Custom Configured, Application Optimized Server Solutions

AMS, a manufacturer of data storage systems, workstations, and servers, caters to OEM and Dakota brand customers. Since 1991, AMS – with strict attention to detail and quality – has provided custom configured servers and workstations with state-of-the-art components per each customer’s requirements and application needs. Dakota server and storage server products ship with a three year advance parts replacement warranty. AMS is a proud supplier of Supermicro-based systems.

All-Flash NVMe Server Solutions

Large throughput gains (6x)
Substantial latency improvements (7x)
Shared common backplane improves flexibility of drive choice
2.5″ U.2 (SFF-8639) hot-swap form factor vs. PCI-E Flash cards
Ultra-fast performance for demanding workloads

Latest generation Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable CPU Servers with support for up to:

  • 3TB ECC 3DS LRDIMM or RDIMM DDR4-2666MHz memory
  • 7 PCI-E slots
  • 48 Hot-swap NVMe SSDs
  • 10GBase-T/10G SFP+/56Gbps FDR InfiniBand networking
  • Redundant Titanium Level (96%+) Digital power supplies
  • IPMI 2.0 plus KVM with dedicated LAN

Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor - X12 Solutions

  • Dual 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors up to 270W TDP or dual 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors
  • SAS 3.0 (12 Gb/s), SATA 3.0 (6 Gb/s), NVMe Hot Swap HDD/SSD Support
  • Hot-Swap NVME/SATA/SAS drive bays; Up to 22x 2.5″ NVMe hybrid; Optional RAID support
  • Up to 32 DIMM Slots, up to 8TB DDR4-3200 memory, or 12TB with 16x 256GB DRAM and 16x 512GB Intel® Optane™ persistent memory 200 series
  • 1U, 2U, 3U/Mini-Tower, 4U/Tower, Twin Series, and 8U SuperBlade® configurations
  • 10GBase-T/10G SFP+/56Gbps FDR InfiniBand networking options
  • Open Industry Standard IPMI, Redfish APIs, Full Suite of Management Software Including SuperCloud Composer

Storage Servers, JBODs, and JBOFs

  • Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600v4 and Scalable Processors
  • 1TB 3DS ECC LRDIMM or 256GB ECC RDIMM memory
  • 2U, 3U, and 4U form factors using 2.5″ or 3.5″ SSDs/HDDs; Up to 90 HDD/SSDs in 4U Rack
  • RAID Mode or IT (HBA) Mode configurations
  • 10GBase-T/10G SFP+/56Gbps FDR InfiniBand networking options
  • Optimized for Microsoft, VMWare, RedHat and Software-Defined Storage solutions
  • 2U, 3U, and 4U Single and Dual Expander JBOD configurations; Up to 90 HDD/SSDs in 4U
  • 1U JBOF (Just a Bunch of Flash); 32 hot-swap U.2 NVMe SSDs

Twin Solutions - Highest Performance-per-Watt/per-Dollar

  • Up to 24 DIMMs of Up to 3TB of up to 2666MHz memory per node
  • Redundant (96%) Efficiency Titantium Level Power Supplies
  • Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and E5-2600v4
  • Up to 6x 3.5″ or 12x 2.5″ SAS3 / SATA3 HDDs / SSDs per node
  • NVMe Support
  • PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots for 10GBase-T/10G SFP+/56Gbps FDR InfiniBand networking options
  • SATA DOM Support
  • Server Management with Onboard IPMI 2.0 + KVM with dedicated LAN
  • 1U – 2 Node; 2U – 2 & 4 Node; 4U – 4 & 8 Node Configurations
  • 2U – 8 Node Intel® Atom™

Nvidia® Tesla®/Intel Xeon Phi®/AMD FirePro™ Solutions

  • PERFORMANCE: Up to 4x 300W GPU/Xeon Phi™ cards in 1U to maximize computing power
  • FLEXIBILITY: Capable of supporting Active & Passive GPU/Xeon Phi™ for unique workloads
  • MANAGEABILITY: Server management & GPU status monitoring through IPMI 2.0
  • RELIABILITY: 2000W (1+1) Redundant Titanium Level power supplies & intelligent cooling control
  • EFFICIENCY: Breakthrough system architecture to optimize TCO, with Titanium Level power supplies, advanced cooling, and high-end motherboard components
  • DESIGN: Optimized architecture with no GPU/Xeon Phi™ preheating
  • 1U – Up to 4 GPU/Xeon Phi/FirePro
  • 2U – Up to 6 GPU/Xeon Phi/FirePro
  • 4U – Up to 10 GPU/Xeon Phi/FirePro
  • 4U – Up to 20 PCI-E NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU Accelerators
  • 4U Twin – Up to 12 GPU/Xeon Phi/FirePro
  • 5U, 8-Way – Up to 8 GPU/Xeon Phi/FirePro
  • 7U – Up to 20 Xeon Phi/FirePro
  • Tower – Up to 4 GPU/Xeon Phi/FirePro

SuperBlade Solutions

  • Single or Dual Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors or Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processors Supported
  • 8U – 20x 2-socket blade servers or 10x 4-socket blade servers
  • 6U – 14x 2-socket or 1-socket blade servers
  • 4U – 14x 2-socket blade servers
  • Hot-swap U.2 NVMe, up to 8 drives per blade server
  • Remote Management (IPMI 2.0, KVM over IP, remote Virtual Media)
  • High Efficiency Platinum Level Redundant Power Supplies
  • 100G EDR InfiniBand, 100G Intel® Omni-Path, and 25G/10G/1G Ethernet switches

MicroBlade - Highest Density for Best Space Savings

  • 6U – Up to 28 Hot Swap Blade Servers (112 nodes)
  • 3U – Up to 14 Hot Swap Blade Servers (28 Nodes)
  • Up to 784 Avoton nodes (6272 cores) per 42U rack
  • Up to 99% cable reduction
  • Up to 4x GbE switches with 2x 40Gb/s QSFP or 8x 10Gb/s SFP+ uplinks per enclosure
  • Remote Management (IPMI 2.0, KVM over IP, remote Virtual Media)
  • Up to 8x (N+1 or N+N redundant) 2000W Titanium certified high-efficiency (96%) digital power supplies

MicroCloud Solutions

  • 3U – 8, 12, or 24 Single Processor Nodes
  • 1 PCI-E 3.0 x8 LP slot per node
  • Up to 2x 3.5” hot-swap or 4x 2.5” fixed SATA3.0 (6Gbps) HDDs per node
  • High efficiency Platinum Level (94%) 1+1 redundant power supplies
  • IPMI 2.0 remote management plus KVM with dedicated LAN per node
  • Intel® Atom™ C2750, Xeon ® E5-2600 v2 and E3-1200 v2 / 1200 v3 families, AMD Opteron™ 3000 series

Ceph Solutions

  • Ceph Optimized Server Configurations
  • Object and Block Level Storage with S3 and OpenStack API Support
  • Hybrid Disk configurations deliver low-latency performance
  • 10G Frontend Networking
  • Bonded 10G Backend Networking (20Gb/s OSD-to-OSD)
  • Out-of-Band Server Management Software (OOB)

Certified Solutions

  • Open Converged configurations for Datrium
  • Software Defined Storage configurations for VMware, Ceph, Nexenta, Lustre, and Microsoft
  • OpenStack configurations for Canonical, Suse, and Mirantis
  • Solutions for SAP HANA®

Hadoop Solutions

  • Fully-validated, pre-configured building block SKUs optimized for Hadoop solutions
  • PoC Cluster
  • High Capacity Cluster
  • IO Optimized Cluster
  • High Density Compute Cluster
  • Large Memory & Storage Cluster
  • Balanced Cluster
  • Large Memory Cluster

Solutions We Offer

The challenges you face at your place of business demand fully-functional, targeted solutions. If you have a need or particular pain point – be it a desire to address primary storage, backup, disaster recovery, or an archive project – we can help.