Silicon Graphics Technology Opens New Opportunities for Industrial and Research Customers

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (December 8, 2008) - Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (NASDAQ: SGIC) global shared memory architecture enables industrial, government and university researchers to gain insight into larger data sets than ever thought possible. With 8TB of global shared memory, SGI® Altix® systems are able to hold entire data sets in memory and eliminate many types of application and system I/O - acce ...

Fujitsu Limited and Red Hat, Inc. today announced that they have strengthened their global alliance for providing Linux support services for mission-critical environments.

Building on the maintenance and support expertise Fujitsu has cultivated through its mainframe systems, the two companies have jointly developed new Linux support services that are designed to provide quicker response times and extended support periods for mission-critical systems.

The new support services will be avai ...

Virtualization, application support and TCO speeds migration to Itanium-based systems
as Alliance marks year of growth

China Shanghai, November 12, 2008 – Today, the Itanium® Solutions Alliance announced strong momentum in several areas in 2008, which mirrored Itanium-based solutions growth in Asia Pacific. Itanium-based systems saw significant growth in system migration from mainframes attributed to virtualization support, broad availability of applications and total co ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 got the lion's share of attention on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, starting with a keynote by Microsoft exec Bill Laing.

Laing is Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Windows Server Division. While much of the news about Windows Server 2008 R2 features had been disclosed last week at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference, the keynote hit the high points for an audience consisting largely of Microsoft's hardware e ...

Microsoft has been working with partners to support more than 64 processors for Windows applications and device drivers. IBM, Intel and HP today joined Bill Laing, corporate vice president of Windows Server and Solutions, during his keynote address to showcase the scalability benefits of supporting more than 64 processors, a new feature of Windows Server 2008 R2. This capability allows customers to take advantage of the latest hardware advancements for improved performance.

"Customers nee ...

HP today announced that 40 European customers have successfully migrated in the past year from legacy mainframe systems to HP Integrity servers, achieving data center cost savings of up to 70 percent.(1)

Increasingly, companies are migrating from mainframes to HP Integrity servers for mission-critical IT operations in an effort to reduce high hardware operating and software licensing costs. HP expects to help migrate an additional 125 European companies in the next 12 months.

HP's contin ...

Alliance Boosts SGI Real-Time Visual Complex Event Processing Solution

SUNNYVALE and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (Oct. 21, 2008) - Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGIC) and Coral8, Inc. today announced a strategic alliance to integrate and package Coral8's complex event processing (CEP) software with SGI® Altix® servers. The new agreement makes the Coral8 Engine a core part of a new real-time, visual CEP capability from Silicon Graphics.

"Coral8 and SGI are bringing powerful new ...

Thane Janata Sahakari Bank (TJSB), a co-operative bank with a network of 42 branches and two extension counters spread in Thane, Mumbai Navi-Mumbai, Pune, and Nashik, It is planning to upgrade its existing server infrastructure to Itanium-based servers.

Subodh Nagvekar, CIO of TJSB said, "The decentralised branch banking approach didn't quite work in the current business scene so a contemporary technology-based core banking solution was the need of the hour. We are now looking to implemen ...

New Alliances Enhance Ability to Rapidly Extract Insights from Large-Scale Oracle Data Warehouse

At Oracle Open World today, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGIC) showcased new third-party applications that extend the ecosystem of the SGI® Adaptive Data Warehouse Solution.

The new tools help make the SGI solution, optimized for Oracle® data warehouses, even more effective in managing soaring data volumes, increasingly complex analyses, data mining and visualization, multiple work ...

Significant new release ports TeleUSE to multiple high-performance systems

San Diego, CA, September 15, 2008-Aonix®, an independent international company delivering complete solutions for safety- and mission-critical applications, released TeleUSE® version 4.0, the latest version of its object-oriented User Interface Management System environment, for 64-bit architectures. New platform support in TeleUSE 4.0 enables seamless cross-platform Motif graphical user interface (GUI) applica ...