Emulex to imporve Gen 5 FC based SANs

FRANKFURT, GERMANY: Emulex Corporation, a leading player in network connectivity, monitoring and management, has announced that the company is working with Brocade, the leader in data centre fabric networking solutions, to improve the reliability, availability, and manageability of Gen 5 Fibre Channel (FC) based storage area networks (SANs) in the enterprise data centre and the cloud.

Specifically, Emulex and Brocade have worked together to integrate Brocade's ClearLink diagnostics technology into Emulex LightPulse Gen 5 FC Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).

Says Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex: "As customers migrate mission-critical, private cloud, and flash-accelerated workloads to Gen 5 FC fabrics, performance, quality of service (QoS) and infrastructure reliability become more critical.ClearLink is the first of the Gen 5 FC capabilities that Emulex will be providing to ensure the reliability and management of storage network configurations when connected to Brocade Gen 5 FC SAN fabrics."