AMAX Information Technologies
Privately held company | |
Industry |
Computer industry Information technology |
Founded | 1979 |
Headquarters | Fremont, California, United States |
Products |
Server appliances Software defined networking Computing clusters Direct-attached storage GPU cluster Network-attached storage Personal supercomputer Storage area network Open Compute Project Converged Infrastructure Big Data Hadoop Parallel computing High performance computing Openstack |
Number of employees | +400 |
Website | www.amax.com |
AMAX is a privately held company based in Fremont, California in the United States that sells computer products and services to businesses.
Location and facilities
The company was founded in 1979, in Fremont, California, part of the Silicon Valley in the United States. The company has offices in North America and in Suzhou, Shanghai, China, and Ireland.
Services
AMAX designs and engineers customized platforms for data centers, cloud, big data, high-performance parallel computing and server-to-rack level OEM appliances. It offers prototyping and a manufacturing process, including custom branding of bezels, faceplates, chassis, and custom box packaging. It has a 5-stage manufacturing process with ISO 9001 standards.
Products
In 2008, AMAX introduced a line of high performance computing products based on the Nvidia Tesla Personal Supercomputer, with GPU technology. The systems were configured with Nvidia Tesla C1060/C2050/C2070/C2075 cards.[1] Other servers and cluster platforms available are configured with the Nvidia Tesla M2075/M2090/K10/K20/K40.
On April 25, 2011, AMAX announced the AMAX CloudMax private cloud appliance developed for businesses.[2]
In 2012, AMAX announced a cluster product based on Apache Hadoop named the PHAT-Data (Peta-scale Hadoop Analytics Technology). In August 2012, the PHAT-Data was awarded gold as the Best New Product of the Year in Hardware from the Stevie Awards.[3] In a subsequent collaboration with Mellanox, STec, Inc. and Zettaset, AMAX added PHAT-Data 40G to the PHAT-Data Hadoop cluster product line which would be a performance-oriented Hadoop cluster featuring SSDs and 40G networking.
In 2012, the company introduced a line of network-attached storage (NAS) appliances compatible with Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2012, and was listed as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner to provide these storage systems in North America.[4]
In 2013, AMAX became a provider for the Open Compute Project initiated by Facebook.[5]
In 2014, the CloudMax converged infrastructure product for data centers was announced, featuring compute, networking and storage components. CloudMax products included OpenStack. This product was distinct on its ability to be architecture using traditional server architecture or Open Compute architecture. In April 2014, the CloudMax was awarded as winner of the Intel Server Innovation Award at the Intel Solution Summit 2014.[6] Also in the following year, the CloudMax also received an award for Best of VMworld 2014 for Private Cloud that was announced during VMworld 2014 in San Francisco.
In 2014, AMAX introduced a line of computing products the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 V3 product family.[7]
In 2014, AMAX announced at Supercomputing 2014 (SC14) show the ClusterMax GPU cluster and ServMax GPU server platforms with NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU accelerator board.[8]
In 2014, AMAX introduced the ServMax Open CloudServer (OCS) data center product based on the Microsoft Open Cloud Server version 2 specifications.[9]
In 2015, AMAX announced at IPEXPO 2015 show , a deep learning engine from its Deep Learning product line.[10]
In 2016, AMAX announced its configure-to-order (CTO) service for security vendors.[11]
At the OCP Summit 2016, AMAX announced its [SMART] DC Data Center Manager software.[12]
In Mar 2016, AMAX announced its product lines were available with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 V4 family. [13]
Awards
- The security technology company McAfee awarded AMAX as their Supplier of the Year in 2010.[14]
- AMAX's PHAT-Data Apache Hadoop Cluster was awarded Best New Product or Service of the Year from the Stevie Awards in 2012[15]
- AMAX's PHAT-Data Apache Hadoop Cluster was awarded with the Innovated Solution Award from Ingram Micro's Systems ArchiTECHs in 2013.[16]
- AMAX’s CloudMax Converged Cloud Infrastructure was awarded Winner of the Intel Server Innovation Award from Intel Solutions Summit 2014.[17]
- AMAX's CloudMax Converged Cloud Infrastructure was awarded winner of the Best of VMworld 2014 for Private Cloud.[18]
- AMAX was granted the Hyperscale Converged Infrastructure Product Supplier of Excellence Award for their CloudMax Converged Cloud Infrastructure Platform.[19]
- SenseTime and AMAX Co-Developed Deep Learning Engine, SenseBox, wins 1st Place in two categories at the 6th annual ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC2015). [20]
References
- ↑ "Where to Buy". Nvidia.com. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
- ↑ "Amax moves from HPC clusters to cloud stacks - Half-rack private cloud for SMBs". theregister.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
- ↑ "The International Business Awards: AMAX PHAT-Data". Stevie Awards, Inc. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ↑ "Windows Storage Server 2012 - Learn How to Buy.". Microsoft. Retrieved 2012-09-11.
- ↑ "Solution Providers » Open Compute Project.". opencompute.org. Retrieved 2013-11-14.
- ↑ "Intel Technology Provider Blog.". Intel. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- ↑ "Xeon 'Grantley': 12 New Servers With Intel's Fastest Chip Yet.". CRN. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
- ↑ "AMAX to Support New NVIDIA Tesla K80 Dual-GPU Accelerators in ClusterMax(TM) Cluster and ServMax(TM) Server Platforms". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
- ↑ "AMAX to Introduce Microsoft Open CloudServer (OCS) v2 to HPC Community". Wallstreet Online. Retrieved 2014-11-18.
- ↑ "AMAX Showcasing Deep Learning Engine at IP EXPO 2015". PR Web. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
- ↑ "Configure-to-Oder: AMAX CTO Service Gives Security ISVs a Rapid Deployment Edge". PR Newswire. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
- ↑ "AMAX's [SMART]DC Data Center Manager Breaks Barrier of Entry for OCP and Real Power Savings". Datacentercage. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
- ↑ "AMAX Cloud, OCP, Storage, Deep Learning and Appliance Platforms Upgraded with Powerful Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 V4 Product Family". PR Newswire. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
- ↑ AMAX Wins Prestigious Supplier of the Year 2010 Award From McAfee
- ↑ "Best New Product or Service of the Year - Hardware". The Stevie Awards. Retrieved 2012-09-07.
- ↑ "Partner Awards at System ArchiTECHS Fall 2013". Ingram Micro. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
- ↑ "AMAX Wins Intel's Server Innovation Award for Converged Cloud Infrastructure Platform.". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved 2014-06-23.
- ↑ "Private Cloud Computing Technologies 2014 winners - The Best of VMworld 2014 Awards' winners". TechTarget. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
- ↑ "AMAX Wins the Intel 2015 Hyperscale Converged Infrastructure Product Supplier of Excellence Award". AMAX. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- ↑ "CUvideo Wins the First Place in Two Categories at ILSVRC2015". OpenStackAPI. Retrieved 2016-01-13.