COSTA MESA, Calif., June 28, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) and CCX are teaming to promote the new Emulex "Perfect 10" channel program designed to provide incentives to migrating customers to the Emulex LP10000 and LP1050 family of HBAs, for its continued execution of strategic distribution channel programs and technology leadership.
"Emulex realizes the importance of providing its channel partners with strategic tools to succeed, including sales support, training and incentive programs to help broaden deployment of its SAN infrastructure solutions, and working closely with Emulex ensures delivery of robust and reliable connectivity," said Tom Hanchin, President and CEO of CCX. "The Perfect 10 program is just one example of how Emulex is helping its channel partners increase profitability while broadening the deployment of state-of-the-art SAN solutions."
Emulex SAN connectivity solutions available from CCX include a variety of LightPulse HBAs, including the LP10000, LP1050 and the recently released LP1005DC for IBM eServer BladeCenter. CCX is a leading provider and manufacturer of cable and connection solutions and supports a variety of Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs.
"Leveraging CCX's expertise has helped Emulex expand its presence in the channel, while growing the market for its award-winning SAN connectivity solutions," said Bob Sparanese, senior marketing manager, worldwide channels, Emulex Corp. "CCX has a well-established customer base and its SAN infrastructure expertise will continue to help us extend the reach of Emulex-based SAN solutions."
Emulex's new channel program called "Perfect 10" -- benefits channel partners by providing them trade-in discounts, special pricing and demo units when selling the Emulex Thor-based LP10000 and LP1050 family of Fibre Channel HBAs. For more detailed information on the "Perfect 10" program, visit http://www.emulex.com.
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 also offers a robust suite of HBA installation and management tools, including Enterprise AutoPilot Installer, EZPilot and 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 CCX
CCX is a leading provider of SAN Components, including HBAs, Transceivers and Fiber Optic Cables. CCX also manufacturers its own line of ROHS compliant fiber optic cables. For the past 6 years, CCX has been one of Colorado's 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies, as recognized by Deloitte and Touche. CCX's ISO9002 manufacturing and distribution center is located in Boulder, CO. and has just finished its 10th year in business.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions spanning host bus adapters, embedded storage switches, I/O controllers and SAN Storage Switches. Emulex ranked number 16 in the Deloitte 2004 Technology Fast 50 and most recently received recognition as one of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies.
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(r) 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. Emulex's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, 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, Microsoft and VERITAS 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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