American Megatrends India: A One-Stop Shop for the Entire Storage Gamut Date:   Wednesday , October 08, 2014 As the hunger game begins for all-flash storage devices, what boils down this fast pace game is the cost of acquiring such devices. The existence of various flash storage providers in the industry cannot be denied but yes, their soaring prices limits them to big consumers while ignoring the ball game for the vast SME and startup space. Addressing this concern with the latest offering in the flash space called StorTrends 3500i is a storage specialist - American Megatrends India (AMI). This flagship product is a true enterprise-class storage solution that offers organizations a unified storage solution that is efficient and agile in business and empowers AMI to lead the market as a provider of hardware firmware and software solutions by developing products with unsurpassed compatibility and quality. AMI is uniquely positioned to provide all the fundamental components necessary to offer complete system performance, manageability and availability for today?s enterprise computing requirements. With over 50 patents approved for StorTrends and about 100 patents in the pipeline, the product is well known for the top of the line Advanced Snapshots with ROW technology, Data Tiering and ILM with support for SSD tiers, SSD caching (the only vendor offering both caching and tiering with SSDs), and WAN Optimization technology which significantly reduces the time taken for replication between locations without the need of having expensive WAN accelerator hardware. StorTrends comes in various models and form factors to cater the varying demands of businesses. With increased adoption of the newer platforms like full flash and hybrid storage array platforms, there is a need for intelligent handling of data between flash drivers and traditional spinning drivers to bring down the overall cost without degrading the performance. StorTrends IP SAN and NAS offerings enable storage admins by consolidating the storage providing back-end storage for applications and virtual machines, enabling VDI solutions by powering thousands of users, serving as backup nodes in D2D and D2D2T backup solutions and others. For instance, when a Delhi based petrochemical trading company?s need for data backup dawned, the company decided to commence scheduled regular backup of mission critical production data and business information. Coming to its aid, AMI devised a customized solution to suit the data replication and recovery needs while offering important network storage functionalities such as unified storage, business continuity, disaster recovery, storage efficiency and virtualization support without using any additional overhead. The solution led the company to meet business objectives and reduce serious risk of performance deterioration while accelerating its ROI two-fold. The Power-Packed Innovator Innovation is a part of the package of AMI and not an afterthought. Over 200 patents awarded globally on innovation engineering solutions is a testamentto the same. AMI works with channel partners, solutions providers and enterprises, and partners with all major OEMs for the newer technology initiatives. ?We are the global leader in embedded services, BIOS customization and porting and platform validation services. With our path breaking technology patents and innovations, we bring in the best of the class IP SAN/NAS Data storage solutions to the market,? says Sridharan Mani, Director & CEO, American Megatrends India. AMI has emerged as a one-stop shop for all System Components and Management Tools for Embedded Controllers to BIOS, Remote Management to Network Storage. Today, the company offers a portfolio of solutions and services in the fields of embedded, mobility, storage and asset management. Accentuating a soft yet robust work culture that paves way for new ideas, AMI?s R&D practices and testing services combined with their extensive experience of around three decades in the domain has steered them far ahead of the crowd. With the emergence of the cloud technology, the storage industry is making a paradigm shift towards the same. AMI foresees to incubate cloud-integrated solutions so as to offer better storage options to its customers. StorTrends is also moving to the cloud space by enabling users to push their archive data to the cloudseamlessly. This testifies that AMI?s track race of innovation is on and will upgrade itself with every new technology emergence. Panel: Headquarter: Norcross, GA Offices: India, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan Headcount:450 Verticals: Healthcare IT, Feedback Management, Infrastructure Asset Management, Mobility, Knowledge management, Storage and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Services: 1.Embedded Services ? OS Porting and Board Support Packages, Device Drivers Development, Middleware Development, Firmware Development 2.Application Engineering ? Cloud Based Applications, Enterprise Mobile Apps, Legacy to Cloud App Migration, Legacy to Mobile App Migration, Feedback Management System 3.Telematics ?Ambulance Tracking, Bin Tracking, Passenger Tracking, RFID Based Asset Tracking, Student Tracking, Vehicle Tracking 4.Healthcare Services ?Asset Management, Service Excellence Management, RFID Based Asset Tracking, Knowledge Management System, Mobile Healthcare, MedRx 5.Services ? Android Services, Validation Services Products& Technology: 1.StorTrends ? Network Storage 2.SnapVDI ? Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.AMI B.O.L.T ? Lifestyle Tracker 4.MegaRAC ? Backplane Controllers 5.MegaRAC ? Manageability Solutions 6.AptioV ? UEFI BIOS Firmware 7.AMIDiag ? UEFI Diagnostic Suite 8.DuOS ? Dual OS Environment 10.AIMS ? Asset Management Solution 11.AMI FMS ? Feedback Management System Achievements of the Company: 1.AMIBIOS powers more than half a billion desktops around the world 2.MegaRAID is World?s #1 PCI RAID HBA 3.Among the TOP 100 Most Trust Companies in India 4.MegaRAC is shipped by most Tier One OEMs 5.Awarded 200 patents globally Key Management: Sridharan Mani, CEO Sridharan started off his career as a System Analyst at NIIT and over the years, he fulfilled many roles. Holding 20+ years of IT-related senior leadership experienceranging from Software Engineer at Mahindra British Telecom, VP and COO at BOSS to, finally, become the Director and CEO at AMI.