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Rackable Systems Achieves 100
percent Growth
Rackable Systems, a leading provider of servers for large-scale data center
deployments, announced explosive growth in 2003, with 45 new customer wins in
key vertical markets such as life sciences, government laboratories, oil and
gas exploration, Web serving and entertainment. New customers include Aechelon
Technology, Snapfish, Super Computer International Inc and Toshiba America
Electronic Components Inc. Rackable Systems exceeded its financial goals in
2003 and exited the year at a $100 million run rate.
Key highlights for 2003 include:
- Accelerated revenue growth and achieving the third straight year of
profitability in one of the fastest growing segments of the server
market
- Average sales of 98 servers per customer in 2003
- Launch of award-winning Distributed DC Power technology, a leading-edge
solution for heat and power management in the data center
- Expansion of the direct sales force throughout new geographies and
vertical
markets in the United States.
"Large enterprises are increasingly interested in cluster computing as the
number of cluster-aware applications steadily grows," said John Enck, vice
president of Gartner Inc. "The price/performance and availability
characteristics of a compute cluster often outshine a traditional large system
solution."
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computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid
computing umbrella. Gt04 -- a premiere enterprise Grid computing conference
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"As the leading online photo service with over seven million members, our
feature-rich website requires a data center that will continuously support our
large customer base simultaneously accessing our applications," said Bakty
Motiram, director of information technology for Snapfish. "Rackable Systems
was able to create an innovative, scalable data center design that delivers
reliability and manageability, as well as power efficiency and
ease-of-installation that lower our overall computing costs."
With a flexible build-to-order approach, Rackable Systems server solutions
have been shown to reduce Total Cost of Ownership by up to 85 percent over
competitors Dell, HP and IBM. The company's patented server designs in 1U, 2U
and 3U form factors feature key competitive differentiators in the areas of
density, serviceability, open architecture, remote management, thermal
efficiency and power distribution techniques. Rackable Systems holds multiple
patents and successfully defended them in 2003, winning injunctions against
Einux, HPC and King Star.
With the launch of its Distributed DC Power technology in late 2003,
Rackable
Systems continued to build on its reputation as one of the industry's leading
innovators. By using Distributed DC-powered servers, data centers can achieve
up to 30 percent greater server reliability and up to 40 percent reduction in
heat over competitors' AC-based solutions -- generating significant long-term
savings in power, HVAC and maintenance costs. Rackable Systems' design
improvements demonstrate the company's ongoing commitment to providing
innovative and effective solutions to its growing roster of customers who
demand superior cluster computing performance and value.
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