SGI breakthrough technology for Mideast
Dubai | By A Staff Reporter | 01/04/2003
Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) announced new corporate strategies for delivering its breakthrough technology in emerging sectors to high-end clients in the Middle East.
SGI has expanded its core speciality areas to meet the next-generation demands of businesses and governments, with a new focus on earth science, manufacturing, entertainment and media industries as well as sciences.
The new move is designed to consolidate established core strengths of offering mission critical solutions targeted specifically at five key sectors of government and defence, sciences, manufacturing, energy and media sectors.
Philippe Miltin, regional general manager for France, Middle East and Africa, SGI, said: "Major governments and business organisations in the Middle East have displayed a strong commitment to high technology in recent years, creating a critical need for the type of speciality solutions provided by SGI."
As a leader in high-performance breakthrough computing for high-end clients, SGI is committed to bringing the next generation innovations to the Middle East, spurred by several positive developments that reflect the huge potential for SGI's kind of speciality products and solutions.
The huge potential for SGI's products in the region can be gauged from the company's growth in Saudi Arabia, where several leading companies, including oil companies, are adopting SGI's next-generation solutions for a variety of applications.
SGI allocates between 12 and 15 per cent of its total revenues to research and development, enabling it to have a competitive edge as it constantly innovates to provide cutting edge technology to its high profile clients.
SGI's top-end products include high production servers and supercomputers that provide technical professionals with high performance solutions; visualisation systems that allow speed decision making, decrease prototyping costs and quick flaw detection; advanced workstations for creative and technical professionals and data management solutions that optimise workflow and manage most complex data.
The company offers highly advanced solutions for medical imaging and weather forecasting.
SGI serves a $15 billion market and is poised for higher growth due to the unabated demand for high performance computing products.
Its customers include some of the world's leading corporations, research institutions and government and defence markets, including 40 per cent of the Fortune 500 companies. |
