Named as Sun’s best-in-class supplier, and delivering HBAs across the range of Sun Fire, Sun StorEdge, SunBlade and Netra servers; Emulex has a long history as being the HBA of choice for Sun server installations.

In partnership with Sun Microsystems, Emulex develops and provides a wide range of enterprise-class products that enable customers to intelligently connect storage, servers and networks. This helps Sun to provide products and services that address the complex issues customers face today, including increasing demands for network access, bandwidth and storage driven by explosive growth in network participation and sharing.

The value, simplicity, agility, and robust features of Emulex solutions provide the flexibility and broad interoperability needed for complex, highly-scalable heterogeneous SANs. With a relationship spanning many years, Emulex has a large installed base of Fibre Channel adapters in Sun SANs worldwide.

Sun brands, distributes and supports custom versions of Emulex LightPulse HBAs as an integral part of Solaris OS distributions, these Emulex-based connectivity solutions allow end-users to leverage Sun support and realize the benefits of Sun’s Fibre Channel solutions.

Advanced and proven technology from Emulex enables Sun to plan seamless product and technology transitions, deploy the best-in-class solutions, and maintain their leadership role in implementing new technology.