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RLX Names Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communications

Posted on: Monday, 5 April 2004, 06:00 CDT

HOUSTON, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- RLX Technologies, Inc, a leading provider of server blade and modular compute technologies, today announced that it named Tejas Vakil, a 23-year industry veteran of Dell, Compaq, and Tandem, as vice president of worldwide marketing and corporate communications. Reporting to Douglas J. Erwin, president and CEO, Vakil is responsible for strategic product marketing and corporate communications.

"RLX is focused on increasing our market penetration and building on the long-term relationships we have with our customers," stated Doug Erwin. "Tejas brings to our management team a broad and proven track record for building and leading both telesales and large-scale field operations. His understanding of how to achieve results, assure that customer expectations are continually met across the sales and delivery lifecycle, and develop enterprise-level relationships with Fortune 500 companies will have an immediate impact on our success. We are excited to have him join our management team."

Vakil's experience includes more than 23 years of experience in computers where he has seen the industry evolve from proprietary mainframes and superminicomputers to today's Intel-based commodity servers. Most recently, Vakil was at Surgient, a virtualization software solutions company. Prior to Surgient, Tejas was Vice President of Server & Storage systems for Dell Europe, Middle East, and Africa where he spearheaded the company's growth in servers to a #2 position in the market. He has also held senior positions at Compaq, Tandem, Sequent, and AT&T. Tejas holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras, India, an MS in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and an MBA from the University of Iowa.

Commented Vakil, "I'm proud to be working for a pioneer company like RLX, which has demonstrated leadership in innovative, cost-effective server solutions. I am confident that combined with its intelligent management software, RLX is very well positioned to deliver the systems that today's flexible IT architectures require, and achieve significant growth."

About RLX Technologies

RLX Technologies creates smarter computing and intelligent management solutions that are helping companies worldwide create more flexible, cost effective, and manageable IT infrastructures. The inventor of blade server technology, RLX is now leading the industry with the most manageable rack- optimized servers and Linux clusters on the market. RLX is the winner of InfoWorld's 2004 Technology of the Year Award for Best Server Blade System. Products are sold directly and through authorized partners. Additional information on RLX is available at http://www.rlx.com/ or by calling +1 866 759 9866.

RLX Technologies, RLX logos, Control Tower XT, ServerBlade and RackModule are trademarks or registered trademarks of RLX Technologies, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Microsoft and Windows are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Red Hat is a registered trademark of Red Hat Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. The information in this document is subject to change without notice.

RLX Technologies, Inc.

CONTACT: Simon Eastwick, Media Relations of RLX Technologies, Inc.,+1-281-863-2202, or mediarelations@rlx.com

Web site: http://www.rlx.com/

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