EMC Qualifies Emulex LP9002 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters as E-Lab Tested.

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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 27, 2001

Emulex Now Qualified by EMC in Solaris, AIX and Windows Operating

Environments for Symmetrix Systems

Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX), the world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) has qualified the Emulex LightPulse(R) LP9002 Fibre Channel HBA for use in EMC Enterprise Storage Network (ESN) environments running the Sun Solaris and IBM AIX operating systems.

Emulex HBAs are now qualified for EMC's enterprise storage solutions in Windows, Solaris or AIX operating environments.

EMC's E-Lab Tested qualification process is part of the EMC E-Infostructure Interoperability Program, a series of exhaustive performance and reliability tests to ensure the interoperability of all the components that make up the multi-vendor EMC Enterprise Storage Network.

"EMC qualified Emulex's LP9002 HBAs for Solaris and AIX environments to enable our customers to benefit from the scalability and flexibility connectivity that Emulex HBAs bring to our world-class storage solutions," said Chuck Hollis, EMC director of product marketing. "Emulex HBAs offer the reliable and robust Fibre Channel connectivity solution that our enterprise customers demand."

The Emulex LP9002 HBA supports 64 bit, 66MHz PCI transfers and operates at up to 2Gb/s Fibre Channel data rates. The Emulex LP9002 offers auto speed negotiation, a function that enables the host bus adapter to automatically sense the network's maximum speed and adapt accordingly, while maintaining full backwards compatibility with 1Gb/s Fibre Channel installations.

Additionally, the LP9002 is software compatible with Emulex's entire family of LightPulse host bus adapters, including the LP7000E and the market-leading LP8000.

"EMC's qualification of the Emulex LP9002 for Solaris and AIX environments ensures that customers have the industry's most robust, scalable storage solutions for enterprise applications," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex. "We will continue to work closely with EMC to provide the highest quality HBA technology for both new and existing storage systems."

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.

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 Fibre Channel products include the 2Gb/s LP9002L and LP952L, the SBus-based LP8000S and the market- leading LP8000 host bus adapters.

The Emulex family of IP-based storage networking host bus adapters includes the recently announced GN9000/SI iSCSI host bus adapter, the GN9000/VI VI/IP host bus adapter, the CL1000 host bus adapter and CL5000/5300 cluster switches. 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, visit www.emulex.com.

About Emulex

Emulex is a leading supplier and developer of storage and server networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies. Storage networks provide data centers with high-speed, scalable and highly available storage access. Server networks enable the creation of high-performance server clusters for database and transaction processing.

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, 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, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Consan, CTC, Info-X, Tech Data and TidalWire. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa. News releases and other information about Emulex are available at www.emulex.com.

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"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The economy generally, and the technology and storage segments specifically, have recently been in a state of uncertainty making it difficult to determine if past experience is a good guide to the future and making it impossible to determine if markets will grow or shrink in the short term. Thus, the forward-looking statements herein are management's best estimate of likely results if market conditions stabilize and if the storage sector begins to recover and resume its historic pattern of growth. Other factors affecting these forward- looking statements include the following: Emulex's markets are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements, and the combined companies may not be able to respond to such changes on a timely basis; the Fibre Channel and IP markets are in early stages of development; changes in economic conditions or changes in end-user demand for technology solutions, including the possibility of slower than expected growth in demand for Fibre Channel solutions; possible delays in OEM launches of products enabled by the company's solutions or deferrals in orders for the company's solutions by these OEMs; Emulex's VI/IP and iSCSI products remain in the development stage and are subject to significant technical, competitive and market acceptance risks; the ability of Emulex to effectively integrate recently acquired operations into its own; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products, as well as pricing pressures that may result from such competitive conditions; the combined companies' ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the companies' reliance on third-party suppliers for components used in the companies' products and on manufacturing subcontractors that assemble and distribute the company's products; the companies' reliance on certain OEMs, distributors and key customers; potential losses on strategic business investments; and potential fluctuations in Emulex's future effective tax rate. 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.

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