Paul Chermak

Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users

Symmetricom, Inc. develops and manufactures advanced network synchronization systems. It is a provider of timekeeping technologies, instruments and solutions. The firm offers atomic clocks, hydrogen masers, timescale systems, GPS instrumentation, synchronous supply units, standards based clients and servers, performance measurement and management tools and embedded subsystems that generate, distribute and apply precise frequency and time products. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

i2 Technologies, Inc. provided demand-driven supply chain solutions designed to enable business agility. Its flexible solutions can synchronize demand and supply across an ever-changing global supply network. The company was founded in 1988 and was headquartered in Dallas, TX.

ITM Software Corp. provided integrated business management solutions. The firm offered services to corporations, government agencies, and universities. It provided solutions for addressing the areas of information technology business management including people, processes, vendors, assets, financials, projects, and regulatory compliance. The company was founded by Jorge Helmer, Thomas Niermann, and Steve O'Connor in 2001 and was headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

In 1982, Jim Clark, a leading researcher of computer graphics, established Silicon Graphics, Inc. at a laboratory in the Stanford University. Its visualization technology created a revolution of computer graphics in Hollywood and brought computer graphics innovations to a wide variety of fields including entertainment, science and research, culture and manufacturing. To develop these kinds of businesses, SGI Japan, Ltd was founded in 1987. SGI Japan conducted an advanced experiment of the Japan-first Video-On-Demand (VOD) system over fiber optics in Japan with NTT in 1995. This was only one of SGI's early innovative challenges to lead the age of Internet toward broadband infrastracture. Cray Research LLC merged with SGI in 1996, since then that legacy has delivered extensively sophisticated computer simulations in the fields of advanced science and technology and manufacturing. Leading the high-performance computing field, SGI has been supporting development of various computer simulations in cutting-edge science and manufacturing. In 2001, strengthening partnerships including capital investments with major business enterprises in the country, SGI Japan was reborn from a wholly owned subsidiary of US-based Silicon Graphics, Inc. as a hybrid business enterprise to strongly root itself in the Japanese market. Based on its three core competencies 'Visualization', 'Scalability' and 'Broadband', SGI Japan continues to establish advanced computing environments ahead of its time. Now that Japan's broadband and ubiquitous infrastructure is rapidly improving, SGI Japan's unique and comprehensive solutions, based on its technologies, experience and best practices accumulated since its establishment, are able to resolve its customers' content management challenges in all fields of industry.