Emulex OneCommand® Vision Works with System Center 2012

  Emulex OneCommand® Vision Works with System Center 2012

Proactive I/O Monitoring Simplifies Management and Provides Added Performance
                                  Visibility

Microsoft Management Summit

Business Wire

LAS VEGAS & COSTA MESA, Calif. -- April 18, 2012

Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced the OneCommand® Vision support
for the new Microsoft System Center 2012, a cloud and data center management
solution that provides a common toolset to manage private and public cloud
applications and services. OneCommand Vision, an intelligent I/O management
application enabling greater I/O reliability, availability and performance,
provides users of the Operations Manager component of System Center with a
single point to manage their infrastructure.

“As virtualization drives up infrastructure utilization and cloud computing
significantly increases the amount of resource-sharing among private and
public cloud applications, I/O availability and performance are stressed,
potentially creating I/O bottlenecks throughout the system,” said Shaun Walsh,
vice president of marketing, Emulex. “OneCommand Vision with System Center
2012 solves the I/O ‘blind spot’ with immediate I/O performance and
availability monitoring and single-pane-of-glass management.”

OneCommand Vision and System Center 2012 target increasing server and
application performance and availability while decreasing operational
expenses. OneCommand Vision takes its unique view of automating and monitoring
I/O performance and availability from the application and allows System Center
2012 users the same view, along with historical performance database and
intelligent alert analytics.

“System Center 2012 is designed to give customers the benefits of Microsoft’s
extensive experience with the cloud to help them manage IT from virtualization
to public, private, and hybrid cloud environments,” said Sergio Klarreich,
Director Strategic Alliances, Management and Security Division, Microsoft
Corp. “With the addition of Emulex OneCommand Vision to System Center 2012,
customers can gain additional I/O performance monitoring within the System
Center management experience.”

OneCommand Vision simplifies the management of complex I/O environments and
provides end-to-end I/O performance visibility from the application’s
perspective. OneCommand Vision's non-intrusive software architecture and
interoperability with Emulex and non-Emulex adapters, delivers I/O performance
and availability data for base-lining, tracking, alerting and troubleshooting
complex performance problems.

Emulex OneCommand Vision provides the following additional features and
benefits:

  * "Application View" of Performance Management: OneCommand Vision is the
    first solution to monitor I/O performance from the application's
    perspective, across heterogeneous storage environments. OneCommand Vision
    exposes disruptions unseen by solutions that simply monitor downstream
    storage infrastructure components by providing end-to-end performance
    management that covers 100% of the I/O path, identifying, for example,
    misconfigured multipathing software that results in unused, yet expensive,
    redundant paths.
  * I/O Service Level Agreement Management: OneCommand Vision establishes and
    manages I/O availability and performance service level agreements (SLAs)
    from the application's perspective, including situations where storage
    infrastructure is outsourced to a third party, creating SLAs that are
    based on real-world historical performance information for each
    environment.
  * Intelligent Reports and Alerts: OneCommand Vision automates early issue
    detection, using Intelligent Alerting capabilities, view dashboards, and
    reports. Administrators can quickly assess I/O availability and
    performance across the entire infrastructure or focus in on a specific
    group within the environment, reducing time to resolution along with
    operational expenses.
  * Analytics and Correlation Engine (ACE): This capability expedites problem
    resolution by combining I/O availability and performance data with
    advanced forensic capability, to reduce operational costs while increasing
    I/O performance and availability. ACE also allows users to detect
    performance issues and relate them to infrastructure hot spots, exposing
    potential oversubscription in the server, network and storage domains.

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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, network interface cards, 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.

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Director, Corporate Communications
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Public Relations Manager
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