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Itanium Solutions Alliance Welcomes Supermicro as Sponsor
SAN RAMON, Calif., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Itanium Solutions
Alliance welcomes Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI) as a sponsor of
the non-profit association. The server hardware manufacturer joins founding
sponsors Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, Hitachi, Intel, NEC and SGI in
committing time and resources to the growing organization, adding a unique
perspective and considerable expertise to the Alliance's efforts. Supermicro's
sponsorship will be announced tonight as part of the first annual Innovation
Celebration event honoring the Alliance's 2008 Innovation Award winners inSan
Francisco.
"It's our great pleasure to welcome Supermicro into the Itanium Solutions
Alliance, and we look forward to their leadership and strong contributions
toward our goal of accelerating the adoption and development of Itanium-based
solutions," said Joan Jacobs, executive director of the Alliance. "As a
veteran server manufacturer with strong ties to the system integrator channel,
Supermicro's participation will benefit the Alliance and its members with
their tremendous depth of experience in deploying Itanium-based solutions."
Supermicro joins the Alliance as a longtime manufacturer and vendor of
Itanium-based platforms. The company's SuperServer line employs Itanium
processing technology for a range of IT environments and applications,
providing powerful, highly scalable mission-critical infrastructure for IT
organizations and data centers.
"Our support of the Itanium Solutions Alliance reflects our commitment to
the market for Itanium-based solutions," said Charles Liang, president and CEO
of Supermicro. "We expect our customers to value the vast processing power,
exceptional reliability and application flexibility that our Itanium-based
servers deliver, and supporting the Alliance serves those customers, and our
business, very well."
The Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Award honors those who have most
creatively and innovatively implemented Itanium-based solutions within their
organizations. Tonight's event will honor 2008 winners the University of
Houston bioinformatics research team (in the Humanitarian Impact category);
Protegesoft (in the Enterprise Business Application category); and S7 Software
(in the Entrepreneurial Innovation category).
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Established in 1993, Supermicro emphasizes superior product design and
uncompromising quality control to produce industry-leading serverboards,
chassis and server systems. These Server Building Block Solutions provide
benefits across many environments, including data center deployment,
high-performance computing, high-end workstations, storage networks and
standalone server installations. For more information on Supermicro's complete
line of Itanium-based solutions, visit http://www.Supermicro.com
About the Itanium Solutions Alliance
The Itanium(R) Solutions Alliance is a global community of hardware,
operating system and application vendors dedicated to accelerating the
adoption and ongoing development of Itanium(R)-based solutions. Formed in
September 2005, the Alliance is comprised of some of the most influential
companies in the computing industry with a shared, strategic commitment to
delivering mission critical computing solutions based on the Intel(R)
Itanium(R) architecture. http://www.itaniumsolutions.org
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