ADVISORY/Emulex Addresses Storage Industry Leaders At HP's ENSA 2003; Michael Smith, Emulex EVP of Worldwide Marketing Presents Solutions to Simplify and Enhance SAN Management.

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ADVISORY...for Wednesday & Thursday (Jan. 22 & 23)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Emulex Corp. (NYSE:ELX)

WHAT:          Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide
               marketing for Emulex Corp. (NYSE:ELX) (www.emulex.com),
               will be speaking on a panel titled "How Intelligent
               Connectivity Solutions Help to Simplify and Enhance SAN
               Management," at the HP ENSA Show in Amsterdam, on Jan.
               22, 2003. Smith will illustrate the host bus adapter's
               role in SAN management and how it can be utilized to
               enhance storage management capabilities, reduce costs
               and planned downtime, while increasing IT efficiency.

               Smith will also be discussing the company's recently
               announced HBAnyware technology, a centralized HBA
               management suite that allows HBA firmware upgrades
               anywhere in a Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN from a single
               console. Information on Emulex's HBAnyware and
               market-leading family of LightPulse HBAs is available
               in Booth 17.

WHO:           During his tenure at Emulex, Smith has played a key
               role in positioning the company as global leader in the
               storage networking industry. Smith has been with Emulex
               for three years and has more than 17 years of industry
               experience. He also brings a strong technical
               background to his position.

               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 Compaq, Dell,
               EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard Co.,
               Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and
               Unisys.

WHEN:          Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2003 at 12:15 p.m. and
               Thursday, Jan. 23, 2003 at 10 a.m.

WHERE:         Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre
               Amsterdam