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December 9, 2019:NORCROSS, GEORGIA: AMI®, a global leader in powering, managing, and securing the world's mission-critical connected infrastructure through its BIOS, BMC and security solutions, is pleased to be selected to join the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST®) National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership (NCEP) at the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE).The NCCoE is a collaborative hub where industry organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions work together to address businesses' most pressing cybersecurity issues. This public-private partnership enables the creation of practical cybersecurity solutions for specific industries, as well as for broad, cross-sector technology challenges.

Through consortia under Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), the NCCoE applies standards and best practices to develop modular, easily adaptable example cybersecurity solutions using commercially available technology. The NCCoE documents these example solutions in the NIST Special Publication 1800 series, which maps capabilities to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and details the steps needed for another entity to recreate the example solution.As part of its engagement with NCCoE, a team of security firmware engineers from AMI will pay a visit to the NIST Security Research Lab. There, the AMI team will integrate AMI firmware into real-world, end-to-end solutions to be tested for heuristic and predictive failure analysis, encryption algorithms, ethical hacking and related security tests.

Once complete, the test results will be available through the NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide (Special Publication 1800 series).' Firmware security starts early in the development process of new technology.

AMI applies its firmware security best practices in tandem with the leading silicon and operating system providers such as Intel and Microsoft. This process requires not only the efforts of the silicon and firmware providers, but also other key vendors in the system manufacturers' supply chain. With additional collaboration across the supply chain, the development process can be tuned to improve the overall security of the industry,' said Sanjoy Maity, Chief Executive Officer of AMI.' AMI believes that implementing the latest cybersecurity standards into our product offerings is paramount to the general security of the technology industry, especially hyperscale cloud providers,' he added.

'Our firmware products provide critical boot and management capabilities to everything from data center servers to the laptops and desktops found in nearly every household, school, and government facility. Therefore, we see this engagement with the NIST Cybersecurity Lab as a key initiative to harden and strengthen AMI firmware and development processes, which will help accelerate the adoption of standards-based, advanced security technologies and benefit computer users across all levels of society.' NIST® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. November 12, 2019:NORCROSS, GEORGIA: AMI, a global leader in BIOS and BMC firmware, remote manageability and security tools and utilities, is pleased to announce its attendance at the upcoming Supercomputing 2019 Exhibition in Denver, Colorado from November 18 – 21, 2019 as a guest of ASRock Rack Inc., a key partner of AMI.Supercomputing 2019 (SC19) is the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis.

It is designed to share best practices in a wide range of areas including architectures and networks, clouds and distributed computing, storage, system software and more, along with state of the practice in large-scale deployment and integration.At SC19, AMI will be a guest of its valued partner ASRock Rack Inc. In Booth #971, where the two companies will jointly demonstrate their latest innovations in Server SAN manageability via the NVMe over Ethernet Fabric (NVMeoF) protocol. There, MegaRAC® FPX2.0™ NVMEoF Management Firmware and the AMI Composer™ Hyperscale Management Ecosystem from AMI will run on the ASRock Rack Inc.

September 27, 2019:NORCROSS, GEORGIA - AMI, a global leader in BIOS, BMC and remote management tools and utilities, is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of the fifth annual Aptio® V and MegaRAC® European Summit in Munich, Germany earlier this week.The main purpose of the two-day Aptio V and MegaRAC European Summit is to increase technological value provided to AMI’s customers and partners. Attendees experience in-depth, engaging and informative seminars on the latest innovations in Aptio V UEFI Firmware and MegaRAC BMC Remote Management Firmware, as well as to dive into the supplementary tools and features that complement these products.

August 30, 2019:NORCROSS, GEORGIA - AMI, a global leader in BIOS, BMC and remote management tools and utilities, is pleased to announce that it has recently joined the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) as an Executive Member.PICMG is a nonprofit consortium of over 140 companies and organizations that collaboratively develop open standards for high-performance telecommunications, military, industrial, and general-purpose embedded computing applications. Equipment built to PICMG standards is used worldwide and its standards are generally available for use without restriction. Key standards families developed by PICMG include CompactPCI®, AdvancedTCA®, MicroTCA®, AdvancedMC®, CompactPCI® Serial, COM Express®, SHB Express®, and HPM (Hardware Platform Management).COM Express is a key specification defined within PICMG, which defines Small Form Factor (SFF) and Computer on Module (COM) single board computers with a wide range of commercial applications. PICMG is working on upcoming versions of the specification with higher levels of manageability, including the addition of a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) as a part of the design. In its role as an Executive Member, AMI will contribute its expertise in BMC firmware and remote management to help expand the manageability aspects of the COM Express specification.“AMI is delighted to announce our participation in PICMG as an Executive Member. We look forward to contributing our knowledge, support and experience to help define and propagate the next generation of standards and specifications for embedded and modular computing,” said Sanjoy Maity, CEO of AMI.For more information on AMI’ participation in PICMG, please contact AMI at 1-800-828-9264 / +1-770- 246-8600 or visitCompactPCI®, AdvancedTCA®, MicroTCA®, AdvancedMC®, CompactPCI® Serial, COM Express® and SHB Express® are registered trademarks of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group in the US and other countries.

Number of employees1000 worldwideWebsiteAmerican Megatrends ( AMI), formerly American Megatrends, Inc., is an international and company, specializing in hardware. The company was founded in 1985 by Pat Sarma and Subramonian Shankar. It is headquartered in Building 200 at 5555 Oakbrook Parkway in, near the city of, and in the.The company started as a manufacturer of complete, positioning itself in the high-end segment. Its first customer was PCs Ltd, later known as Computers, making one of the first designs.

As hardware activity moved progressively to -based, AMI continued to develop BIOS firmware for major motherboard manufacturers. The company produced BIOS software for motherboards (1986), server motherboards (1992), storage controllers (1995) and remote-management cards (1998).In 1993 AMI produced MegaRAID, a storage.

AMI sold its RAID-division assets to in 2001.As of 2019, AMI continued to focus on and business and technology. Its product line includes AMIBIOS (a ), Aptio (a successor to AMIBIOS8 based on the standard), diagnostic software, AMI EC ( firmware), MG-Series (for, and storage devices), driver/firmware development, and MegaRAC SP-X ( firmware). This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and.Find sources: – ( October 2011) American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) was founded in 1985 by Subramonian Shankar and Pat Sarma with funds from a previous consulting venture, Access Methods Inc. Access Methods was a company run by Pat Sarma and his partner.

After Access Methods successfully launched the AMIBIOS, there were legal issues among the owners of the company, resulting in Sarma buying out his partners. Access Methods still owned the rights to the AMIBIOS. Sarma had already started a company called Quintessential Consultants Inc. (QCI), and later set up an equal partnership with Shankar.By this time the AMIBIOS had become established and there was a need to keep the initials AMI. The partners renamed QCI as American Megatrends Inc., with the same initials as Access Methods Inc.; the renamed company then purchased AMIBIOS from Access Methods.

Shankar became the president and Sarma the executive vice-president of this company. This partnership continued until 2001, when LSI Logic purchased the RAID Division of American Megatrends; American Megatrends then purchased all shares of the company owned by Sarma, making Shankar the majority owner. A chip containing an old version AMIBIOS image, pulled from an ECS motherboardAmerican Megatrends has a strict OEM business model for AMIBIOS: it sells source code to motherboard manufacturers or customizes AMIBIOS for each OEM individually, whichever business model they require.

AMI does not sell to end users, and itself produces no end-user documentation or technical support for its BIOS firmware, leaving that to licensees. However, the company published two books on its BIOS in 1993 and 1994, (listed in ), written by its engineers.During powerup, the BIOS firmware displays an ID string in the lower-left-hand corner of the screen. This ID string comprises various pieces of information about the firmware, including when it was compiled, what configuration options were selected, the OEM license code, and the targeted chipset and motherboard. There are 3 ID string formats, the first for older AMIBIOS, and the second and third for the newer AMI Hi-Flex ('high flexibility') BIOS. These latter are displayed when the Insert key is pressed during power-on self-test.The original AMI BIOS did not encrypt the machine startup password, which it stored in non-volatile RAM. Therefore, any utility capable of reading a PC's NVRAM was able to read and to alter the password. The AMI WinBIOS encrypts the stored password, using a simple.By pressing the during power-on self-test when a prompt is displayed, the BIOS setup utility program is invoked.

Some earlier AMIBIOS versions also included a cut-down version of the AMIDIAG utility that AMI also sold separately, but most later AMI BIOSes do not include this program as the BIOS already incorporates detailed diagnostics.AMIBIOS is only sold through distributors, not direcly available from the manufacturer or from eSupport.AMI supplies both DOS and firmware upgrade utilities for its own motherboards. ESupport only supplies a Win32 upgrade utility. AMIDiag AMIDiag is a family of PC diagnostic utilities sold to only. The AMIDiag Suite was introduced in 1991 and made available for, and platforms. It includes both the Windows and DOS PC diagnostics programs.

Later versions of AMIDiag support UEFI, which allows diagnostics to be performed directly on the hardware components, without having to use operating system drivers or facilities. Former Products StorTrends/ManageTrends The family of network-based backup and storage management software and hardware includes several NAS and iSCSI-based SAN servers with 4, 12, or 16 drive bays.AMI couples off-the-shelf hardware with the StorTrends iTX storage management firmware platform. StorTrends offers synchronous, asynchronous and snap-assisted replication, high-availability grouping and advanced caching.Reliability and performance is the key for any storage server. StorTrends iTX 2.8 is designed to support Storage Bridge Bay specification that provide Auto- capability to ensure that any interruption is handled without affecting data. It supports, redundancy, scalability, replication, disaster recovery and multiple site backups. DuOS-M Dual OS Environment for Microsoft WindowsAmerican MegatrendsInitial releaseJuly 2014. 2008-05-12 at the.

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