AMAX Information Technologies


AMAX Engineering Corporation is a privately held technology company based in Fremont, California. Founded in 1979, AMAX specializes in application-tailored Cloud, Data Center, Deep Learning, open architecture platforms, HPC and OEM solutions.

Location and facilities

AMAX was founded in 1979, in Fremont, California, part of the Silicon Valley in the United States. The company has offices in California USA, Texas USA, Suzhou China, Shanghai China, and Shannon, Ireland.

Services

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.

Products

2016
AMAX announced its product lines were upgraded with the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 V4 family.
AMAX launched DC Data Center Manager, the premier out-of-band DCIM solution for high-efficiency data center.
AMAX joined Intel Technology Provider Program as HPC Data Center Specialist.
AMAX released its GPU Solutions and HPC Clusters, integrated with NVIDIA® Tesla P100 GPU accelerator for PCIe, powered by the new NVIDIA® Pascal architecture.
AMAX announced its configure-to-order service for security ISVs and startups.
2015
AMAX announced at IP EXPO 2015 show a deskside Deep Learning Engine from its Deep Learning product line.
2014
AMAX introduced the ServMax Open CloudServer data center product based on the Microsoft Open Cloud Server version 2 specifications.
AMAX announced at Supercomputing 2014 show the ClusterMaxTM GPU cluster and ServMax GPU server platforms with NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU accelerator board.
AMAX introduced a line of computing products the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 V3 product family.
AMAX announced the CloudMaxTM converged infrastructure product for data centers, based on OpenStack, featuring computing, networking and storage components. CloudMaxTM was awarded the Intel Server Innovation Award at the Intel Solution Summit 2014, and Best of VMworld 2014 for Private Cloud at VMworld 2014.
2013
AMAX became a provider for the Open Compute Project initiated by Facebook.
2012
AMAX introduced a line of network-attached storage 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.
AMAX announced a cluster product based on Apache Hadoop named the PHAT-Data, and was awarded gold as the Best New Product of the Year in Hardware from the Stevie Awards. 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.
2011
AMAX announced the AMAX CloudMax private cloud appliance developed for businesses.
2008
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. Other servers and cluster platforms available are configured with the Nvidia Tesla M2075/M2090/K10/K20/K40.

Awards