With Linux gaining momentum as the open-source solution worldwide, enterprises relying on SAP(R) solutions now have a compelling new option for implementing flexible IT infrastructures. Today Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) announced that SAP solutions are now certified, supported and available on the award-winning SGI(R) Altix(R) server platform for Linux(R) environments. The certification means that both new and existing SAP customers can leverage the same scalable and high-throughput SGI(R) servers already adopted by many of the world’s leading automakers, energy giants, pharmaceutical companies, and manufacturers.
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Intel has begun a partnership to help a start-up company, Transitive, with software that enables computers with Intel chips to run programs written for rival processors. ………
Intel is Transitive’s third major publicly announced customer. The first was Silicon Graphics, whose customers can run software for their older MIPS-based computers on newer Itanium models. The second was Apple Computer, whose Transitive-based Rosetta product lets software for older PowerPC-based models run on new Intel Core-based machines.
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Dennis McKenna, the CEO of Silicon Graphics (OTC Bulletin Board: SGID), today unveiled his first major moves to achieve the goal of returning the company to
profitability. McKenna is taking decisive action implementing a new organizational structure that is based on a distributed and collaborative management model, with a philosophy to drive responsiveness, flexibility and accountability throughout the organization.
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The company responsible for those cool satellite images accessed by millions of Google Earth users said this week that it has almost completed an enormous upgrade to its internal IT infrastructure to increase production and support the launch of two more imagery satellites over the next two years.
…..DigitalGlobe has also added numerous servers over the past year, ranging from 40 small-to-midlevel enterprise servers from Sun Microsystems (V210 through V1280) to several high-end servers, including a Sun Fire 6800, a Sun Fire 12000, three Sun Fire 15000s and five Origin 3000 supercomputers from Silicon Graphics.
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