American Megatrends in Partnership With Fujitsu Technology Solutions

American
Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) announces a technical partnership with Fujitsu Technology Solutions (FTS) to
jointly promote AMI’s MegaRAC XMS Manageability Framework on industrial PC
systems from FTS.

AMI brings its expertise in reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS)
and out-of-band manageability to FTS, the provider of IT infrastructure
products in Europe and a player in the expanding field of embedded
systems design.

The official launch of this partnership
took place at Embedded World 2013 in Nuremberg, Germany, on February 26, 2013. AMI showcased some of the solutions from FTS that will
incorporate manageability with MegaRAC XMS into their systems.

MegaRAC XMS provides customizable,
360 degree management for collaborative management of network attached devices
from hardware to application level. Its ‘single pane of glass’
centralized remote manageability of system hardware health, using technologies
like AMT and DASH, along with asset management and host provisioning make
MegaRAC XMS the solution for enterprise device management. The
extendible plug-in architecture of XMS can be used to manage IPMI devices, OSs,
Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) and DMTF’s Desktop and mobile
Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) devices – and more. The XMS base
platform provides the overall management infrastructure for the plug-ins, while
each plugin provides targeted manageability features to meet individual needs.
MegaRAC XMS offers a growing list of off-the-shelf plugins for management of
the OS, Power, IPMI Devices, Hyper-V and VMware ESX VMs and beyond, for network enterprise management.

As a manageability platform,
MegaRAC XMS empowers systems like those from FTS that incorporate AMT and DASH manageability features to realize to the potential of
these management technologies. Embedded systems built on industrial mainboards
from FTS feature the best chipsets and processors to provide
quality and performance for demanding applications. FTS embedded
products are found around the world in a wide variety of applications from
medical engineering, point-of-sale (POS) and kiosk systems to digital signage
installations. They offer the reliability of an industrial mainboard at a cost
not much higher than that of a desktop system.

Peter Hoser, director OEM Sales
Systemboards from FTS, commented: "Our
experience as a leader in embedded systems has shown us that the next
generation of embedded systems has a great need for advanced manageability. The
capability to remotely manage power and device status, virtualization, OS
updates and the like becomes critical as these systems are installed in areas
where high traffic or remoteness prevent onsite management. Moreover,
increasing demand for power management and operational efficiency has driven us
to seek a solid management solution for our industrial customers, and
partnering with AMI for their MegaRAC XMS management framework for these
systems was a solid choice."

In the words of Subramonian Shankar, AMI’s CEO and president: "We are pleased to commence this technical partnership with a true
industry leader in FTS. From our perspective, the real benefit of this
collaboration is how MegaRAC XMS enables FTS systems to realize to the true
value of management technologies like DASH and AMT – something the market has
lacked until now. We have every expectation that this will be a ‘win-win’
relationship, both for us and the market, which will benefit from
ever-affordable and reliable systems from FTS supported with the most powerful
and flexible management protocol from AMI."