[March 06, 2014]

Emulex Extends Distribution Agreement with Ingram Micro Asia Ltd

Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro (News - Alert) Asia Ltd for the Emulex portfolio of Fibre Channel and Ethernet I/O connectivity solutions, including the recently introduced OneConnect® OCe14000 family of 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet (10/40GbE) Network Adapters and Converged Network Adapters (CNAs). Ingram Micro Asia Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of Ingram Micro Inc.), headquartered in Singapore, is a leading wholesale provider of a wide range of computer products in Asia Pacific (APAC). This agreement extends the reach of Emulex (News - Alert) network connectivity products in Singapore, Indochina Regions (Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar), Vietnam and the Philippines.

"This agreement with Ingram Micro not only strengthens our reach into APAC, it strengthens our long-term growth strategy in the region," said Jimmy Yam, vice president of sales, APAC, Emulex. "Offering our complete portfolio of network connectivity products through Ingram Micro's distribution channel, including the new OneConnect family of adapters and the latest Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) in this region will enable our end user customers to maximize the performance of their I/O intensive applications and services, such as cloud, flash storage, and virtualization."

Together with Ingram Micro, Emulex will extend and recruit new resellers into the Emulex Connect^TM Partner Program, to grow the Emulex partner network and expertise in the region, and provide convenient and efficient support to its customers in Singapore, Indochina Regions, Philippines and Vietnam. The Emulex Connect Partner Program will also provide both companies' sales and reseller teams with the technical tools needed to ramp up quickly, and with training, education services and professional services to equip them with the latest skills and technologies information. In addition, business partners can utilize Ingram Micro's Proof-of-Concept centers to further seek out new opportunities.

"Ingram Micro Inc. has a long-standing partnership with Emulex and we are pleased to be able to extend the partnership in this region. This is timely, as we are well-positioned with our full range of solution offerings and extensive channel network to address the increased storage and network infrastructure needs for virtualized, enterprise and cloud data centers in the region. By partnering with Emulex, we're enhancing our offerings to our business partners with high performance connectivity for their next generation solutions for end users who are constantly looking to support new appliances and applications, lower costs and deliver increased I/O," said Francis Choo, Executive Managing Director, Ingram Micro Asia Ltd. "We're confident that our partnership will greatly benefit our two companies as well as our partners and customers in the region."

The Emulex network connectivity portfolio includes the new OneConnect OCe14000 family of Ethernet Network Adapters and Converged Network Adapters, which enable higher virtual machine (VM) densities, support secure hybrid clouds with Overlay Networks, leverage a new RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)-based low latency architecture to deliver application acceleration, and provides an open application performance interface (API) that integrates with next generation software-defined networking (SDN) solutions. In addition to the OneConnect family of adapters, the Emulex NetworkConnectivity Product portfolio includes the Emulex LightPulse® Gen 5 (16Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) HBAs, which deliver increased storage area network (SAN) reliability, management and consolidation simplicity, as well as application acceleration and higher throughput for virtualization, flash storage and mission-critical applications. Emulex Gen 5 FC HBAs enable up to 20 percent more IOPS than other Gen 5 FC HBAs, plus lightning-fast response times with more than 1.2 million IOPS on a single port¹.

1. Demartek Emulex LPe16000B 16Gb Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation, October 2012

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About Emulex

Emulex, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, provides hardware and software solutions for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government and telecommunications. Emulex's products enable unrivaled end-to-end application visibility, optimization and acceleration. The Company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of ultra high-performance Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity products, have been designed into server and storage solutions from leading OEMs, including Cisco, Dell (News - Alert), EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp and Oracle, and can be found in the data centers of nearly all of the Fortune 1000. Emulex's monitoring and management solutions, including its portfolio of network visibility and recording products, provide organizations with complete network performance management at speeds up to 100Gb Ethernet. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) please visit http://www.Emulex.com.

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