PowerLeader Represents Asia-Pacific Region on Contest Panel

Beijing, China , 2006-11-28

The Itanium(R) Solutions Alliance announced on Monday that Chen Qiwang of PowerLeader Science and Technology Co., Ltd. has been chosen to judge contest submissions in the Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Contest. Qiwang will join a judging panel of top industry minds focused on recognizing outstanding achievements in Itanium(R) 2-based computing. The panel will judge entries on a number of criteria such as difficulty of challenge, results produced and originality.

Chen Qiwang is the Itanium product manager of PowerLeader Science & Technology Co., Ltd., an Itanium Solutions Alliance Associate Sponsor and member of the Alliance's Asia-Pacific Regional Committee. Qiwang graduated from Southwest Science & Technology University where he majored in automatization. Qiwang has spent many years operating in the Linux community and began working in the HPC industry in 2004. When Qiwang joined PowerLeader in 2006, he was in charge of their Itanium 2-based systems program.

"With so many possibilities in the Itanium architecture landscape, it will be exciting to see, first-hand, the innovative ways that companies around the world are using the architecture to increase their computing capabilities," said Qiwang.

Additional judges joining Qiwang on the panel include Tony DeVarco, corporate alliance manager at Symantec; Renee J. James, vice president and general manager of the Software and Solutions Group for Intel Corporation; Gale Persil, director of product management operations at Computer Associates and Mark K. Smith, managing director for the Gelato Federation.

The Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Contest will showcase unique and innovative deployments of Itanium 2-based applications. End users and software developers of Itanium-based solutions are encouraged to enter their solution into the contest in one of three categories. One winner in each category will receive a $50,000 cash prize. Contest entries are due January 31, 2007. The award categories include:

-- Humanitarian Impact: The Humanitarian Impact category awards innovative use of applications running on Itanium 2-based systems where these systems demonstrate a profound impact on humanity through research, social improvements or other humanitarian efforts. Examples include weather prediction, storm monitoring, tsunami model forecasting and genetic and medical research.

-- Enterprise Business Applications: The Enterprise Business category awards the innovative use of applications utilizing the benefits of Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 architecture to produce either hard business results (such as cost savings and ROI) or soft business impact (including customer satisfaction and new product development).

-- Entrepreneurial: The Entrepreneurial Innovation award is open to all entities, excluding public companies with revenues exceeding $25 million in the last reporting period. The award will recognize enhanced business operations using applications that take full advantage of the Intel Itanium 2 architecture and will reward achievements in areas such as IT consolidation, increased ROI, increased customer satisfaction and new product development.

In addition to the grand prizes of $50,000, other accolades will be awarded. For more information about the program and to download an application, please visit the Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Contest Website at http://www.itaniumsolutionsalliance.org/innovation/.

About The Itanium Solutions Alliance

The Itanium Solutions Alliance was formed by leading enterprise and technical solutions providers to work together towards a common objective of transitioning the world of proprietary computing platforms to open, industry standard solutions based on Intel Itanium architecture. Together with leading enterprise software and hardware providers, the Alliance is dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of Itanium-based solutions. Its membership comprises some of the most influential companies in the computing industry.

About Power Leader

Since 1997, Power Leader Technology Co., Ltd. has accumulated a wealth of experience and successful cases and well established the brand of "Power Leader" in Chinese server market. Power Leader listed as the third largest domestic server vendor and top 10 server vendor in APAC. Meanwhile, Power Leader was nominated by the government as "High-tech enterprise" and " Top 100 technology enterprise" in Shenzhen. With new technology, products and services, Power Leader attains the comprehensive market and support from other leading hardware and software vendors, Power Leader today has continued to be a thought leader in application and solution of server market in China.

Power Leader is the only domestic server supplier based on Intel IA architecture. Power Leader delivers products and solutions for various industries that apply to Intel microprocessors, motherboards, hardware, application software, and Intel server management and optimal server performance. Currently the company has completed a series of embedded functions for specific products, including tower server, platform server, blade server, Itanium-based high end server, high performance computing and a series of application server and storage products. These products have built high reputation and reached a wide range of customer base across telecom, finance, education and government. Currently, Power Leader is the only Chinese hardware supplier as an associate sponsor with Itanium Solutions Alliance and the most important strategic partner with Intel in China.
Contact

CONTACT: Fleishman Co., Ltd Wang Chen 86 21 6407 0066*821 [email protected] or Itanium(R) Solutions Alliance Jenny Bragg 206-322-1167 x 113 [email protected] , ,