Amdahl Announces New Business Group To Provide Global Businesses With Industry-Leading Technology To Meet IT Infrastructure Challenges.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 17, 1998-- William Flanagan William Flanagan (August 14, 1923 – September 1, 1969) was an American composer of the mid-twentieth century. Flanagan was a great admirer of Ravel and Aaron Copland, who became something of a mentor. His best work was in the realm of vocal music. appointed Group President of Amdahl Technology Group. Amdahl Corporation (company) Amdahl Corporation - A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and today announced the creation of its new Amdahl Technology Group (ATG ATG antithymocyte globulin. lymphocyte immune globulin (antithymocyte globulin equine, ATG, ATG equine, LIG) Atgam Pharmacologic class: Immunoglobulin Therapeutic class: Immunosuppressant ), a product-supply organization designed to meet the infrastructure challenges of global businesses. Amdahl has appointed William Flanagan as Group President of ATG, reporting directly to David B. Wright, President and Chief Executive Officer of Amdahl Corporation. Under Mr. Flanagan's direction, ATG will work with Fujitsu and other leading vendors to supply superior products for the world's most demanding computer environments. The primary channel for ATG offerings will be through the newly formed Amdahl Global Solutions (Amdahl/GS) group, complemented by alternate channels in worldwide markets. ATG can supply enterprises with a wide range of powerful technology to consolidate resources, increase enterprise performance and reduce costs. "Bill Flanagan is a respected leader with a wealth of product experience in the marketplace that is essential to our success," said David B. Wright, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Amdahl Corporation. "He has a wide knowledge of the industry coupled with a determination to achieve success that will enable him to lead the ATG to a dominant position in supplying global businesses with technology that meets their most demanding IT infrastructure requirements." Bill Flanagan started his career with Amdahl in 1973 in manufacturing. Since then, he has held positions in material control, production control, production operations and manufacturing control. In addition, Mr. Flanagan has maintained a variety of executive level positions including: Vice President of Manufacturing and Senior Vice President, Product Operations Group. He is also responsible for the development and deployment of Amdahl's Year 2000 compliance program. Prior to joining Amdahl, Bill Flanagan held management positions with Varian Associates Varian Associates was a company founded in 1948 by Russell H. and Sigurd F. Varian, William Webster Hansen, and Edward Ginzton to sell the klystron, the first tube which could generate electromagnetic waves at microwave frequencies, and other electromagnetic equipment. and Control Data Corporation. About Amdahl Amdahl Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace with revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1998. Amdahl provides integrated enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world. Amdahl has over 25 years of experience with large-scale computing solutions and client/server technology. The company supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer environments that blend MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. (R), Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R), and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with world class offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries. For the Year 2000 compliance status of this offering or any other Amdahl offering, visit the Amdahl Year 2000 Web site at: www.amdahl.com/y2k Amdahl is a registered trademark of Amdahl Corporation. MVS is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively (except in Japan where such license is non-exclusive) through the Open Software Foundation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners. NOTE TO EDITORS: Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet at www.amdahl.com , the Amdahl Corporation home page. The Amdahl site provides current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing. |
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