American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) creates and manufactures key hardware and software solutions for the global computer marketplace, providing the highest quality and compatibility necessary to build today’s advanced computing systems. Established by S. Shankar in 1985, AMI’s mission is to design state-of-the-art computer solutions and develop advanced technology for the best computing solutions in the world. Today, AMI is the world’s largest BIOS firmware vendor, with AMIBIOS® deployed in more than 65% of all computers worldwide.

American Megatrends has been in the data storage business since 1994, with the inception of the MegaRAID® Host Bus Array (HBA). AMI quickly ascended to become the world’s largest third party RAID vendor. By 1996 AMI was well known for its RAID expertise and was named the number one third-party host-based RAID controller manufacturer in the world by Gartner Group’s Dataquest. In 2001, AMI sold its MegaRAID® Division to LSI Logic, in order to focus on expanding its lineup of NAS and IP-SAN solutions. In 2002, AMI launched the StorTrends® Product Division, and has moved steadily forward from this point with its sights set on once again being a leader in the storage market.

Today, StorTrends iTX data storage software and StorTrends IP-SAN and NAS storage appliances are installed in dozens of countries, and trusted by Tier One OEMs, SMBs, local governments and institutions. StorTrends empowers users with a fast, flexible setup and provisioning routine, and dramatically reduces the time and cost required to manage, maintain and expand a SAN environment, whether locally or remotely. While AMI relies on standard and proven technologies and standards like Linux and iSCSI to reduce costs and time-to-market (TTM), AMI’s value-add has always been in the careful and meticulous design of its storage software technology.

Created by the engineering team that developed the award-winning and ubiquitous MegaRAID® controller, StorTrends storage appliances utilize Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware, thereby guaranteeing the user the latest in hardware technology at the best possible price. The development team for StorTrends products is based in AMI’s R&D facility in Fremont, California and is headed by Paresh Chatterjee, AMI Chief Technology Officer and the main architect behind AMI’s success with MegaRAID. Mr. Chatterjee and his team have amassed over 50 patents in storage and data backup technology for AMI’s Storage Products division, and have ported their StorTrends iTX Data Storage software to a number of storage appliance platforms including Supermicro 1U, 2U and 3U Intel®-based appliances, several Intel® Enabled Server Architecture Alliance (ESAA) storage server platforms and the dualcontroller Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) from AMD.

In addition to serving the SMB and enterprise markets, AMI also offers its StorTrends solutions to the OEM markets by leveraging its strong relationships with Tier One manufacturers. In fact, AMI’s StorTrends IP-SAN solution has been a key part of the groundbreaking Secure Managed Client (SMC) solution from Lenovo since 2008.

About American Megatrends Inc. (AMI)

Founded in 1985, AMI has been consistent as a leader in the technology industry, including a number of firsts:

• First to build motherboards based on the Intel® 386 and 486 processor platforms, and first to use onboard external cache designs to significantly improve their performance
• First to build and ship a motherboard based on the Intel® Quad-Xeon® processor: the MegaPlex®
• First to support USB in BIOS, first to create a GUI BIOS interface with mouse support, first to integrate diagnostics into BIOS, and first to support ACPI with AMIBIOS®, a consistent leader in the BIOS market
• First zero-U, rack- and desktop-free, digital KVM over IP solution
• AMI's MegaRAC® G2 remote management card was named a finalist at the 2002 NetWorld+Interop trade show, and received a CRN Ultimate Server award in 2003

AMI's extensive product line includes StorTrends® IP Storage Area Network (IP-SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions, Aptio™ and AMIBIOS® system software and firmware, MegaRAC® remote management software and PCI/OPMA hardware, motherboards, backplanes, diagnostic utilities, and engineering services. With these product groups, AMI is uniquely positioned to provide all of the fundamental components necessary to offer complete system performance, manageability, and availability for today's enterprise computing requirements. AMI is the only company in the industry today offering all of these core technologies.
AMI holds an ISO 9001:2000 certification, in recognition of its commitment to quality. AMI customers receive the highest quality products the first time, every time. AMI recognizes the increasing demand for reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) in products from notebooks to servers, and provides a line of software diagnostics that supports this effort. AMI continues to succeed in today's highly competitive marketplace by bringing new products to market with advanced technology and design, and is recognized each year for these efforts with numerous awards and contracts.
Headquartered in Atlanta, and with offices around the world, AMI offers unmatched service and support. With more than 60 percent of its employees contributing engineering capacity, AMI can provide customers with unrivaled hardware and software design services, and is uniquely qualified to extend its customers a high level of product customization and technical support services.

For more information on AMI, its products or services, call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI.