Currently, most IT managers in large, enterprise-class corporations are content using Fibre Channel for high-end storage applications, such as transactional databases, and iSCSI for lower priority backup traffic.

"IT departments will experiment with this new technology but do it reluctantly because of budget cuts," Taneja said. "By the end of this, you'll see some experimental stuff. By early 2010, my expectation is that there will be some early production systems, but those will be few and far between."

In conjunction with the OneConnect UCNA, , an automated and centralized enterprise management application for the UCNAs and the company's LightPulse Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs). "The Emulex OneCommand Management Framework provides a single interface for the deployment, dynamic provisioning, asset management, connectivity management, security and quality of service of I/O connectivity that is optimized for virtualized and converged networking environments," the company said.

Emulex also , which encrypts data in-flight and at rest, and provides access controls through key management. Emulex has partnered with RSA to deliver the encryption key management for its SecureConneX HBAs.

The Emulex SecureConneX HBA encrypts data in-flight and at-rest, and provides access controls