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Emulex and Enterprise Strategy Group to Present on Why I/O Is Strategic for Virtualized Environments

COSTA MESA, Calif., October 4, 2012 – Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), today announced that it will be hosting a webcast on Wednesday, October 10 at 9:00 a.m. P.T. on why I/O is strategic to virtualized environments, focused on results of the ESG Solution Brief: Why I/O is Strategic – Virtualization, which is part of the recently announced “Why I/O Is Strategic” education series.

The webcast, hosted by Emulex senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Shaun Walsh and presented with ESG’s Bob Laliberte, senior analyst, will focus on the importance of I/O to virtualized environments. As these environments continue to mature and become more flexible and dynamic, I/O becomes critical to a successful deployment. Organizations need to focus on more than servers, networking and storage – I/O also needs to be a strategic piece of an overall IT system.¹ In a recent Emulexsurvey, 85 percent of respondents said network throughput was a significant or very significant gating factor in limiting how many virtual machines they could run on a single physical server.

This webcast will also focus on the following key areas:

• The strategic importance of I/O in highly virtualized deployments.
• The importance of assessing, designing and architecting appropriate I/O connectivity as virtualized data centers mature and become more flexible and dynamic.
• Why I/O is important as emerging technologies like single root single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), overlay networking, and universal multi-channel capabilities enable higher virtual machine densities, and thereby require strategic I/O investments.

To download the report, click here. To register for the webcast, click here.

1. Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG): Why I/O is Strategic—Virtualization, August 2012

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About Emulex

Emulex, the leader in converged networking solutions, provides enterprise-class connectivity for servers, networks and storage devices within the data center. The company's product portfolio of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, 10Gb Ethernet Network Interface Cards, Ethernet-based Converged Network Adapters, controllers, embedded bridges and switches, and connectivity management software are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments. Emulex solutions are used and offered by the industry's leading server and storage OEMs including, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Huawei, IBM, NEC, NetApp and Oracle. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif. and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. More information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is available at www.Emulex.com.