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Introduction
Supermicro, a name
synonymous within the OEMs, SIs,
Enterprise solution industry, and to
experienced SoHo users. From its
foundation back in 1993 Supermicro has
grown from strength to strength, pushing
forward its advanced solutions, giving
end-users years of worry free
computational power. Here we tend to
only use either Supermicro or Intel
mainboards for the launch of new
professional graphics cards as the
systems themselves have to be completely
stable from the very beginning. With
these solutions we have no worries based
on our experience and relationship with
Supermicro over the last 12 year period.
To further investigate a company of this
magnitude, you need to get right through
the front doors and break down the
cemented brick wall barriers that are
often put into place for journalists.
Relationships of explicit trust need to
be built for many years before such
access is granted, so, getting that
itself demands an exclusive headline.
This in turn allows you, the reader, to
fully understand why choices are made at
such high levels, when major corporate
companies prefer Supermicro equipment
as first line choice over
other Tier 1 companies. More
importantly it explains why we
independently use Supermicro products
for those mission critical first outings
with the professional cards.
When
the rare opportunity came up for us to
actually visit Supermicro's Head
Quarters in San Jose, CA, we jumped
straight away at the chance. Our
primary goal of the visit was to gain an
interview with the Mighty Man who
tightly controls the complete
Supermicro's organisation: Mr. Charles
Liang. This is the most highly sought
after man within the company, the C.E.O.
and Co-Founder. To our great
surprise this was readily agreed upon.
Many will know that Mr. Charles Liang
does not readily partake in direct face
to face interviews and this was a
magnificent first for us here.
The morning started with a brief on the
Company, its humble beginning, and to
its mighty strength now within the
industry. We next were privy to a
briefing on up and coming products and
current product lines, which was most
informative. This is going to be one
almighty interesting year from
Supermicro, this much we can say for
now. What came across abundantly clear
was the extensive enthusiasm to every
brief that was undertaken. Each member
of staff showed his utter dedication to
his own individual line to which he is
responsible for. It has to be said we
were completely taken aback at this not
often seen complete dedication. The
question floating around "Where does it
all come from, as it is incredible"; we
would find out soon enough.
Some more chats and
meetings with various key personnel we
have dealt with over the years - its
actually remarkable who still works for
the company after all this time.
Therefore before we knew it; it was
actually time to sit down in the mighty
boardroom for our face to face interview
with Mr. Charles Liang, CEO of
Supermicro.
Keeping it fair and to ensure we ask
questions that do not require a
response breaching any NDAs, we fully
prepared a substantial set of questions
for the interview. This way it would
ensure a fair field of fluent discussion
on many topics which are critical in
today’s market place. |
