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.

Tweet This: Emulex OneCommand Vision Provides Proactive I/O Monitoring for Microsoft System Center 2012 http://bit.ly/HRu8H3

Follow Emulex on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/emulex

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.

Emulex Safe Harbor Statement

“Safe Harbor” Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include, among other matters, statements concerning Emulex’s acquisition of ServerEngines Corporation, including anticipated benefits expected from the acquisition, expected impact on Emulex’s results of operations and financial condition, and expected market opportunities; Emulex’s business outlook, as well as expectations of other future events and future performance. Emulex wishes to caution readers that a number of significant factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include among others, the anticipated benefits of the combined companies may not be achieved, the combined operations may not be successfully integrated in a timely manner, if at all, and other risks inherent in acquisitions of businesses, including unanticipated costs and expenditures, potential changes in relationships with strategic partners, potential contractual or intellectual property issues, and potential accounting charges and write-downs; as well as changes in economic and industry conditions and the effects of ongoing global economic uncertainty, changes in end user demand for technology solutions; the effect of any actual or potential unsolicited offers to acquire Emulex; Emulex’s dependence on a limited number of customers and the effects of the loss of, or decrease or delays in orders by, any such customers, or the failure of such customers to make payments; the emergence of new or stronger competitors as a result of consolidation movements in the market; the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; the effect of rapid migration of customers towards newer, lower cost product platforms; slower than expected growth of the storage networking market or the failure of Emulex’s Original Equipment Manufacturer (“OEM”) customers to successfully incorporate Emulex products into their systems; delays in product development; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex’s products; Emulex’s ability to gain market acceptance for its products; any inadequacy of Emulex’s intellectual property protection or the potential for third-party claims of infringement; Emulex’s ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; and Emulex’s reliance on third-party suppliers. These and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in Emulex’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q. Statements in this release are based on current expectations and, except as required by law, Emulex undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements for any reason. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.