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Nimble Storage Embeds Emulex Gen 5 Fibre Channel Solutions on CS-Series Adaptive Flash Arrays to Optimize Application PerformanceCOSTA MESA, Calif., March 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced that Nimble Storage has selected Emulex LightPulse® Gen 5 (16GFC) Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapter (HBA) technology for the Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash platform. The combination of the Nimble Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture with the Emulex Gen 5 FC HBAs provide high throughput and low latency to meet the performance requirements of service provider and enterprise customers leveraging virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), dense server virtualization environments, scale-up enterprise and in-memory databases, such as SAP HANA. The recently announced Nimble Storage CS-Series Fibre Channel storage arrays utilize the industry-leading Emulex OneCore™ Storage Software Development Kit (SDK), a comprehensive solution for independent hardware and software vendors (IHVs and ISVs) and system integrators to create target-side drivers in a custom, high efficiency environment. Tweet This: .@NimbleStorage Chooses @Emulex #Gen5 #FibreChannel To Optimize App Performance: http://ow.ly/JW97z "We've invested significantly in our product development to address the requirements of enterprise IT organizations. By partnering with Emulex around our Fibre Channel Adaptive Flash arrays, we've been able to deliver a high-performance solution optimized for the most demanding production workloads," said Radhika Krishnan, vice president of product marketing and alliances, Nimble Storage. "Enterprise customers can now benefit from the added performance of Emulex Gen 5 FC when consolidating their workloads onto Nimble CS-Series arrays." The Emulex Gen 5 FC technology was a natural choice for Nimble Storage as they looked to add Fibre Channel capabilities to the Adaptive Flash platform. Emulex has been the preferred connectivity choice of many enterprises, service providers and enterprise storage providers for five generations of Fibre Channel. In addition, the high performance and low latency capability of Emulex Gen 5 FC host-based adapters, with up to 1.2 million I/O operations per second (IOPS) on a single port1, complement the performance characteristics of the Nimble CS-Series, which can deliver up to 5X greater performance and capacity density compared to legacy storage platforms2. Emulex Gen 5 FC technology is also capable of processing up to 21 percent greater OLTP transactions when compared to competing Gen 5 FC HBAs, matching the performance needed for customers' mission-critical workloads running in flash arrays and server-based cache environments3. "Nimble Storage chose the Emulex Gen 5 FC technology for 16GFC connectivity and leveraged our OneCore Storage SDK's ease of programmability to streamline integration into their CS-Series Adaptive Flash storage arrays," said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing, Emulex. "Our teams worked closely together to ensure a smooth bring up for Nimble's customers, and we are now setting our sights on driving growth in next generation storage solutions for enterprise, telco, and cloud workloads."
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