Accton Technology Corporation and Midfin Systems to jointly develop Unified Compute Infrastructure solution for modern datacenters.
Turnkey high-performance datacenter infrastructure will be powered by Accton’s hardware and Midfin Systems’ software
Hsinchu, Taiwan and Seattle, WA, April 13, 2015 – Accton Technology Corporation, a global leader in IP networking and communication solutions from Taiwan, and Midfin Systems from Seattle have entered into an agreement to jointly develop Unified Compute Infrastructure (UCI) for enterprise and service provider datacenters. The jointly developed turnkey solution will be powered by decades of system experience from Accton and Midfin Systems’ expertise in virtualization and distributed datacenters.
“Accton is excited to partner with Midfin Systems. Not only do they have deep expertise and experience with modern datacenters, but we are also amazed to see how well they have executed on their vision. Accton and Midfin Systems have already been working together, and we are pleased to take the relationship further through this initiative. We are confident that the UCI solution built by combining our expertise will increase agility and performance of application workloads while eliminating complexity and lowering the overall TCO (total cost of ownership) for modern datacenters.” CC Lee, the Sales VP and System Architecture Officer of Accton said about the partnership.
“Midfin Systems is excited to take the relationship with Accton to the next level. We are laser-focused on customer value-proposition and building strong strategic partnerships with like-minded companies. We started working with Accton, as our partner, on our flagship distributed fabric controller product, which is now available. We have been very impressed with Accton’s system expertise and their commitment to the partnership. Together, I strongly believe we can bring about a disruptive solution to the market that packs value for our customers in a turnkey form-factor.” Said Suyash Sinha, Founder & CEO of Midfin Systems.
Product Availability
The companies will work together to bring the UCI solution to market by Q3 2015. Accton’s subsidiary Edgecore Networks will provide this solution into the market together with Midfin Systems.
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About Accton Technology Corporation
Accton Technology is a global premier provider of networking and communications solutions for top tier networking, computer, and telecommunications customers. Leveraging its advanced hardware engineering, software and system design capability, Accton collaborates with its strategic partners to architect, develop and manufacture innovative, leading-edge networking and computing products. Accton’s evolving core technology and its highly-qualified global workforce enables it to deliver superior solutions that are affordable and robust. Additional information can be found at www.accton.com.
About Midfin System
Midfin Systems is the provider of world’s first Plug n Play Unified Compute Infrastructure solution that works with commodity x86 servers. The solution is based on Midfin Systems’ technology called eFabric™ – a Software-Defined Fabric Controller (SDFC). UCI transforms bare-metal servers across one or more datacenters into a simple, unified, high-performance cloud-scale infrastructure within minutes greatly increasing agility of workload deployments while lowering total cost of ownership for enterprise and service providers.
Midfin Systems was founded by veterans with decades of experience building technologies that power some of the largest datacenters on the planet. Additional information can be found at www.midfinsystems.com.
Media Contacts
Accton Technology Corporation
U.S.: Youngcor
Sales Director
youngcor@accton.com
Taiwan: CC Lee
Sales VP and System Architecture Officer
cclee@accton.com
Midfin Systems Inc
U.S.: Suyash Sinha
Founder & CEO
[email protected]
