Emulex Appoints David Williams as VP of Product Management and Strategy for Network Visibility Products

COSTA MESA, Calif., Feb. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the appointment of David Williams as vice president (VP) of product management and strategy for the Network Visibility Products (NVP) portfolio, where he will be responsible for driving the product roadmap, strategy development, and identifying new market opportunities. Williams brings 30 years of global IT expertise in the design, development, marketing and implementation of enterprise software products at companies including BMC, IBM Tivoli, and CA, and was also an industry analyst at Gartner.

"David's product management expertise will be integral as we continue to develop our long-term strategy for the NVP division," said Ali Hedayati, senior vice president and general manager, NVP, Emulex. "He joins us at a pivotal time, as we capitalize on the market opportunity to deliver network visibility and performance solutions, while expanding our focus on the growing software and virtualization markets in the year ahead."

"I am thrilled to join the Emulex team, and I look forward to honing our NVP product development and long-term roadmap in the year ahead," said David Williams, VP of product management and strategy, NVP, Emulex. "There is a market need for network visibility and performance solutions at every level of the data center and the Emulex NVP portfolio delivers the performance needed for today's market requirements."

Over the last few months, the Company has rounded out the NVP organization, including the appointment of industry veteran Matt McSweeney as new head of worldwide sales, and John Botros as the director of program management and now, the appointment of a new VP of product management and strategy.

David Williams biography:
David Williams is the vice president of product development and strategy at Emulex, where he is responsible for product roadmap, strategy development, and identifying new market opportunities. Williams brings more than 30 years of global IT experience in the design, development, marketing and implementation of enterprise software products.  

Prior to Emulex, Williams served as VP of strategy in the CTO office at BMC, responsible for the strategy and vision for cloud and automation and prior to that, defining the product direction and strategy for BMC's application performance management portfolio. Prior to BMC, Williams was a research VP at Gartner, the VP of marketing at AlterPoint (acquired by Versata) and held a number of executive roles at IBM Tivoli, including VP of product strategy and product management responsible for Tivoli's enterprise management portfolio. He also held senior roles at CA and Digital Equipment and spent his early years in IT operations, working for several financial, manufacturing and IT services companies.

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About Emulex
Emulex provides connectivity, monitoring and management solutions for high-performance networks, delivering provisioning, end-to-end application visibility, optimization and acceleration for the next generation of software-defined, telco and Web-scale data centers. The Company's I/O connectivity portfolio, which has been designed into server and storage solutions from leading OEMs and ODMs worldwide, enables organizations to manage bandwidth, latency, security and virtualization. The Emulex network visibility portfolio enables global organizations to monitor and improve application and network performance management. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif. For more information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) please visit http://www.Emulex.com.

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• the effect on our margins of rapid migration of technology and product substitution by customers, including transitions from application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) solutions to boards for selected applications and higher-end to lower-end products, mezzanine card products or modular Local Area Network (LAN) on Motherboard (LOMs);
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