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Emulex OneCommand Vision Wins Systems Management Product of the Year Award

OneCommand Vision 3.0 Recognized for Product Excellence at Storage, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Awards

COSTA MESA, Calif. and WOKINGHAM, UK, December 4, 2012 – Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that it won the Systems Management Product of the Year award for Emulex OneCommand® Vision 3.0 at the Storage, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing (SVC) Awards. At the same event, OneCommand Vision 3.0 was also named runner up in the Storage Networking Product of the Year category. The awards were presented at an exclusive black tie event at the Pullman St. Pancras Hotel in London.

The SVC Awards recognize the users, manufacturers and suppliers operating in the storage, virtualization and cloud computing fields in the European market and are voted for by the readers of Angel Business Publications’ wide range of print and online publications.

“The SVC Awards are voted for by our readers and this year we have had a significant increase in the overall number of votes,” explained Carly Stephens, events manager at SVC Awards organizer Angel Business Communications. “All finalists did well in making the shortlist, but Emulex was the clear winner in its category. We would like to congratulate Emulex on winning the 2012 SVC award for Systems Management Product of the Year.”

“OneCommand Vision is the only I/O performance management solution that provides 100 percent visibility throughout the I/O path, providing complete end-to-end I/O performance management, and being recognized by the 2012 SVC awards for this unique functionality is a testament to this product’s ability to eliminate the proverbial I/O ‘blind spot’ in the data center,” said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. “The fact that the awards are voted for by our peers and knowledgeable industry insiders is an especially powerful endorsement of Emulex OneCommand Vision 3.0 in the I/O performance management market.”

Emulex OneCommand Vision 3.0 is a proactive I/O performance management solution designed to optimize I/O resources within virtualized and cloud storage environments. In addition to I/O performance and availability management, OneCommand Vision includes support for both host-side and Storage Area Network (SAN) attached storage.  All together this encompasses Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI, Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and Logical Volumes including local Solid State Disks (SSDs) presented to servers. Emulex OneCommand Vision gives IT administrators the ability to maximize I/O resource use and proactively enhance performance and availability by monitoring and analyzing how well application I/O is moving through the infrastructure.  OneCommand Vision FREE Edition allows users to quickly see how valuable this non-invasive software product can be to their virtualization and cloud environment. Download it here.

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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.