Brocade and Emulex Deliver Centralized Switch and HBA Management and Security For Storage Area Networks; Storage Networking Leaders First to Deliver Unified, Standards-Based Implementation of HBA and Switch Management and Security.

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (Brocade(R)) , the world's leading provider of infrastructure solutions for Storage Area Networks (SANs), and Emulex Corporation , the world's leading supplier of storage networking Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), today announced availability of unified management for HBAs and switches using the Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI) and Emulex's HBAnyware(TM). FDMI is an industry standard fabric-based database that hosts management information related to fabric-connected devices, including HBAs. Emulex HBAnyware is a centralized HBA management suite incorporating driver-based technology to enable complete management of Emulex HBAs and the ability to upgrade firmware anywhere in a SAN from a single, remote console. The combination of FDMI and HBAnyware allows one switch-based application to manage the entire fabric, reducing the need for agents, and simplifying time-consuming management tasks.

Brocade and Emulex are the first in the industry to harness the power of FDMI to allow switches and HBAs to be managed from a central point, reducing the complexity and cost of managing SANs and helping simplify change management by reducing the number of management touch points. In addition, Brocade and Emulex deliver an open API strategy that allows these capabilities to be delivered through third party SAN management applications.

Brocade and Emulex have also established a SAN security architecture that includes both HBAs and switches, providing a more secure fabric based on standards-based, policy-based authentication and encryption technologies. The companies have extended fabric security to the HBA by jointly architecting the Fibre Channel Authentication Protocol (FCAP) standard to include HBAs. Brocade has already delivered FCAP-based products for switch-to-switch security, and the companies have proposed this to the T11 standards committee. These new capabilities are made available to end-users in the latest versions of Brocade's Fabric OS, the new version of Brocade Fabric Manager, announced earlier this week, and in SAN management applications from third party software developers who use the Brocade Fabric Access API.

"Until now, we had to manage switches and HBAs individually with disparate tools, multiplying efforts across each application," said Andy Porter, Lead Storage Architect, St. Vincent Hospital. "We are pleased to see Brocade and Emulex step up and deliver a technology that really addresses this top management pain point, and we look forward to deploying the technology."

"Until now, IT administrators had to manage switches and HBAs individually, multiplying their efforts across each application. To centrally manage SAN edge devices, a complex management software infrastructure needed to be deployed," said Jay Kidd, Brocade Vice President of Product Management. "The release of Brocade Fabric Manager 4.0 and the new Emulex LightPulse HBA drivers with support for FDMI and HBAnyware will enable network managers to control HBAs and switches from a single point, enabling reduced administration time and complexity and improving security by reducing the management touch points and potential for human error. Brocade and Emulex are the first to deliver this kind of end-to-end management capability, and we will continue to work together to extend fabric intelligence and redefine the next-generation Fibre Channel-based SAN."

"Our partnership with Brocade extends the end-to-end intelligence of SANs, and enables customers to take advantage of leading-edge storage management functionality at the fabric level, while capturing critical information from the HBAs via Emulex's HBAnyware," said Mike Smith, Emulex Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. "Emulex and Brocade are leading the industry in terms of delivering next generation tools to simplify and centralize SAN management."

In October 2002, Brocade and Emulex first announced they would deliver centralized SAN management and enhanced security by extending the intelligence in the SAN fabric to include both the switching infrastructure and the HBAs. In addition, the companies have a longstanding partnership in which they work together to verify product interoperability.

About Emulex

Emulex Corporation, which was named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2002, is the world's largest supplier and developer of storage networking host bus adapters. The American Electronics Association also recently named Emulex "Outstanding Public Company" for 2002.

The Emulex product families are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies spanning both Fibre Channel and IP networking protocols, 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 Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Via a joint development agreement, Emulex and Intel are pioneering the industry's first storage processors for Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces within a single architecture.

Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Info-X, Netmarks, 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 http://www.emulex.com/.

About Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Brocade offers the industry's leading intelligent platform for networking storage. The world's leading systems, applications, and storage vendors have selected Brocade to provide a networking foundation for their SAN solutions. The Brocade SilkWorm(R) family of fabric switches and software is designed to optimize data availability and storage and server resources in the enterprise. Using Brocade solutions, companies can simplify the implementation of storage area networks, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency. For more information, visit the Brocade website at www.brocade.com or contact the company at [e-mail].

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