AMD Targets Government Market Through Strategic Relationship With GTSI

AMD Targets Government Market Through Strategic Relationship With GTSI

AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced a strategic relationship with GTSI Corp. (NASDAQ:GTSI), a tier one government technology solutions provider. Announced at the FOSE Conference and Exposition, held April 5-7 in Washington, D.C., the relationship is designed to provide GTSI’s government customers with increased access to industry-leading AMD64 technology and support services.

“Since the introduction of the AMD Opteronâ„¢ processor with Direct Connect Architecture just two years ago, enterprise customers from diverse industries have recognized the leading-edge performance enabled by AMD64 technology,” said Kevin Knox, vice president, Worldwide Commercial Business Development, AMD. “Together with the government sector’s premier IT provider, AMD is now able to leverage GTSI’s strong industry penetration to provide government customers with the proven benefits of AMD64 technology – lower IT operating costs and the investment protection to migrate from 32- to 64-bit applications when they are ready.”

“Our decision to work with AMD is a direct response to the needs of our customers,” said Sue Miller, senior manager, HP Enterprise Technology Practice, GTSI. “AMD64 technology is backward-compatible and that means our customers don’t have to overhaul their IT systems to run both today’s 32-bit applications and next-generation 64-bit applications. We see AMD processors as providing our customers with performance advantages for both their current and future computing needs.”

Extending AMD’s reach into the government sector, the new relationship provides a greater emphasis on the AMD64 product family to GTSI’s certified IT specialists. This includes an investment in training for GTSI’s sales and technology practice professionals on the AMD Opteron processor, the world’s first 32- and 64-bit processor compatible with x86 technology. AMD’s pioneering dual-core-ready x86-based processor design for 64-bit computing serves thousands of global customers in industries ranging from manufacturing to financial services, and is today powering solutions for more than 40 percent of the Forbes Global 100 companies or their affiliates. For more information please visit www.amd.com/enterprise.

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