SaaS Alliance Spawns a SaaS Appliance (April 2008)
Leading SaaS Vender and Leading VAR to deliver turn-key SaaS Appliance

Redwood City, California.  April 15, 2008.  ASA Computer and SaaSWizard Inc., are proud to announce a new partnership bringing you the ultimate SaaS Appliance: A one-stop solution designed to simplify and smooth out your SaaS deployment.

Through rigorous testing and tuning, our two companies created a series of application server appliance configurations certified by SaaSWizard to deliver both the performance and reliability you expect. The SaaSWizard platform enables solution providers to create custom SaaS applications in a matter of days, without writing a line of source code. With server support by ASA’s famously reliable hardware appliances, we’ve created a recipe for success that can’t be beat. 

“ASA has a reputation for delivering rock-solid appliances and backing them with excellent customer support,” said SaaSWizard Inc. CEO, Colin Earl.  “With our software platform pre-loaded and ready to go, customers  and partners can be assured that the appliance they purchase will scale to meet their computing needs.”

 “SaaSWizard is the software platform we’ve been looking for,” said Arvind Bhargava, CEO of ASA Computers Inc. “It provides customizability and ease-of-use to create specific solutions, while hiding the complexity. We will be using it to develop our own applications as well.”

If you would like to create your own SaaS Appliance please visit SaaSWizard at www.saaswizard.com

About SaaSWizard Inc
Based in the Silicon Valley with resellers worldwide, SaaSWizard, Inc. has attracted customers from industries with vastly different needs, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Over the past 8 years, SaaS specialists have developed all the core functionality needed by on-demand applications and integrated them into SaaSWizard, an application layer built on the J2EE platform. SaaSWizard, Inc. offers complete professional services -- implementation, customization, training, support, and server administration -- for its products, on either an hourly basis or as part of a fixed price guaranteed turnkey package. SaaSWizard, Inc. partners with large and small companies, including international distributors, VARs, system implementers and consultants, and ISPs.



Open Country Signs Reseller Agreement with ASA Computers (Sep 2006)

BELMONT, Calif. – September 06, 2006 – Open Country, the next-generation systems management software company, today announced it has entered into a reseller agreement with ASA Computers, a leading provider of Linux appliances. Under the terms of the agreement, ASA will offer Open Country’s systems management products integrated with its appliances to provide turn-key management solutions for Linux environments.

"ASA Computers is one of the premier providers of Linux systems in Silicon Valley and we are excited to combine our award winning provisioning and manageability capability with ASA’s ability to deliver and support appliances." said Michael Grove, President and CEO of Open Country. "Our customers are asking for simple turn-key appliance solution at an attractive price. The Open Country and ASA team delivers to that need."

"We’re very honored that Linux Journal has recognized Open Country’s OCM for this award", said Michael Grove, CEO of Open Country.

"ASA is pleased to partner with Open Country," said Arvind Bhargava, CEO ASA Computers. "Our joint solutions make it fast and easy for customers to manage their growing Linux infrastructures."

Open Country recently introduced the newest version of its award-winning flagship product OCM 3.1, the management suite that encourages repeatable best practices and supports the widest range of Linux distributions in the industry. OCM provides organizations with a simple, affordable solution, enabling administrators to effectively provision, manage, monitor, and maintain Linux-based servers, desktops, blades and appliances.

ASA Computers provides a full range of solutions, including appliances, 'ISP packages', servers for '.com' companies, computing environments for schools and research organizations, RAID and NAS set-ups, network installation, and help-desk support.

OCM Provison Appliance:
http://www.asaservers.com/config.asp?config_id=OCM%5FPRO
OCM Manager Appliance:
http://www.asaservers.com/config.asp?config_id=OCM%5FMANAGER

ASA introduces 1U Quad Opteron server with 3 hotswap hard drives (Jun 2006).

In June 2006, ASA starts selling the 1U quad dual core Opteron server (8way) with nVidia nForce Pro 2200 chipset. It supports for Intelligent Platform Management Interface v.2.0. The server uses PC3200 DDR ECC Registered RAM and can take upto 128 GB of memory. With this 1U server, customers again can rely on ASA for their IT solutions.

ASA Launched 1U and 2U Servers Using Intel Dempsey/Woodcrest CPUs (Jun 2006).

On June 1st, ASA has introduced the Dempsey servers for it's customers. The servers using Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5000P sequence (Dempsey processor - 1066 FSB) with 2MB L2 Integrated Advanced Transfer - Cache per core, 4MB L2 cache total, up to 3.73 GHz, 5030 CPU 2.67GHZ 4MB 667FSB. The Motherboard can support different FSB speeds, 667/1066/1333MHz. Hence, customers can upgrade to the up-coming Woodcrest CPUs from Intel (1333MHz FSB). The servers are using DDRII FB-DIMM memory. With this introduction, ASA ensures that its' customers have an access to the latest technology to improve their professional jobs. Woodcrest CPUs based servers are available for Eval immediately from ASA. Contact our sales department.

ASA introduces high End Gaming PCs:

ASA introduces a new line of high end Gaming PCs.

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (Mar 06)

A picture of the recently installed cluster- 640 Nodes based on Opteron 175, 2GB memory, 80GB SATA drives. The cluster is named as NEMO and will be used for detection of gravitational waves.

Caltech: (Feb 06)

California Institute of Technology recently completed the acquisition of  a state of the art Beowulf Cluster from ASA Computers. This cluster features Two - Dual Core Opteron 275 processors, 4GB memory, Four 250GB drives with 3ware 9500 four port RAID controller configured in RAID 5. Total nodes 255.In addition to the same ASA is also building another 77 units with  the same configuration. Caltech will use this cluster for their research in gravitational waves.
ASA sold a 420 Node Dual XEON Cluster to Caltech in 2004 and 110 Dual XEON nodes in 2005. 
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Fermi Labs: (Jan 06)

ASA Computers recently completed the installation of  a 288 node compute farm. The solution comprises of Dual Xeon 3.2GHz processors, 4GB of memory and two IDE drives. Fermilabs will use this compute farm for particle physics research in association with Massachussets Institute of Technology. The Installation was done on-site by the ASA Team.
ASA is a select Fermi Linux Server Vendor.
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Press Release Source: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Broadens Availability of Solaris(TM) OS on AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon-based Systems with 15 New OEM Partners
Thursday May 20, 9:10 am ET
Offers Customer Choice and Competitive Edge in Commodity Hardware Market with Enterprise-Ready Solaris OS for x86 Systems

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW- News) today announced the availability of the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS) on a variety of AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon-based systems with 15 new Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for a total of 20 x86 platform partners, including ASA Computers, Continuous Computing Corporation, Electronic Business Solutions, Flight System Consulting Inc., NatureTech, Pinnacle Data Systems (Amex: PNS- News), Portable One, PSSC Labs, Rave Computer Association, Inc., S-Terra Group, System Works Corporation, Think Computer Products and Tokyo Forex Financial.

To read full Press Release click :-

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040520/sfth051_1.html
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-05/sunflash.20040520.1.html