Differentiators

As a vertical component of a nearly $100m entity, Thinkmate enjoys quantifiable, internal economies of scale which greatly benefit our customers. By not exclusively owning, staffing, or maintaining multiple hardware integration and staging facilities, our production-overhead costs are tremendously reduced. Moreover, with financial and supply chain management services also professionally administered at the corporate level, Thinkmate is able to deliver additional value. In short, we have tremendous, consolidated production and managerial capabilities at our disposal internally. With inherently lower, distributed costs of goods and fewer fiscal management distractions than smaller competitors, we are extremely focused on our true mission of delivering affordable and reliable technology solutions.

Thinkmate is always researching, evaluating and adopting new technologies. We proactively form strategic alliances with technology partners whose products and services best serve our client's needs. By being focused on our market, we take advantage of the latest solutions which can deliver the best price-performance ratios within the context of a given engagement.

As a mid-sized firm we are able to embrace shifting technologies without corporate drag. In essence, we are never bound to tow company lines in terms of pushing specific configurations --choosing rather to educate our prospective customers about all of their hardware or software integration options.

We have built and deployed many sizable HPC systems for several leading clustering firms, government resellers, and EndUser sites --nearly 10 of which are [or would be] Top-500 listed configurations as of November 2004. Whether branded by third-parties or provided by Thinkmate directly, from a hardware integration and support standpoint, our reputation for reliability is impeccable. Thinkmate has integrated multiple 256-CPU (Linux) Beowulf-cluster systems which have been running 24x7x365 at mission critical sites with sub-1% failure rates for years --statistically flawless with tens of thousands of internal sub-components in the field.

As talk is cheap, many highly reputable references at major datacenters have very kindly agreed to attest to our levels of quality and ability to deliver ongoing value upon request. References matter.