Computer Associates Selects Emulex HBAs for High-Performance Connectivity to Enable New Benchmark Speeds.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2002 Emulex Joins Industry Leaders to Provide Balanced, Integrated and Fully Qualified Solutions and Services for Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. 2000 and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Emulex Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ELX Elx, Spain: see Elche. ), the world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that CA has selected the Emulex LP9002L HBAs for integration into an industry-leading SAN configuration that has reached new benchmark speeds. The record-setting speed, at 2.6 terabyte-per-hour (TB/hr) backup, is the fastest database backup performance ever recorded on any platform. As a result of the testing, CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup's restore performance achieved a sustained rate of 2.2 TB/hr using 32 drives. The benchmark test was performed at Microsoft Corp.'s Redmond campus using a 2.5TB Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition database running on a highly available Unisys ES7000 Orion 230 server, which utilized Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. A high-performance SAN was built utilizing Emulex's market-leading 2Gb/s LP9002L Fibre Channel HBAs for connectivity between the Unisys' ES7000 server, Quantum's P7000 tape libraries configured with a total of 32 LTO (Linear Tape Open) A family of open magnetic tape standards developed by HP, IBM and Quantum (formerly the Certance subsidiary of Seagate) that are licensed to third-party vendors. LTO cartridges contain a memory that stores historical usage data. Ultrium tape drives, Brocade's Silkworm silkworm, name for the larva of various species of moths, indigenous to Asia and Africa but now domesticated and raised for silk production throughout most of the temperate zone. The culture of silkworms is called sericulture. 3800 fabric switches and Hitachi Data Systems' Lightning 9980 storage featuring Hitachi Fibre Channel disk drives. CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. Agent software was used along with CA's core BrightStor Enterprise Backup technology to exploit the SQL Server 2000 native Virtual Data Interface to ensure consistent snapshot backup and restore of the database. "Integrating Emulex high-performance HBAs into the record-setting configuration was critical to achieving outstanding benchmark results for the BrightStor Offering," said Nigel Turner, CA's senior vice president of BrightStor solutions. "By bringing together the leading technology providers in the storage industry, we have succeeded in raising the bar for enterprise-class storage systems that can deliver optimal speed, availability and reliability." The BrightStor benchmark will help enable the deployment of high-performance storage solutions for today's complex, heterogeneous IT environments. The BrightStor Offering for enterprise datacenters features an array of products and services from program participants including needs assessment, configuration recommendations, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, BrightStor Enterprise Backup and implementation services. The implementation and deployment of Emulex's LightPulse LP9002L 2Gb/s Channel HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. in the benchmark, provides the flexibility and speed needed for highly scalable and complex SAN environments. "Storage management is a vital part of enterprise-level IT operations, and Emulex is fully committed to helping simplify management of SANs and enabling record-setting backup solutions," said Mike Smith, Emulex executive vice president of worldwide marketing. "The BrightStor Offering represents a culmination of industry-leading technology and products that have taken SAN management to the next level with new benchmarks that help reduce planned downtime and improve management capabilities within complex SAN environments." The Emulex 2Gb/s LP9002L HBA offers a unique feature set, including compatibility across all product generations and firmware upgradeability, which help to lower the customer's total cost of ownership and reduce management complexity. 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 CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. offload, low latency and scalable connectivity. Emulex HBAs also offer a single operating system driver and a firmware-based architecture, which help to lower the customer's total cost of ownership and reduce management complexity, while enabling a seamless migration path to next-generation technologies. For information about how Emulex HBAs increase SAN productivity and efficiency, visit the Emulex Web site and download the IDC whitepaper titled, "Measuring the HBA's Role in SAN Management." 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 LP9802 and LP982 PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. HBAs, the LP9002L and LP952L PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). HBAs, the LP9002C CompactPCI HBA, the LP9002S SBus-based HBA and the market-leading LP8000. The Emulex family of IP-based storage networking host bus adapters includes the 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 (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) 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, visit www.emulex.com. About Emulex 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 (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. , 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 (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , 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 ACAL Asociación de Archiveros de Castilla Y León (Castille and Leon, Spain) ACAL Academia de Ciencias de América Latina (Spanish: Academy of Sciences of Latin America, Venezuela) , Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Info-X, Netmarks, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa. News releases and other information about Emulex are available at www.emulex.com. EMULEX -- We network storage "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. 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Those factors include the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; fluctuation in the growth of Fibre Channel and IP markets; changes in economic conditions or changes in end-user demand for technology solutions; fluctuations or delays in customer orders; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products; Emulex's ability to gain market acceptance for its products; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on third-party suppliers. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q. Note to Editors: This news release refers to various products and companies by their trade names. 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