Newisys

Newisys, a Server and Storage company with expertise in glue-chips for Opterons, based in Austin, Texas, was co-founded by Claymon A Cipione (who was later AMD CIO from 2005-2008) and Phil Hester (who later was AMD's CTO from 2005 till 2008) in 2000, and was acquired in 2004 by manufacturer Sanmina-SCI. In 2006, the company acquired the "bloc" product division of Adaptec (essentially the products that weren't Snap or HBAs), expanding the storage offering to rack-mount JBOD and RAID systems.