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ZT Systems is proud to sponsor the 8th Annual Benefit Breakfast for the Row to the Future Initiative

The Pocock Foundation’s Row to the Future initiative helps connect youth to rowing, empowering them to make healthy lifestyle choices. Launched in 2010, RttF is the largest youth rowing collaborative in the country. This is the second year in which ZT Systems is sponsoring the Benefit Breakfast.

“ZT Systems is committed to supporting outreach in the communities where we live and work,” said Brent Miller, Vice President of Marketing & Business Planning for ZT Systems. “In partnership with our customers, ZT strives to empower people and communities through cloud computing. In the same way, we’re proud to partner with the Row to the Future foundation in support of this initiative that empowers students to reach their full potential.”

Through Row to the Future’s initiative, alongside community partners, the Pocock Foundation inspires youth to become healthy, active members of their communities through rowing. The 2016 Row to the Future Breakfast honored the successes of the past year, which have been pivotal in bringing the conversation about youth rowing to a national platform. In 2015, proceeds from this event helped fund 43 rowing scholarships for low-income youth in Seattle and Renton.

About Row to the Future: Row to the Future is the youth development initiative of the George Pocock Rowing Foundation. We are introducing students to indoor rowing through P.E. classes in Seattle Public Schools as part of Erg Ed, our school-based program. Erg Ed provides opportunities beyond the classroom through camps, field trips and indoor-rowing competitions. We also provide support for on-the-water rowing as part of Rainier Valley Rowing (RVR), which helps students overcome barriers to participation in traditional junior rowing programs such as cost, swimming ability and transportation.

Paris, France — October 30, 2014 — ZT Systems, a leading provider of purpose-built solutions for hyperscale compute and storage customers, today showcased server blades based on the Microsoft Open CloudServer (OCS) specification version 2 at the Open Compute EU Summit. Delivering energy-efficient performance with outstanding cost effectiveness, OCS solutions from ZT include blades, enclosures and racks.

Working closely with Microsoft engineers, ZT Systems developed solutions in compliance with Open CloudServer specification v2 mechanical, thermal, and enclosure management specifications. For reduced total cost of ownership in hyperscale environments, ZT enhanced the solution’s enclosure by implementing quick-release latches and thumbscrews throughout for easy, tool-less serviceability. ZT solutions based on this specification can enable substantial cost savings, power efficiency gains, and reductions in deployment and service times relative to traditional servers.

“ZT Systems is pleased to work with Microsoft to help grow the partner ecosystem around Open CloudServer specification v2,” said Brent Miller, ZT Systems Vice President of Business Planning and Marketing. “Our hyperscale customers are seeking solutions that provide cost effectiveness, energy efficiency and ease of serviceability. We feel this platform presents an attractive new option to improve on these metrics in the largest datacenters.”

As an Open Compute Gold member, ZT Systems shares Microsoft’s commitment to fostering more efficient datacenters and the adoption of cloud computing.

“The Open CloudServer specification v2 includes significant new performance enhancements,” said Kushagra Vaid, General Manager of Server Engineering at Microsoft. “ZT Systems has the ability to deliver OCS-based solutions that drive efficiency in customer data centers through design enhancement, supply chain expertise and consistent execution.”

ZT Systems solutions for the Microsoft Open CloudServer (OCS) specification v2 can be seen at the Open Compute EU Summit in Microsoft’s booth #P1.

About ZT Systems:
ZT solutions begin with customer engagement to establish requirements, leveraging extensive experience with hyperscale workloads and supply chain considerations. Application-tailored compute and storage solutions are developed through an innovative approach that combines standard parts with custom-designed elements as appropriate. To ensure consistent quality, ZT’s controlled manufacturing process includes shop floor controls, change management, BOM controls, and component-level tracking for all systems.

For optimal ease of deployment, fully integrated and tested rack-level solutions can be shipped worldwide with an industry-leading delivery SLA. ZT’s commitment to operational excellence is demonstrated by a strong track record of on-time delivery. Global service, support, and RMA capabilities keep our clients’ server fleets running dependably.

Backed by USA-based manufacturing and 20 years of experience, ZT Systems serves data center operators from the largest cloud providers and internet infrastructure companies to top research universities and government entities.

ZT Systems Announces Server Solutions for Leading-Edge Hyperscale Performance and Efficiency featuring the Latest Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 v3 Product Family

Secaucus, NJ — September 8, 2014 — ZT Systems, a leading provider of purpose-built compute and storage solutions for hyperscale data center customers, today announced the availability of server solutions featuring the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 product family.

These platforms leverage the leading edge performance and efficiency of the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family within server solutions featuring ZT Systems’ signature custom design, manufacturing, integration, and delivery capabilities. Through early design collaboration with leading cloud and internet infrastructure providers, ZT has developed valuable experience and a unique perspective on architecting, building, and deploying solutions featuring this technology into hyperscale environments.

“ZT Systems platforms featuring these new processors have made an extremely positive impression on customers during prelaunch development and testing,” said Casey Cerretani, ZT Systems Chief Technology Officer. “Energy efficiency and performance metrics for our platforms based on the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product family are greatly improved relative to previous generation solutions. For customers operating the largest server fleets, workload-tailored ZT Systems platforms featuring these new processors can increase application performance while driving down operational cost through enhanced energy efficiency and density.”

With up to 18 cores per socket and enhanced power management features, ZT solutions equipped with these processors are attractive options for hyperscale customers looking for the best performance per watt, per dollar.

“The new Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 product family is designed to deliver the best combination of performance, built-in capabilities, and cost-effectiveness,” said Eoin McConnell, Xeon E5 family product line director, Data Center Group. “Intel values the ability of ZT Systems to create purpose-built solutions that leverage these new Xeon processors to meet the unique needs of some of the largest and most demanding cloud and internet infrastructure providers.”

ZT Systems is a proven design, manufacturing, and logistics partner for customers in the hyperscale compute space. As the winner of the Intel Breakaway Award, ZT has been recognized by Intel for dramatic growth in this area. ZT leverages a strong working relationship with Intel to bring customers the latest server technology in platforms custom engineered to meet their requirements.

ZT solutions begin with close, confidential customer engagement to establish requirements, leveraging our extensive experience with hyperscale workloads and supply chain considerations. Application-tailored server and storage solutions are developed through an innovative approach that combines industry-standard parts with custom-designed elements as appropriate. To ensure consistent quality, ZT’s controlled manufacturing process includes shop floor controls, change management, BOM controls, and component-level tracking for all systems.

For optimal ease of deployment, fully integrated and tested rack-level solutions can be shipped worldwide with an industry-leading delivery SLA. ZT’s commitment to operational excellence is demonstrated by a strong track record of on-time delivery. Global service, support, and RMA capabilities keep our clients’ server fleets running dependably.

About ZT Systems: Backed by USA-based manufacturing and 20 years of experience, ZT Systems serves data center operators from the largest cloud providers and internet infrastructure companies to top research universities and government entities.

ZT Systems Announces Precision-Fit Data Center Server Solutions
based on AMD Opteron™ 6300 Series Processors

Secaucus, NJ — November 5, 2012 —ZT Systems, a leading provider of complete server and rack-level compute solutions for large and hyperscale data centers, today announced solutions featuring the powerful new AMD Opteron™ 6300 Series processors based on the Piledriver core architecture. Joined with ZT’s signature custom engineering, integration and delivery capabilities, these platforms form the basis for precision-fit solutions to the unique technical and business requirements of individual data center customers.

“ZT Systems is pleased to work with AMD in announcing customized platforms featuring Opteron 6300 series processors,” said Brent Miller, ZT Systems Vice President of Marketing and Business Planning. “ZT solutions powered by these new processors can help our customers benefit from improved server performance and efficiency, while extending platform lifecycles for greater overall cost effectiveness. ZT Systems’ precision-fit design approach coupled with this latest generation of AMD processors provides an attractive option for large data center customers seeking an optimal balance of performance, scalability and cost.”

ZT server solutions featuring Opteron 6300 Series processors offer up to 37 percent higher performance per watt than comparable prior generation solutions, which means data centers running robust large-scale software systems will be able to enjoy high performance combined with low total cost of ownership (TCO). Leveraging ZT servers featuring Opteron 6300 Series processors, with up to 16 cores and 3.5 GHz base frequency, customers can optimize data center floor space through consolidation and tackle the most processor-intensive server workloads.

ZT solutions begin with close, confidential customer engagement to establish application requirements and data center constraints. Server platforms are designed using industry-standard parts, combined where necessary with custom elements and innovative engineering approaches. To ensure high levels of consistent quality, ZT’s controlled manufacturing process includes shop floor control, change management, BOM control and component level tracking for all systems.

For optimal ease of deployment, servers can be pre-racked and cabled, and full racks can be shipped worldwide with an industry-leading delivery SLA. ZT’s commitment to operational excellence is demonstrated by a strong track record of on-time delivery, and global service, support and RMA capabilities keep server fleets running dependably.

About ZT Systems: Backed by USA-based manufacturing and over 18 years’ experience, ZT Systems serves data center operators from the largest internet infrastructure companies to top research universities and government entities.

ZT Systems Announces “Vanity-Free” Open Compute Server
Solution Initiative at Open Compute Summit 2012

San Antonio, TX — May 2, 2012 — ZT Systems, a gold sponsor of the Open Compute Summit and leading provider of complete server and rack-level hardware solutions optimized for hyperscale data centers, today announced an initiative to develop vanity-free, cost-effective servers in conjunction with the Open Compute Project (OCP.) ZT will combine OCP designs with unique customization capabilities to deliver a new range of server solutions that are “precision-fit” to the technical and business requirements of individual large data centers.

“As an active participant in the Open Compute Project working group, ZT Systems contributes significant expertise in low power and efficiency-optimized custom server platform design,” said Casey Cerretani, ZT Systems Chief Technology Officer. “With the explosive growth of cloud computing, we’ve seen a range of innovations around performance and energy efficiency in server and data center design. This new initiative and a strengthening partnership with OCP enable ZT to leverage a powerful new set of tools for providing efficient server solutions to our customers.”

Originally an initiative launched by Facebook, the Open Compute Project has evolved into a collaborative dialogue between large server customers and hardware providers to develop the most efficient computing infrastructure possible. Forthcoming ZT Systems solutions leveraging the latest open compute design concepts can improve server and storage cost effectiveness, ease of maintenance and energy efficiency for volume data center customers.

ZT solutions begin with close customer engagement to establish application requirements and data center constraints. Server platforms are designed using industry-standard parts, combined where necessary with custom elements and innovative engineering approaches. To ensure high levels of consistent quality, ZT’s controlled manufacturing process includes shop floor control, change management, BOM control and component level tracking for all systems.

For optimal ease of deployment, servers can be pre-racked and cabled, and full racks can be shipped worldwide with an industry-leading delivery SLA. ZT’s commitment to operational excellence is demonstrated by a strong track record of on-time delivery, and global service, support and RMA capabilities keep server fleets running dependably.

About ZT Systems: Backed by USA-based manufacturing and over 17 years’ experience, ZT Systems serves data center operators from the largest internet infrastructure companies to top research universities and government entities.

ZT Systems Announces Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 Based
Server Solutions for Precision-Fit Data Centers

Secaucus, NJ — March 6, 2012 — ZT Systems, a leading provider of customized server hardware solutions, today announced a range of new server platforms featuring the powerful Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family. Joined with ZT’s custom design, integration and delivery capabilities, these platforms form the basis for precision-fit solutions to the unique technical and business requirements of individual large data centers.

“More and more customers with scale-out workloads like cloud computing and web analytics are discovering the benefits of server platform customization,” said Casey Cerretani, ZT Systems Chief Technology Officer. “From board level design to custom enclosure options, our clients demand that every possible optimization has been made to ensure the best performance within their data center design and cost parameters. Our experience with large deployments of the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5 product family has demonstrated that custom ZT servers featuring this new technology can cost-effectively maximize application performance and data center efficiency.”

ZT Systems has worked closely with hyperscale cloud and supercomputer customers on early implementation of custom platforms featuring this new generation of processors, which deliver up to 80% more performance than previous-generation processors, plus increased I/O capacity and latency reduction of up to 30%. Customers can benefit from ZT’s unique experience designing, building and deploying platforms featuring this technology into real-world data center environments. Standard 1U and 2U server dual processor rackmount server platforms based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 product family are available today, and serve as starting points for customization to meet specific customer needs.

“The new Intel® Xeon® processor E5 product family is designed to address the key data center challenges with more performance, efficiency and innovative I/O technologies,” said CJ Bruno, VP, GM Intel Americas. “With a growing number of customers, ZT has the proven ability to combine the benefits of our new Xeon processors with extensive platform customization to produce solutions optimized for the specific requirements of large server deployments.”

ZT solutions begin with close, confidential customer engagement to establish application requirements and data center constraints. Server platforms are designed using industry-standard parts, combined where necessary with custom elements and innovative engineering approaches. To ensure high levels of consistent quality, ZT’s controlled manufacturing process includes shop floor control, change management, BOM control and component level tracking for all systems. For optimal ease of deployment, servers can be pre-racked and cabled, and full racks can be shipped worldwide with an industry-leading 15-day delivery SLA. ZT’s commitment to operational excellence is demonstrated by a strong track record of on-time delivery, and global service, support and RMA capabilities keep server fleets running dependably.

About ZT Systems: Backed by USA-based manufacturing and over 17 years’ experience, ZT Systems serves data center operators from the largest internet infrastructure companies to top research universities and government entities.

ZT Systems Announces Precision-Fit Server Solutions Powered by New AMD Opteron™ 6200 and 4200 Series Processors

Secaucus, NJ — Nov. 14, 2011 — ZT Systems, a leading provider of customized server solutions for large-scale data centers, today announced solutions featuring the powerful new AMD (NYSE: AMD) Opteron™ 6200 and 4200 Series processors. Both processors are based on AMD’s widely anticipated “Bulldozer” microarchitecture, and represent an attractive new solution for data center customers who demand energy-efficient, cost-effective server computing performance.

Utilizing ZT Systems 2210Ra servers featuring AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors, with up to 16 cores, customers can optimize data center floor space through consolidation and tackle the most processor-intensive server workloads. Featuring AMD Opteron 4200 Series processors, ZT Systems 1257Ra servers are ideal for cloud computing and other applications where energy efficiency and value are at a premium. Both platforms leverage ZT’s custom engineering, integration and global delivery capabilities to produce precision-fit solutions for data center customers ranging from small and medium enterprises to large-scale cloud computing providers.

“ZT Systems is pleased to join AMD in enabling customers with server solutions based on these powerful new processors,” said Travis Scott, ZT Systems Director of Marketing. “With the AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors’ high core count, the ZT Systems 2210Ra platform is an outstanding solution for customers running demanding analytics applications. The AMD Opteron 4200 Series-powered ZT Systems 1257Ra is an attractive option for cloud computing customers, and builds on ZT’s experience designing some of the world’s most energy-efficient servers. Each platform is an important addition to ZT’s industry-leading capabilities for customizing server solutions to fit the unique requirements of individual data centers.”

“ZT Systems servers featuring the AMD Opteron 6200 and 4200 Series processors enable greater throughput, exceptional value and readiness to scale than previous generations,” said John Fruehe, director of Server Product Marketing, AMD. “With ZT rapidly bringing customized solutions featuring this new technology to market, we look forward to enabling data center customers to help reach new levels of performance and energy efficiency.”

ZT solutions begin with close customer engagement to establish application requirements and data center constraints. Server platforms are designed using industry-standard parts, combined where necessary with custom elements and innovative engineering approaches. To ensure high levels of consistent quality, ZT’s controlled manufacturing process includes shop floor control, change management, BOM control and component level tracking for all systems. For optimal ease of deployment, servers can be pre-racked and cabled, and full racks can be shipped worldwide with an industry-leading 21-day delivery SLA. ZT’s commitment to operational excellence is demonstrated by a strong track record of on-time delivery, and a global service, support and RMA capability keeps server fleets running dependably.