Emulex extends cert with Hitachi storage solutions.

Emulex Corp. (NYSE:ELX) recently announced that Hitachi Data Systems has qualified the Emulex LightPulse LP9002L HBA for use with its Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 Series storage solutions in conjunction with Sun Microsystems' (Nasdaq:SUNW) Sun Fire V880 and V480 servers.

Hitachi Data Systems' qualification now enables Sun Fire V880 and V480 server customers to utilize Emulex Fibre Channel host bus adapters for server-to-storage connectivity, enabling a robust and high-performance enterprise solution. Emulex continues to work closely with Hitachi Data Systems to ensure complete compatibility between the two companies' product families and other mission-critical enterprise servers.

"Hitachi Data Systems is always pleased to support storage solutions that provide customers with more choices," said Steve East, vice president, Integrated Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems. "This certification expands our reach into Solaris environments, and ensures that our customers have access to Emulex's best-of-breed HBAs for deployment of feature-rich, robust connectivity solutions."

The Emulex family of HBAs offers firmware upgradeability to protect customers' investments and a unique driver architecture that enables compatibility of a single driver across Emulex's entire product line, which significantly reduces SAN management complexity while lowering the customer's total cost of ownership.

"Both Emulex and Hitachi Data Systems are committed to ensuring open, highly scalable storage solutions to our customers through superior performance and industry-leading technology," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex. "Emulex will continue to offer world-class connectivity solutions, with unmatched features such as firmware upgradeability that are designed to reduce management complexity."

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.

Emulex HBAs also offer a unique driver architecture that enables compatibility of a single operating system driver across Emulex's entire product line and a firmware-based architecture. These features help to lower the customer's total cost of ownership and reduce management complexity, while enabling a seamless migration path to next-generation technologies.