Emulex Revolutionizes Bare Metal Provisioning for Hyperscale Data Centers with New OpenWorks Connector

SAN FRANCISCO & COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VMWORLD – Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the first Emulex OpenWorks™ Connector for use with the new Emulex OneConnect® OCec14000 series of Cloud Adapters. The Emulex OpenWorks Connector provides a highly scalable solution that enables bare metal adapter configuration management and rapid provisioning/deployment capabilities for scale-out environments such as cloud-based infrastructures. The Emulex OpenWorks Connector uses a RESTful API, allowing third-party provisioning tools to leverage the new OpenWorks Connector to manage the Emulex OneConnect OCec14000 Cloud Adapters. Egenera, a provider of cloud and data center infrastructure management software, is the first partner to utilize this API, and when combined with Egenera’s PAN Manager 8.0, will allow customers to rapidly configure and provision machine images to bare metal rack servers for physical and virtual environments.