COSTA MESA, Calif., April 18, 2002 -Emulex Corporation (NASDAQ: EMLX), the world’s leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), announced today it will provide the Fibre Channel connectivity solution for Hewlett-Packard Company’s HP Surestore NAS 8000 series of storage solutions. The Emulex LP952L, which is embedded into the HP solution, enables connectivity for direct-attached and SAN-attached configurations. When this type of high performance NAS solution is implemented, customers will be able to extend their storage capacity to more than 15 terabytes.

"Our relationship with HP has resulted in a variety of both hardware and software development initiatives and helped enable HP to deliver powerful and high availability storage networking capabilities," said Kirk Roller, Emulex Chief Operating Officer. "Emulex’s sophisticated HBA architecture continues to offer customers best-in-class features, and we are confident that HP customers will benefit from our joint development efforts."

The Emulex family of HBAs fully complements the HP Surestore NAS 8000 series by offering a firmware-based architecture and operating system driver compatibility across Emulex’s entire HBA product line, which provides customers with a simplified upgrade path, reduced management complexities and also ensures a lower total cost of ownership. Today’s announcement extends Emulex’s relationship with HP and builds upon other recently announced design wins, which include certification of the Emulex LP8000 and LP9002L to enable connectivity for the HP Surestore disk arrays XP512, XP48 and the VA7100.

"The HP Surestore NAS 8000 series is designed to ensure data availability, maximize uptime and provide customers 24x7x365 reliability," said Neal Clapper, general manager, HP Network Storage Array Solutions. "We are confident the Emulex connectivity solution, with its unique product architecture, will exceed the expectations of our NAS and SAN customers."

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. For information about how Emulex HBAs increase SAN productivity and efficiency, please visit the Emulex website and download the IDC whitepaper titled, Measuring the HBA’s Role in SAN Management.

The 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 LP9002L and LP952L, low profile HBAs, the 2Gb/s LP9002C CompactPCI HBA, the 2Gb/s LP9002S SBus-based HBA and the market-leading LP8000.

The Emulex family of IP-based storage networking host bus adapters includes the recently announced 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, please visit www.emulex.com.

About Emulex

Emulex Corporation (NASDAQ: EMLX) 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 Compaq, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, 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, Arrow, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Info-X, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at www.emulex.com.

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