Technology Partners

Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD provides microprocessors, Flash memory devices, and silicon-based solutions for customers in the communications and computer industries worldwide. AMD products are developed with customer needs always in mind and not for the sake of innovation alone. Stated more plainly, it means that AMD exists to provide real solutions for real customer problems that exist in the real world today.

American Power Conversion (APC) provides protection against some of the leading causes of downtime, data loss and hardware damage: power problems and temperature. As a global leader in power availability solutions, APC sets the standard in its industry for quality, innovation and support. APC's comprehensive AC and DC power solutions improve the manageability, availability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communications and industrial equipment of all sizes.

Avocent is the leading global provider of KVM switching and network connectivity solutions for data centers of all sizes. The history of Avocent innovation to advance the KVM industry includes: multi-platform switching, analog matrix switching, extension over CAT 5, PCI bus extension, patented on-screen menus, remote KVM over IP connectivity, digital serial over IP, digital-analog integrated access to multiple servers, IPMI, wireless KVM, hand-held solutions, and hub and spoke multiple failover technology.

Founded in 1998, Epicenter has assembled a staff with years of experience in delivering innovative cost-effective solutions. Epicenter's mission is to develop and deliver creative, cost-effective hardware and software solutions that address the many problems faced by Information Technology professionals in the management of large, server-based computer facilities. Epicenter is committed to delivering products that address data center management issues with customer support as its highest priority.

A prime advantage of the simplified Extreme Networks approach is that your network is scalable as you grow. But future-readiness means far more than scalability. Extreme's technology vision is Ethernet Everywhere - a unified global network architecture, based on a single technology, capable of delivering any application or service to any port, anywhere in the world, at any time. Extreme is committed to solving the single, defining business problem for the early 21st century: implementing the most effective applications and services infrastructure.

For 35 years, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products.

JMR is a premier supplier of storage systems, shipping hundreds of units weekly, worldwide. JMR has been in business for over 24 years, and with 20+ patents filed, JMR continues to create innovative technologies in Blade Storage, SATA, Fibre Channel, and SCSI storage systems.

Founded in 1989, Lantronix, Inc. creates innovative solutions that connect people and devices to networks and the Internet. Lantronix provides devices and systems to help IT professionals manage and access large network infrastructure and equipment efficiently. They also focus on is the area of device networking and can provide technology to connect virtually any electronic product to a network or the Internet.

Myricom created Myrinet, the leading high-speed network for connecting computers to form clusters. Myrinet clusters are used for computationally demanding scientific and engineering applications, and for data-intensive web and database applications. Myricom's technical team of engineers, programmers, and chip designers is constantly advancing Myrinet technology in performance and features.

PathScale develops software and hardware solutions that enable Linux clusters to achieve new levels of performance and efficiency. Founded in 2001 by a small team of computer system industry veterans, the PathScale mission is to develop technologies to accelerate the adoption of Linux clusters.

The Portland Group, Inc. (a.k.a. PGI) is the premier supplier of software compilers and tools for parallel computing, known on markets as PGI products. The Portland Group offers high performance scalar and parallel Fortran, C and C++ compilers and tools for32-bit x86 (AMD Athlon XP, Intel Pentium 4 and Xeon), 64-bit AMD64 technology (AMD Opteron) and 64-bit IA32 EM64T (Intel Xeon-64) processor-based workstations, servers and clusters.

QLogic Corporation simplifies the process of networking storage for OEMs, resellers and system integrators. With the vision of a SAN in every business, QLogic produces the controller chips, host bus adapters (HBAs) and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company serves customers with solutions based on all storage network technologies including SCSI, Internet SCSI (iSCSI) and Fibre Channel.

Red Hat is the world's most trusted provider of Linux and open source technology. They are the recognized leader in enterprise solutions that take full advantage of the quality and performance provided by the open source model. With Red Hat, enterprise hardware and software vendors have a standard platform on which to certify their technology. They assure the necessary scalability and security of open source software and make mission-critical Linux deployments possible.

Seagate's position as the world's largest manufacturer of disc drives places it at the heart of today's information-centric world. Throughout its history, Seagate has successfully relied on a strategy of ownership and vertical integration of key underlying technologies: designing, developing and producing the components that underpin its storage products, rather than relying solely on outside suppliers.

Founded in 1993, Supermicro Computer, Inc. emphasizes superior product design and quality control to produce highly reliable mission-critical servers that maximize price/performance ratio for its customers. Always first to deliver, Supermicro's high-end motherboards and servers consistently outperform the competition. Expansion into modular computing and enterprise storage system development further solidifies Supermicro's server technology leadership.

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server empowers businesses to leverage Linux and open source by delivering a scalable, high-performance foundation for secure enterprise computing. Built for reliability, it offers comprehensive functionality to power today's networks and meet user demands. SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server also supports a broad range of hardware platforms and leading software applications.

Tyan Computer Corporation, founded in 1989 by long-time Intel and IBM executive, Dr. T. Symon Chang, designs, manufactures and markets innovative Internet platforms. Tyan system board products are sold to OEMs, Systems Integrators, VARs and Resellers worldwide. In addition to Internet appliances and high-performance desktop workstations and PCs, Tyan's latest server products feature design enhancements specifically developed for enterprise computer room and data center environments.

Microsoft works to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. Everything they do reflects this mission and the values that make it possible. Some of the toughest computing challenges in the world are tackled and often solved by using high performance computing (HPC) clusters. Companies can now deploy clusters of servers running high-performance versions of Microsoft Windows to benefit from supercomputing power at a fraction of the cost.