COSTA MESA, Calif. and WHIPPANY, N.J., June 9, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Info X Distribution, a world's leading distributor of storage area networking host bus adapters (HBAs), announced today that Info X has awarded their 2003 Partner of the Year award to Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX). The Info X Partner of the Year Award recognizes the vendor who has excelled in providing strong channel support and customer solutions as well as superior technology, quality and feature-rich products. The Info X Partner of the Year award will be presented to Emulex at their headquarters today.
"For the second year in a row, we are presenting our Partner of the Year award to Emulex Corporation," said Info X's Executive Vice President of Sales, David DeRing. "Emulex continues to redefine the meaning of the word partner and is successfully growing its sales volume and market share by bringing to market the best SAN connectivity products, best marketing programs and best support in the storage industry."
"Emulex is honored to receive the Info X 'Partner of the Year' award for its ongoing success in the channel," said Fred Gill, executive vice president of worldwide sales, Emulex. "Info X has emerged as a premier distributor of SAN connectivity solutions and we value our longstanding channel partnership. Emulex and Info X will continue to work closely to deploy robust, feature-rich storage networking solutions."
The Emulex family of HBAs offers firmware-based architecture and operating system driver compatibility across Emulex's entire HBA product line, which provides customers with a simplified upgrade path, reduced management complexities and also ensures a lower total cost of ownership. Emulex HBAs are fully compatible with drivers that support the company's centralized HBA management suite, HBAnyware, which incorporates driver-based technology to enable complete management of Emulex HBAs and the ability to upgrade firmware anywhere in a SAN from a single console.
About Info X
Info X is the premiere worldwide distributor of EMC approved and vendor certified Fibre channel Host Bus Adapters. Storage OEMs and Storage Integrators rely on our expert sales and superior technical knowledge to fulfill all of their connectivity needs. Info X has key partnerships with storage industry leaders including: Emulex, EMC and other industry leaders. Manufacturer trained Info X support engineers are on call 24/7/365.
Please call us for product information, pricing or availability at 1-800-463-9998, outside of the USA call us at 973-386-1411. In Europe please call our European office at 31-40-2922722. Visit our web site at www.info-x.com where you can ask the Info Xpert(tm)!
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world leader in Fibre Channel HBAs and delivers a broad range of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems. Emulex was named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies, and ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50.
The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex HBAs, embedded storage switching and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage solutions. The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(tm) HBAs and InSpeed(tm) embedded storage switching products, are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum Corp., StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, and Microsoft among its strategic partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.
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"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; fluctuation in the growth of Fibre Channel and IP markets; changes in economic conditions or changes in end-user demand for technology solutions; fluctuations or delays in customer orders; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products; Emulex's ability to gain market acceptance for its products; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on third-party suppliers. These and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q.
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