| Type | Public (NASDAQ: SGI) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Diversified computer systems |
| Founded | San José, California 1999 |
| Headquarters | Fremont, California, U.S. |
| Key people | Mark Barrenechea, President and CEO Eng Lim Goh, Ph.D., Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer |
| Products | Servers, storage, data center and cloud computing solutions |
| Services | Professional and managed services |
| Website | http://www.sgi.com |
Silicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI; formerly Rackable Systems, Inc.) (Nasdaq: SGI), is an American manufacturer of computer hardware and software, including high-performance computing solutions, x86-based servers for datacenter deployment, and visualization products. It was founded as Rackable Systems in 1999.
On April 1, 2009, Rackable Systems announced an agreement to acquire Silicon Graphics, Inc. for $25 million.[1] The sale, ultimately for $42.5 million, was finalized on May 11, 2009; at the same time, Rackable announced their adoption of "SGI" as their global name and brand.[2][3]
In Feb 2010, SGI purchased substantially all the assets and assumed a limited amount of liabilities of COPAN Systems, Inc. COPAN was a provider of high performance storage archive solutions for real-time access to long-term persistent data, and COPAN products are now offered as part of the SGI storage line.
In March 2011 SGI acquired all outstanding shares of SGI Japan, Ltd.
On August 15, 2011, the company announced that it had acquired OpenCFD Ltd., developers of open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software.
The "new" SGI has two main product lines:
At the time of the acquisition's completion, SGI said that they anticipated the majority of the two companies' product lines would survive, although there is likely to be some consolidation where the overlap between products is high.[4]