Partners

Adaptec believes that companies of all sizes should have access to simple, cost-effective storage technology that makes it easy to protect business data and provides instant access to that data whenever and wherever it's needed. Adaptec also believes in a pay-as-you-grow model that allows customers to incrementally evolve storage solutions to new technologies, larger capacities, and value-added software functionality as business needs change.

Today, Adaptec provides one of the industry's broadest storage solution suites, from chips to internal host bus adapters and RAID controllers to external storage area networks (SAN), Ethernet-based iSCSI SAN (IP SAN), network attached storage (NAS), and the software that extends storage functionality and value.

AMD is working to develop computing solutions that meet the enterprise needs of today and tomorrow. Our efforts are focused around business solutions that:

Enable resource consolidation in the data center
More effectively drive database-oriented business applications
Grow the emerging world of cluster and grid computing
Shorten time to solutions with innovative client computing

At the center of every successful enterprise is the ability to develop, manage, and analyze the business-critical information that drives day-to-day operations. AMD-powered systems provide a performance platform for database engines and business processing and analytical applications. These are core to manage customer and employee data, pinpoint operational inefficiencies within an organization, and identify ways to gain competitive advantages.

According to a Gartner Group survey, 75% of medium-to-large enterprise companies are in the process of planning or implementing server consolidation projects. Physical consolidation projects can be classified into four types: server consolidation within existing racks; intra-building consolidation to recover real estate space and co-locate functions; inter-building consolidation to centralize server functions and recover space; and logical consolidation by employing high capacity servers and storage network devices. APC is the only manufacturer to offer rack-based, integrated solutions with power, power distribution, cooling, monitoring, and integration services.

BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Our products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform.

We enable companies to expand the ways they explore, discover, research, create, process and innovate in data-intensive environments. Our products replace complex and performance-limited products with high performance, scalable and easy to use systems capable of handling the most data intensive applications and environments. Further, we believe that our energy efficient design and our products' ability to consolidate legacy storage infrastructures, dramatically increases storage utilization rates and reduces our customers' total cost of ownership.

Worldwide data center energy consumption more than doubled between 2000 and 2005 according to a recent study1. In the United States alone, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates data centers consumed some 61 billion kilowatt-hours in 2006 - using the equivalent of the average yearly energy output for 15 power plants. As the global demand for more data and faster performance increases, data system energy costs continue to rise.

Brocade is taking steps to help improve energy efficiencies by focusing on products and programs that support the development of green data centers. We are committed to doing our part to provide our customers with high performance, low energy, data management solutions.

Without end-to-end virtualization, IT generally ends up massively over-provisioning, buying too much bandwidth, adding too many servers and refreshing PCs on an increasingly short life cycle just to keep up with growing application requirements.

Virtualization is a core enabler of application delivery because it allows the components of computing to be dynamically coupled and reassembled on the fly to ensure the best delivery experience. End-to-end virtualization helps in server consolidation and improved server performance.

End-to-End Virtualization with Citrix Delivery Center.

Citrix Delivery Center offers the broadest and best virtualization solutions for application delivery, enabling IT to control applications, desktops and the server infrastructure that supports them from the datacenter.

Founded in 1986, D-Link is a global leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of advanced networking, broadband, digital, voice and data communications solutions. Following our motto, "Building Networks for People", we continually meet the networking and connectivity needs of, small office professionals, small-to medium-sized businesses, and enterprise environments.

D-Link's core competency is in Ethernet connectivity. In fact, we are the global leader in providing network connectivity solutions to small and medium-sized business. From the beginning, D-Link engineers have researched, designed and manufactured innovative, standards-based networking solutions. We sell our state-of-the-art hardware at the best prices. Price may be the deciding factor for many new customers, but D-Link innovation, reliability and service keeps them loyal year after year.

Digi-Data produced its first SCSI RAID controller in 1992. It incorporated five key patents involving RAID technology and virtualization, which form the basis of the STORM (STorage On Redundant Modules) architecture.

Bringing a unique, clustered architecture to market that scaled in multiple dimensions ( performance, capacity, availability and access ), Digi-Data found their niche in several major accounts, including Disney, DLJ, ABC, FermiLabs, and World Bank. Leveraging the unequalled capacity and availability characteristics of the T-4000 Clustered RAID technology, and the Internet storage management architecture, Digi-Data is emerging as a leader in the Storage-as-a-Service arena. With a comprehensive API to connect financial, data protection, or content management applications, partners can add the dimension of remote protection and anywhere-access to their list of features.

Eaton is a leading global provider of comprehensive power quality and backup power management solutions, consistently delivering the high 9s of availability demanded by today's digital economy under the Powerware brand. Powerware solutions include the broadest range of powerquality products and services available today:

Uninterruptible Power Systems
DC Power Systems
Management Software
Comprehensive Services

Powerware solutions have been recognized by UPS users and industry experts for delivering highest customer value and satisfaction as well as for demonstrating most insight into customer needs among all UPS vendors*.

Ranked number one in the global UPS market above 5 kVA and number two at or under 5000 VA, Powerware products and services have earned the confidence of customers of all sizes worldwide.

GETAC provides both turn-key rugged solutions and customized configure to order solutions for the military, law enforcement, public safety, utility, telecommunication, manufacturing, field service and mobile workforce industries. GETAC is able to customize configure-to-order and custom engineered products with a variety of options and features. With a current factory monthly manufacturing capacity of 200,000 units, GETAC is able to handle large orders with rigorous quality and ruggedized testing procedures to provide quality assurance.

With world-class R&D and engineering capabilities, GETAC provides customers with sophisticated, rugged portables that make GETAC a complete supplier of rugged computing solutions for the mobile workforce. GETAC products are supported worldwide by our resellers and localized service providers. GETAC understands that the product life cycles of its customers are much longer than the computer industry technology cycles and, as such, designs product generations to enhance processing power while maintaining the physical design, form-factor and fit. This consistent design provides true cost-effective solutions while delivering the product support required by military, government, commercial and industrial customers.

Click here to read how Rugged PC Review rates GETAC's mobile portables against the competition.

Infortrend is a leading provider of high performance Networked Storage Solutions. Our RAID subsystems support SCSI, Fibre Channel, SATA and SAS.

Infortrend delivers the market's first RAID subsystem to employ SATA and SAS technology providing improved reliability, scalability, and availability. With extreme expertise in RAID technologies, firmware, driver, and ASIC design, Infortrend has the technical experience in-house to provide leading-edge storage solution.

Because of its high performance and comparatively low cost, 10GbE CX4 is a highly effective fabric for connectivity within high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. As the term "cluster" implies, HPC platforms are typically located in close proximity to each other, generally well within the 15-meter range of 10GbE CX4 connectivity.

This being the case, 10GbE CX4 provides an excellent connectivity solution for . Intel PRO/10GbE CX4 server adapters are used in each server for server-to-server connectivity through the stacked Fujitsu XG700 switches. In addition to their low unit cost, the Fujitsu XG700 switch has a low profile and small footprint, making it ideal for stacking to provide high-density 10GbE CX4 switching. This low profile is a result of full integration of the 12-port switch onto a single LSI chip. The high level of integration also results in lower power consumption, which is also a critical consideration in high-density HPC cluster environments.

Platforms based on the Intel® 955X Express Chipset and Intel® Pentium® processor Extreme Edition deliver incredible digital entertainment experiences and meet the most demanding business applications of today and tomorrow.
The Intel 955X Express Chipset enables Intel's highest performance platforms, with support for the new Intel dual-core processor supporting Hyper-Threading Technology?1, adding intelligence to help manage and prioritize four software threads simultaneously for the first time on desktop PCs. Additionally, this chipset supports key performance-optimized capabilities such as Intel® Memory Pipeline Technology (Intel® MPT), up to 8 GB memory addressability to help enable 64-bit computing, and ECC memory support.

One of the quickest and easiest ways to identify the right memory modules and expansion options for your computer is to use a memory configurator. Like some of the other major memory manufacturers, Kingston makes a memory configurator available. You can access Kingston's configurator through their home page at www.kingston.com.

The most important thing to ensure when buying memory is compatibility with your system. In addition, you'll need to decide how much memory you need and beyond that lie considerations of price, quality, availability, service, and warranty.

With the explosive onset of the Internet and advances in broadband and mobile communications, today's social infrastructure has been reinvented. This diversification in customer requirements can only be satisfied by utilizing state-of-the-art technologies and a wealth of experience. NEC brings together all it has achieved in various fields, including IT and networking, in order to develop innovative solutions that realize the highest level of customer satisfaction.

In the increasingly complex world that is developing around us, NEC is playing an important role in creating the innovation that shapes our lives.

Overland Storage delivers robust data backup solutions that are affordable, flexible, and easily integrated into existing network attached storage infrastructures. We offer a broad portfolio of tape libraries and autoloaders, virtual tape libraries, and disk-based backup systems. Our fast, reliable disk storage solutions include integrated data protection software, offering users the ultimate in data protection and availability.

Overland Storage can provide your business with sophisticated Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions that keep your critical data safe, protected, and available-backup hardware and software that allows you to quickly backup and restore. Optimal Storage Virtualization makes it possible to simplify storage management, maximize capacity utilization, and lower costs.

Protection OS software enables users to implement Overland appliances in almost any storage or backup environment and is compatible with all popular operating systems and backup software along with Ethernet (iSCSI) and Fibre Channel networks. It's never been easier to deploy protected primary storage and disk-based backup as part of a complete disk-to-disk (D2D) or disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) solution.

OYO Instruments, LP has provided quality thermal printing devices for the seismic industry for nearly two decades. Our products are reputed to be the most reliable in the industry. We offer a plotter for almost any data acquisition need. Whether you need to print to paper or film, from 12" to 54" wide, portable or office, we've got a plotter for you. .

The GS-612 performs reliably in heavy-duty applications. It can be wall mounted or placed on a table top, and does not have to be level to plot. It is ideal for seismic quality control applications in processing centers, workstations, and in the field.

The GS-612-P Thermal Plotter is built for portability. Its small size and rugged construction with a waterproof case make it an ideal output device for seismic, industrial, and military applications. The direct thermal dry plotting process assures crisp clear plots and uniform image density regardless of ambient temperature and humidity.

The 600 x 1200 Direct Thermal Film Plotters were designed for use with a chemistry- free, dry film developed specifically for OYO. These give plots with print resolution, dot clarity, and film densities that equal or exceed specifications of most existing photographic film plotters.

Promise Technology is recognized as a global leader in the storage industry and as an innovator in RAID technology. Everyday enterprise class data centers around the world choose Promise RAID solutions as the technology of choice to protect their critical information and to ensure continuous data availability.

Their confidence in these RAID solutions is a reflection of Promise's commitment to providing the quality, reliability and support that these data centers demand. This commitment to quality is why enterprise class performance and reliability can be found in every Promise product, from the data center to the desktop.

QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions, which include the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage networks for most Global 2000 corporations. The company delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes Fibre Channel HBAs, blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs and iSCSI routers.

The company is also a leading supplier of InfiniBand switches and InfiniBand host channel adapters for the emerging high performance computing market. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index.

QLogic, together with its partners, has been constructing high performance interconnect fabric solutions for HPC clusters in multiple markets for years. With extremely low latencies and impressive bandwidth, QLogic fabrics allow high performance computing environments to process greater workloads and scale to larger configurations than ever before. Bandwidth of up to 20Gbps, and switching latencies measured in microseconds means more effective applications. QLogic's HPC solutions are based upon InfiniBand, a common industry standard providing open interoperability, and volume cost efficiencies while supporting connectivity to existing networks.

As the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive for more than 27 years, Quantum has been focused on helping IT departments address data protection and data retention challenges by incorporating innovative solution sets with world-class service and support.

Backup, recovery, and archive needs are growing in scale and complexity. IT managers face ever-expanding data volumes, more stringent recovery requirements, new security guidelines, and static budgets. To add further complication, there is increasing pressure to minimize power, cooling, and space in the datacenter by adopting "greener" processes.

Because meeting this complex, rapidly evolving needs often require multiple technologies and approaches, Quantum is uniquely positioned to address each facet in the backup, recovery and archive process. We deliver intelligent and innovative solutions that integrate disk, tape, replication, and encryption, and we work with customers to match the right technologies to their specific business requirements. Our advice is tailored for each individual company, and like our solutions, it is always technology and platform independent.

Samsung Electronics, the world`s leading supplier of memory devices, and Intel, the world`s largest CPU maker, today announced the implementation of a strategic relationship aimed at expanding the market for Rambusa DRAM (RDRAMa), a next-generation, high-speed memory product.

Under the terms of the agreement, Intel will support capital expenditure investments that will be used to attain additional component test and qualifying capacity needed to boost RDRAM output. Without having to make separate investments on its own, Samsung will be able to turn out at least 10 million RDRAM a month, solidifying the company`s leading position in this market.

ScaleMP is the leader in virtualization for high-end computing, providing higher performance and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The innovative Versatile SMP (vSMP) architecture aggregates multiple x86 systems into a single virtual x86 system, delivering an industry-standard, high-end symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) computer. Using software to replace custom hardware and components, ScaleMP offers a new, revolutionary computing paradigm. vSMP Foundation is a software-only solution that eliminates the need for extensive R&D or proprietary hardware components in developing high-end x86 systems, and reduces overall end-user system cost and operational expenditures. vSMP Foundation aggregates up to 16 x86 systems to create a single system with 4 to 32 processors (128 cores) and up to 1 TB of shared memory.

Solutions based on vSMP Foundation provide superior performance at prices significantly lower than traditional SMPs and comparable to managed x86 clusters. These solutions conserve the advantages of the traditional SMP operating model (ease of installation and management as well as large memory) while leveraging the broad x86-based applications portfolio.

ScaleMP's revolutionary computing paradigm provide significant benefits throughout the compute chain, allowing customers to:

AGGREGATE several systems to create large x86 systems

SCALE application compute, memory and I/O resources in a near linear fashion resulting in top performance

SIMPLIFY system installation and ongoing management by reducing the total number of systems

SAVE money by leveraging standard components to deliver SMP at cluster prices

Virtualization has changed the world of high performance computing for datacenters needing to optimize server utilization. SMC Networks, Inc. integrates virtualization support for VMWare, Zen, and Hyper-V into their newly released 10G Adapter solutions.

Included as part of this family is the industry's first 10GBASE-T adapter, which uses Cat-6a cabling to deliver 10G Ethernet. These adapters use a variety of mechanisms to deliver industry leading cost/performance metrics on almost any operating system available today including Windows 2008 Server. These architectures provide the most efficient way to maximize network and CPU efficiency.

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. With a reputation for being first to deliver, Supermicro's high-end motherboards and servers consistently out-feature and out-perform the competition. Expansion into modular computing and enterprise storage system development further solidifies Supermicro's server technology leadership.

GCN Product of the Year

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Gold Standard X8SAX

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#1 X86 Server Channel Affinity

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CRN Custom System SW7045A

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Investor's Business Daily Top Company

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Phoronix Editor's Choice C2SBX+, C2SEA

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Best Green Datacenter Solution

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Test Center Recommends SuperBlade

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TMS RamSan products offer a variety of performance, capacity, configuration, and cost options to accelerate essential applications in industries ranging from financial services, telecommunications, and e-commerce to oil and gas, entertainment, and gaming, as well as governmental and commercial high performance computing environments.

TMS RAM SSDs are the World's Fastest Storage®. No other storage products can match the I/Os per second or provide the massive bandwidth a RamSan can provide. Hundreds of locations around the world use TMS products to accelerate databases, SANs, batch processes, and other high performance applications.

TOTOKU is a leading worldwide manufacturer of medical imaging displays, and flat panel displays for general business use. Its high-end, price-performance medical imaging displays are backed by its unique technology breakthroughs and know-how, from decades of solid experience in the industry since 1972.

In addition to healthcare, TOTOKU serves a multitude of business segments, including factories, broadcast stations, graphic artists, gaming, front office, and many other applications, earning high marks for its product reliability under harsh conditions, and its post-installation support.

TOTOKU provides high-performance displays for specialized fields by developing leading-edge technologies, while providing consistently optimal customer service.

VMware is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.33 billion, more than 120,000 customers and nearly 18,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest-growing public software companies. VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and on the Web at http://www.vmware.com/.

VMware's broad and proven suite of virtualization solutions addresses a range of complex challenges facing IT organizations, including:

Server Consolidation & Infrastructure Optimization

Business Continuity

Virtual Lab Automation

Enterprise Desktop Management

Voltaire provides grid backbone solutions for networked computing in the next generation data center and focuses on improving data center efficiency by enabling grid computing deployments on commodity server and storage offerings. Voltaire's fully integrated family of switching hardware and network virtualization software delivers the highest performance, intelligent backbone for grid computing architectures. Leveraging the InfiniBand standard, Voltaire solutions offer improved performance, utilization and scalability across compute clusters, storage and IP networks.

Voltaire solutions are used for high performance computing (HPC) applications and grid computing environments in enterprise data centers and by government and research institutions.