2401 solution enables low-cost SATA drives to be
used transparently within existing Fibre Channel enclosures, reducing
the development time required to bring a FC-to-SATA tiered storage
solution to market.

"Emulex’s versatile bridging technology provides SATA hard disk
drive (HDD) connectivity that allows our OEM customers, such as
Fujitsu, to leverage their investments in Fibre Channel, saving time
and money," said Bob Whitson, senior vice president and general
manager, Embedded Storage Products, Emulex Corp. "This design win
signifies the continued adoption of our embedded storage products as
the most effective method for deploying SATA disk drives within Fibre
Channel-based enterprise storage environments."

The Emulex BR-2401 is a highly integrated FC-to-SATA storage bridge,
which may be deployed as a chip- or circuit board-level solution.
Designed to provide transparent emulation of Fibre Channel disk drives,
the Emulex BR-2401 enables our customers to deliver a versatile,
low-cost storage solution that meets the high capacity needs of the
enterprise. The Emulex BR-2401 enables the insertion of SATA HDDs into
any Fibre Channel drive slot or shelf within a storage system. Emulex’s
proven FC-to-SATA bridging technology is the industry’s leading
solution, with over 80 percent of the top storage vendors deploying
Emulex’s embedded storage bridges.

"By combining Emulex’s BR-2401-based multi-protocol tiered storage
interposer circuit board with Fujitsu’s ETERNUS storage systems, we are
able to offer customers a unrestricted freedom of inter-mixing Fibre
Channel and SATA disk drives within the same enclosure, allowing for
maximum system flexibility," said Tetsuro Kudo, general manager,
Storage Systems Division, Storage Systems Unit, Fujitsu Limited.
"Emulex’s enterprise storage systems embedded expertise complements our
advanced ETERNUS family of storage solutions by enhancing flexibility
and cost effectiveness for our customers."

The full line of Emulex’s Embedded Storage Products including,
InSpeed and FibreSpy Fibre Channel embedded storage switches, embedded
bridges and I/O products, are utilized by Fujitsu Limited. In addition,
Emulex host bus adapters are utilized in Fujitsu server and Fibre
Channel storage solutions. Emulex has an installed base of more than 25
million embedded storage ports and its embedded technologies are used
by the top 10 storage OEMs.

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