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DLTtape(TM) automation company QuantumATL and storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs) vendor Emulex Corporation today announced that the Emulex LightPulse(R) LP8000S SBus Fibre Channel (FC) HBA has been awarded certification of interoperability with QuantumATL's SAN solution offerings for Sun Solaris environments.

According to the companies, the certification of the Emulex LP8000S provides customers with the assurance that this product is not only compatible with QuantumATL's P1000, P2000 and P3000 Series FC tape libraries, but also will perform with QuantumATL-certified solutions in a SAN environment.

"Our certification process consists of rigorous laboratory testing of the product in a QuantumATL SAN environment. The Emulex LP8000S SBus host bus adapter demonstrated the performance and reliability demanded by our mutual customers," said Richard Toomey, technical marketing SAN engineer, QuantumATL. "With this announcement, our SAN customers can now choose both PCI and SBus host bus adapters from Emulex with full confidence of interoperability with our SAN solutions."