Emulex 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs incorporated into Microsoft Technology Centers.

Emulex Corporation recently announced that the Emulex LightPulse family of 4Gb/s Fibre Channel PCI-X and PCI Express HBAs are selected for use in Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) worldwide. With centers in Boston, Chicago, Silicon Valley and the United Kingdom, among other locations, the MTCs provide customers with an access to industry leaders and technology experts to envision, architect and demonstrate a secure, customized solution based on Microsoft and partner technologies. This dynamic collection of resources accelerates development time by removing traditional barriers, and reduces the total cost of solution acquisition. By incorporating Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs in its MTCs, MTC customers can explore a wide variety of options for easily and reliably connecting servers to 4Gb/s SAN architectures, essentially doubling the speed of previous 2Gb/s storage networks.

"The MTCs' incorporation of Emulex 4Gb/s HBAs provides customers with a state-of-the-art connectivity solution for Windows-based SANs, and the robust suite of features and interoperability enables a broad array of equipment to be seamlessly integrated into high-performance data centers," said Adam Hecktman, director, Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago. "As an MTC alliance member and infrastructure provider, Emulex HBAs coupled with Microsoft operating environments provides a solution that not only meets the performance and feature set needs of SAN customers, but can also help customers improve profitability."

"Microsoft Technology Center customers can take advantage of the full 4Gb/s performance of Windows-based SANs utilizing Emulex and Microsoft networked storage solutions," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, Emulex.

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