Bell Microproducts Recognises Emulex for Sales and Marketing Excellence

• Thursday, 22 September 2005

Bell Microproducts Recognises Emulex for Sales and Marketing Excellence

Emulex Tops Bell Micro’s Worldwide HBA Sales

Chessington, 22 September, 2005 - Bell Microproducts announced today that it has recognised Emulex for the excellence of its sales and marketing efforts. Emulex leads Bell Micro’s shipments of Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) into the EMEA region.

As Bell Microproduct’s leading supplier of HBA products worldwide, Emulex continues to deliver on its channel strategy and works in close cooperation with the Bell Micro sales team to accelerate the deployment of storage networking solutions.

Mark Walker, Director of Enterprise Storage for Bell Microproducts Europe, said, “Emulex has solidified some of the industry’s most strategic alliances and partnerships in the channel. We are proud of our association with Emulex, and look forward to continuing to be an active partner of the company.”

Craig Skelton, Emulex’s Director of Channel Sales EMEA, said, “Our success with Bell Microproducts is the result of years of productive partnership and collaboration, as well as our common focus on the needs of both VARs and their end user customers. This recognition of our leadership in HBA sales reinforces the success of our channel marketing programs, while strengthening our commitment to the channel.”

Emulex’s award-winning products, including the LightPulse HBA family, offer high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced cost of ownership. Emulex products have been selected by the world’s leading server and storage manufacturers, including Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens, Bull, HP, HDS, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. Emulex’s strategic partnerships also include Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA and Microsoft.

For further information, call Raj Patel at Bell Microproducts on 020 8286 5000.


About Bell Microproducts
Bell Microproducts is an international, value-added provider of a wide range of high-technology products, solutions, and services to the industrial and commercial markets. The Company's offering includes semiconductors, computer platforms, peripherals, and storage products of various types including desktop, high-end computer and storage subsystems, fibre channel connectivity products, RAID, NAS and SAN storage systems and back-up products. Bell Microproducts is an industry-recognized specialist in storage products and is one of the world's largest storage-centric value-added distributors.
The Company's products are available at any level of integration, from components to subsystem assemblies and fully-integrated, tested and certified system solutions. The Company adds value with a broad range of services including testing, software loading, kitting, mass storage system integration, and computer system integration. Trained and certified technical personnel complete each of these processes at Bell Microproducts' ISO 9002 facilities. Bell Microproducts markets and distributes more than 140 brand name product lines, as well as its own Rorke Data storage and Trademark® computer brands, to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), contract electronic manufacturing services (CEMS) customers, value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators in the Americas and Europe. More information can be found in the Company's SEC filings, or by visiting the Bell Microproducts Web site at www.bellmicro.com .

Bell Microproducts Europe is headquartered in Chessington in the UK with operations in France (Paris) Germany (Munich); Italy (Milan); Spain; Netherlands (Amersfoort); Belgium (Brussels); and Sweden (Stockholm).

Bell Microproducts Solutions is headquartered in Almere, The Netherlands with operations in Belgium (Brussels), Germany (Frankfurt) and Austria (Vienna).

Bell Microproducts Europe is part of the $2 billion NASDAQ listed Bell Microproducts Inc, one of the world's largest storage focused IT companies operating from more than 40 locations, and employing over 1,100 people across the US, Canada, Latin America, the UK and Europe.

In the UK Bell Microproducts Europe owns and operates Ideal Hardware. Ideal Hardware was voted Storage Distributor of the Year at the Computer Reseller News Channel Awards 2002 for the fourth consecutive year.
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