Emulex Joins OpenPOWER Foundation
April 23 2014 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Growing POWER Ecosystem to Spur Innovation
for Enterprise and Web-Scale Data Centers
Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity,
monitoring and management, today announced it has joined the
OpenPOWER Foundation, which seeks to create an open ecosystem,
using the IBM POWER architecture to serve the evolving needs of
customers.
“The POWER architecture delivers incredible scalability for
emerging Web-scale data centers which require robust computing
platforms to support the growing number of connected devices and
the demand for hybrid cloud services. We look forward to
collaborating with IBM and member companies to spur innovation in
the POWER ecosystem,” said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of
marketing and corporate development, Emulex. “Emulex is a leading
provider of I/O connectivity solutions for IBM POWER platforms and
joining the OpenPOWER Foundation enables Emulex to further improve
the functionality and value of the POWER platform, especially as
the transition to Gen 5 Fibre Channel and 40Gb Ethernet solutions
occurs.”
The OpenPOWER Foundation:
- Opens the POWER architecture to give
the industry the ability to innovate across the full hardware and
software stack
- Drives an expansion of enterprise-class
hardware and software stack for the data center
- Builds a complete ecosystem to provide
customers with the flexibility to build servers best suited to the
POWER architecture
"Emulex's membership in the OpenPOWER Foundation will further
the Foundation's ability to achieve its mission," said Brad
McCredie, president, OpenPOWER Foundation. “Given Emulex's
decades-long experience in delivering high-performance network
connectivity on POWER platforms, we are looking forward to this
partnership creating new, innovative solutions for enterprise and
emerging Web-scale data centers.”
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About EmulexEmulex, a leader in network connectivity,
monitoring and management, provides hardware and software solutions
for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government and
telecommunications. Emulex’s products enable unrivaled end-to-end
application visibility, optimization and acceleration. The
Company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of ultra
high-performance Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity
products, have been designed into server and storage solutions from
leading OEMs, including Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP,
Huawei, IBM, NetApp and Oracle, and can be found in the data
centers of nearly all of the Fortune 1000. Emulex’s monitoring and
management solutions, including its portfolio of network visibility
and recording products, provide organizations with complete network
performance management at speeds up to 100Gb Ethernet. Emulex is
headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research
facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information
about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) please visit http://www.Emulex.com.
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