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Here's what they are saying
As customers are increasingly under pressure to do more with less, server technology that combines Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors with proven Linux expertise and support is an absolute requirement. In addition to the excellent value in hardware that these new Altus products offer, customers are also selecting us as a long-term partner based on the total value we provide. Our customers rely on the complete Penguin package; our innovative, painless purchase process, turnkey ability to pre-load and pre-test whole racks and easy to access to expert Linux support.
- -Pauline Nist, Senior Vice president, Product Development and Management, Penguin Computing
PSSC Labs continues to support AMD and their Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors. We will integrate all the latest AMD Opteron processors in every one of our Power Series of clusters, workstations and servers. PSSC Labs continues to be impressed by AMD’s product releases and we continue to receive positive comments from our end users in terms of performance and reliability.
- -Alex Lesser, Vice President, PSSC Labs
Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors pave the way for greater efficiency for dual- and quad-core computing. Our customers have come to expect high performance and low power consumption from Rackable Systems’ solutions — and the new evolution of AMD Opteron processors enables us to provide even greater choice and flexibility.
- -Giovanni Coglitore, Chief Technology Officer, Rackable Systems
At Red Hat, we recognize the value of 64-bit-enabled applications in IT, and have worked closely with AMD to develop and enable an innovative, high-performing hardware and software platform. This platform’s success is evidenced by the growing number of software vendors moving their development environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux supporting AMD64 technology across several industries, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and government. We look forward to continuing our work with AMD, enabling software development that is optimized with integrated virtualization from the operating system to the chipset and hardware.
- -Brian Stevens, Chief Technology Officer, Red Hat
With Solaris 10 we provide mainframe class features such as Predictive Self Healing and advanced virtualization capabilities such as Solaris Containers for a wide array of AMD Opteron™ processor-based systems from popular vendors. Our collaboration with AMD will simplify the development and delivery of new virtualization technologies and our Solaris Compatibility Guarantee ensures that customers deploying systems based on the Next-Generation AMD Opteron processor can expect a seamless upgrade path to the latest technology for their datacenter.
- -Tom Goguen, Vice President, System Software, Sun Microsystems
System level benefits such as enhanced power efficiency, advanced virtualization technology, and future core upgradeability are driving strong demand for Supermicro A+ Servers optimized for Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors. Another significant benefit is the new interface for DDR2 memory. Compared with DDR1, DDR2 memory consumes less power, has better market availability, and offers scalability for the high performance requirements of Supermicro server and workstation platforms.
- -Alex Hsu, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, Supermicro Computer, Inc
AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers have proven to be an outstanding platform for our customers deploying Virtuozzo for Linux and Virtuozzo for Windows. Due to Virtuozzo’s unique architecture, all AMD advances are immediately supported. The benefits provided by Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors, including the ability for our customers to scale servers across a single architecture, will enable greater opportunities for server consolidation, business continuity, reducing management complexity, and helping to address the important issues of data center efficiency.
- -Serguei Beloussov, CEO, SWsoft
Through the use of Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors, TYAN’s upcoming Transport server system and Thunder/Tiger/Tomcat platform products will deliver numerous features such as incredible power cost-savings efficiency, dual-core power, AMD Virtualization™ technology and quad-core upgradeability. All of these leveraged capabilities will equate to direct benefits for our server and workstation customers, who can experience further performance gains and significant cost overhead reduction, as well as outstanding efficiency in their applications.
- -Danny Hsu, Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, TYAN Computer
Our product development goals are essentially aligned with those of AMD in regard to reducing total cost of ownership, improving power efficiency and continuing thermal leadership. Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors are designed to accomplish these goals and to allow seamless dual-core to quad-core upgrades in the same thermal infrastructure without compromising memory RAS and helping reduce platform costs through DDR2 DIMM memory technology.
- -David Wright, CEO, Verari Systems
AMD is providing hardware-assisted virtualization support in the Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ processor. Our enterprise-class virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software are designed to take full advantage of these new processor capabilities and to provide users with outstanding performance and reliability with less overhead.
- -Alex Vasilevsky, Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Virtual Iron
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