company industry computer industry information technology founded 1979 headquarters fremont california united states products server appliances software defined networking computing clusters direct attached storage gpu cluster network attached storage personal supercomputer storage area network open compute project converged infrastructure big data hadoop parallel computing high performance computing openstack number of employees 400 website www.amax.com this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . february 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message amax is a privately held company based in fremont california in the united states that sells computer products and services to businesses . contents 1 location and facilities 2 services 3 products 4 awards 5 references location and facilities edit the company was founded in 1979 in fremont california part of the silicon valley in the united states . the company has offices in north america and in suzhou shanghai china and ireland . services edit amax designs and engineers customized platforms for data centers cloud big data high performance parallel computing and server to rack level oem appliances . it offers prototyping and a manufacturing process including custom branding of bezels faceplates chassis and custom box packaging . it has a 5 stage manufacturing process with iso 9001 standards . products edit in 2008 amax introduced a line of high performance computing products based on the nvidia tesla personal supercomputer with gpu technology . the systems were configured with nvidia tesla c1060 c2050 c2070 c2075 cards . 1 other servers and cluster platforms available are configured with the nvidia tesla m2075 m2090 k10 k20 k40 . on april 25 2011 amax announced the amax cloudmax private cloud appliance developed for businesses . 2 in 2012 amax announced a cluster product based on apache hadoop named the phat data peta scale hadoop analytics technology . in august 2012 the phat data was awarded gold as the best new product of the year in hardware from the stevie awards . 3 in a subsequent collaboration with mellanox stec inc. and zettaset amax added phat data 40g to the phat data hadoop cluster product line which would be a performance oriented hadoop cluster featuring ssds and 40g networking . in 2012 the company introduced a line of network attached storage nas appliances compatible with microsoft windows storage server 2012 and was listed as a microsoft gold certified partner to provide these storage systems in north america . 4 in 2013 amax became a provider for the open compute project initiated by facebook . 5 in 2014 the cloudmax converged infrastructure product for data centers was announced featuring compute networking and storage components . cloudmax products included openstack . this product was distinct on its ability to be architecture using traditional server architecture or open compute architecture . in april 2014 the cloudmax was awarded as winner of the intel server innovation award at the intel solution summit 2014 . 6 also in the following year the cloudmax also received an award for best of vmworld 2014 for private cloud that was announced during vmworld 2014 in san francisco . in 2014 amax introduced a line of computing products the intel xeon processor e5 2600 v3 product family . 7 in 2014 amax announced at supercomputing 2014 sc14 show the clustermax gpu cluster and servmax gpu server platforms with nvidia tesla k80 gpu accelerator board . 8 in 2014 amax introduced the servmax open cloudserver ocs data center product based on the microsoft open cloud server version 2 specifications . 9 in 2015 amax announced at ipexpo 2015 show a deep learning engine from its deep learning product line . 10 in 2016 amax announced its configure to order cto service for security vendors . 11 at the ocp summit 2016 amax announced its smart dc data center manager software . 12 in mar 2016 amax announced its product lines were available with the intel xeon processor e5 2600 v4 family . 13 awards edit the security technology company mcafee awarded amax as their supplier of the year in 2010 . 14 amax s phat data apache hadoop cluster was awarded best new product or service of the year from the stevie awards in 2012 15 amax s phat data apache hadoop cluster was awarded with the innovated solution award from ingram micro s systems architechs in 2013 . 16 amax s cloudmax converged cloud infrastructure was awarded winner of the intel server innovation award from intel solutions summit 2014 . 17 amax s cloudmax converged cloud infrastructure was awarded winner of the best of vmworld 2014 for private cloud . 18 amax was granted the hyperscale converged infrastructure product supplier of excellence award for their cloudmax converged cloud infrastructure platform . 19 sensetime and amax co developed deep learning engine sensebox wins 1st place in two categories at the 6th annual imagenet large scale visual recognition challenge ilsvrc2015 . 20 references edit where to buy . nvidia.com . retrieved 2010 10 18 . amax moves from hpc clusters to cloud stacks half rack private cloud for smbs . theregister.co.uk . retrieved 2011 04 25 . the international business awards amax phat data . stevie awards inc. retrieved 2014 06 25 . windows storage server 2012 learn how to buy . . microsoft . retrieved 2012 09 11 . solution providers open compute project . . opencompute.org . retrieved 2013 11 14 . intel technology provider blog . . intel . retrieved 2014 06 24 . xeon grantley 12 new servers with intel s fastest chip yet . . crn . retrieved 2014 09 18 . amax to support new nvidia tesla k80 dual gpu accelerators in clustermax tm cluster and servmax tm server platforms . yahoo finance . retrieved 2014 11 17 . amax to introduce microsoft open cloudserver ocs v2 to hpc community . wallstreet online . retrieved 2014 11 18 . amax showcasing deep learning engine at ip expo 2015 . pr web . retrieved 2015 10 07 . configure to oder amax cto service gives security isvs a rapid deployment edge . pr newswire . retrieved 2016 02 29 . amax s smart dc data center manager breaks barrier of entry for ocp and real power savings . datacentercage . retrieved 2016 03 09 . amax cloud ocp storage deep learning and appliance platforms upgraded with powerful intel xeon processor e5 2600 v4 product family . pr newswire . retrieved 2016 03 31 . amax wins prestigious supplier of the year 2010 award from mcafee best new product or service of the year hardware . the stevie awards . retrieved 2012 09 07 . partner awards at system architechs fall 2013 . ingram micro . retrieved 2011 11 14 . amax wins intel s server innovation award for converged cloud infrastructure platform . . yahoo finance . retrieved 2014 06 23 . private cloud computing technologies 2014 winners the best of vmworld 2014 awards winners . techtarget . retrieved 2014 08 26 . amax wins the intel 2015 hyperscale converged infrastructure product supplier of excellence award . amax . retrieved 2016 01 08 . cuvideo wins the first place in two categories at ilsvrc2015 . openstackapi . retrieved 2016 01 13 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title amax information technologies & oldid 738082225 categories privately held companies based in californiacomputer companies of the united statescompanies based in fremont californiatechnology companies based in the san francisco bay areacomputer hardware companieshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from february 2016all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store 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