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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), a world leader in high-performance computing, storage and visualization, today announced the latest enhancements to SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Data Migration Facility (DMF). These enhancements further the company’s leadership in delivering on the promise of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced the Open Storage initiative. This new program enables hardware storage vendors qualified by SGI to run SGI(R) InfiniteStorage software, a suite of storage solutions designed specifically for the most demanding data environments. Open storage provides IS managers flexibility and investment protection for managing data over multi-vendor environments.
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…. IBM now plans to bridge that divide using a feature of its new Power5 processors. With a technology called Virtual Vector Architecture, or ViVA, the 16 processor cores of a scalar server such as IBM’s Power5-based p5-570 can be yoked together to act like a single vector processor.
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The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) today recognized Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) for its outstanding export market expansion by awarding the company the DOC Export Achievement Certificate. The award was presented in a ceremony held in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, the site of SGI’s manufacturing facility. The company will be given the award as an example of how U.S. firms can “in- source” their high-value manufacturing and successfully compete throughout the world while manufacturing their products solely in the United States. Fewer than 100 of these certificates are given annually.
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