The company also announced a partnership with RSA that allows it to offer host-based encryption and key management through a new host bus adapter (HBA) card.

OneConnect is a single-chip card that Emulex is calling a "Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA)." The card offers up to 10Gbit/sec. throughput on Ethernet, or 8Gbit/sec. Fibre Channel. The UCNA also supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Internet SCSI (iSCSI), and network-attached storage protocols for connectivity for storage over IP networks. Emulex said the OneConnect UCNA is designed for use in server virtualization environments.

The OneConnect UCNA comes with Emulex's VEngine firmware, a CPU offload engine that provides virtual adapter port count and quality of service bandwidth allocation, which enables greater virtual machine consolidation with more VMs per CPU, Emulex said.

The card offers up to 10Gbit/sec. throughput on Ethernet, or 8Gbit/sec. Fibre Channel. The UCNA also supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Internet SCSI (iSCSI), and network-attached storage protocols for connectivity for storage over IP networks.

Emulex said the OneConnect UCNAs will ship sometime in the second half of this year. They will deliver wire speed performance in full-duplex mode of operation, regardless of the mix of protocol traffic.