September 13, 2012
Sept. 13 -- AMAX, a leading innovator of high performance computing (HPC), dynamic enterprise IT, and custom appliance manufacturing solutions, has announced that their Zettaset-powered PHAT-Data (Peta-scale Hadoop Analytics Technology) Hadoop Platform is the winner of a GOLD Stevie Award in the Best New Product or Service of the Year – Hardware category in the 9th Annual International Business Awards.
The International Business Awards are the world’s premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit, and non-profit, large, and small. The 2012 IBAs received entries from more than 50 nations and territories.
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners at a gala awards banquet at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Seoul, South Korea on 15 October.
“Zettaset is pleased that Orchestrator™, our powerful Hadoop installation and management application, is playing a key role in AMAX’s award-winning Big Data reference architecture,” said Jim Vogt, CEO of Zettaset. “Orchestrator’s ability to manage any Hadoop distribution means that PHAT-Data has the flexibility to fit into any enterprise environment and accelerate time to value.”
“PHAT-Data is AMAX’s answer to the industry’s need for a high-performance Hadoop solution running on optimized hardware, with simplified deployment in mind,” said Jean Shih, President, AMAX. “Hadoop is a necessary and powerful tool for business intelligence, and we are honored that PHAT-Data has been recognized for leading the charge as a truly innovative, game-changing product.”
The AMAX PHAT-Data line of products offers a highly scalable, tunable, and easy to deploy platform bundled with Zettaset Orchestrator and Apache Hadoop to solve Big Data acquisition, storage and analysis problems, and has been thoroughly tested and certified production-ready to be deployed on any scale. PHAT-Data is the ONLY open-architecture designed solution that also maintains 100% compatibility with Java-based MapReduce applications with full open standards support right out of the box.
Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 300 executives worldwide who participated in the judging process this year.
About Zettaset
Zettaset is an enterprise software company that delivers an enterprise-ready and hardened Hadoop solution designed for organizations that need a more automated, efficient, and reliable way to structure and manage Big Data. Zettaset Orchestrator™ is scalable, secure, and resilient, and can be used to manage any Apache-based Hadoop distribution. Unlike other Big Data approaches which are costly and require significant development time and resources to implement, Orchestrator is easy to deploy, enabling faster time to value while dramatically lowering total cost of ownership by eliminating dependencies on professional services.
For more information, visit www.zettaset.com
About AMAX
Founded in 1979, AMAX is a trusted leader in Custom Cluster, Server and Storage Solutions in North America. Headquartered in Fremont, California, AMAX also operates several branch offices throughout North America and multiple locations in China servicing the APAC region. More info at www.amax.com
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The International Business Awards, The American Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com
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Source: AMAX
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