Several Firms Adopting Emulex 16Gb FC HBAs

Emulex
Corporation announced partner adoption of its LightPulse 16Gb FC (16GFC)
HBAs, for joint virtualization, flash storage and archiving and backup
solutions.

DataCore Software Corporation, GreenBytes, Inc., Pure Storage, Inc., Quantum Corporation, and X-IO Technologies have certified
Emulex 16GFC HBAs with their solutions, enabling scalable solutions for
databases, virtualized and transaction-intensive environments in demanding
data centers. 16GFC HBAs are the most widely deployed 16GFC HBAs by
OEMs, with more than 70% of the overall revenue market share for 2012.

"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, SVP 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 backup and recovery. Partners have certified
Emulex 16GFC HBAs in the following ways:

Virtualization:

• 
  DataCore: LightPulse 16GFC HBAs have been qualified as ‘DataCore Ready’ ensuring interoperability with SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor.  It 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: 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 VDI (VDI)
  deployments.

Flash
Storage:

• Pure Storage: 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 low
  latency experience that FlashArray users need for enterprise applications, such
  as VDI, databases and analytics platforms, virtualized server environments and
  cloud environments.
• X-IO: 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 applications with
  multi-tenant workloads generating near-simultaneous I/O requests to shared
  storage resources. Combined, this solution is a
  way to rapidly deliver information across the enterprise, for the life of the solution.

Data
Archiving and Backup:

• 
  Quantum:  The Quantum LTO6 drives within the Scalar i500 and i6000 libraries leverage 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.

"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, VP of alliances
and business development at DataCore. "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 HDD in performance storage, but is
too expensive to deploy broadly. Pure Storage’s all-flash storage array
overcomes this price challenge, delivering hundreds of TBs 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, VP 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 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’ 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, VP 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."