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A Message from our CEO

I’d like to thank my many friends and business acquaintances for such fond relationships over the past 40 years. I have made some many lifelong friendships and look forward to carrying those forward within AmZetta. I look forward to helping companies worldwide implement technology solutions within their organizations helping them obtain a greater level of security and network connectivity for their employees, vendors and consultants. From Cybersecurity to SD-WAN, I am very excited about AmZetta’s cutting edge technologies and how they will immensely help organizations around the world.

Subramonian Shankar, CEO and Founder

232

US Patents

2051

Worldwide Installs

150

Employees

25 Years

IT Leadership

Company Overview

AmZetta Technologies Corporate Profile

AmZetta Technologies was launched in 2019 representing the fourth activity of technology guru Subramonian Shankar, known as Shankar to the vast majority of the IT World and Silicon Valley. Shankar formed AmZetta as a spinoff from American Megatrends (AMI). Shankar founded AMI in 1985 and led it as the President & CEO, till he stepped down in 2019, to become the largest BIOS and Remote Management vendor in the world.

There is a high probability that the computer you are currently using to view this website is running an AMI product, most likely the System BIOS from AMI. Shankar has architected and developed a plethora of technologies, both software and hardware, that have been deployed in hundreds of millions of computers and IT systems worldwide. From BIOS, Diagnostic Software, Keyboard Controllers, Motherboards, RAID, Remote Management Firmware, Storage (SAN & NAS), Thin Clients, Virtual Desktop Software (VDI) to SD-WAN and Cybersecurity products.

Shankar’s companies have been granted more than 500+ U.S. Patents on the technologies he has designed, developed and shipped.

Shankar founded AMI with a vision to supply core technologies to the nascent but fast-growing PC industry. Investment dollars were hard to get in the 80s, a harsh reality of the times, thus AMI was founded with a zero capital investment. With empty coffers, Shankar carefully crafted a strategy to first stay afloat and then grow the company, by leveraging credit from vendors and getting customers to pay in advance for services and products, an approach that required technologically advanced ideas that compelled customers to open up their wallets and smooth execution.

Shankar’s first major break happened when Shankar engaged with Michael Dell and convinced Dell that he could design the world’s most advanced and best performing motherboard, a cache based 80386 motherboard, during a period when 80286 based motherboards were considered top of the line. Michael Dell’s PC Ltd. based out of Austin, TX, (now known as Dell Computers) became AMI’s first Motherboard customer. This became the basis for a long-lasting relationship between the companies and Shankar’s and Michael’s companies have engaged in numerous projects over the past 36+ years.

Shankar’s motherboard idea, first pitched to Dell, was a global hit. AMI motherboards became known for being the best performing motherboard in the industry. PC Magazine called it the “ubiquitous motherboard” because they found AMI’s motherboard in so many different PC’s they tested. While very popular in USA and Taiwan, users from far away countries like Peru, Brazil, South Africa, South Korea, India etc., made the trip to AMI to purchase the motherboards.

Shankar has had the opportunity to license technologies and sell IT products into all the major OEMs such as Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Intel, Samsung, Huawei, Oracle, Cisco, Dell, HPE and so many more.

After a 34-year career at AMI, Shankar made the decision to step down in 2019 from his role of President & CEO. While Shankar remains Chairman of the Board at AMI, he shifted his day-to-day focus to help grow new businesses.
Shankar and Michael Dell

Enter AmZetta

AmZetta Technologies was founded in 2019 by Subramonian Shankar, the same engineer who co-founded American Megatrends (AMI) in 1985 and built it over 34 years into the world's largest BIOS firmware company. AMI's technology runs on a significant portion of every computer manufactured globally. Shankar built AMI entirely on retained earnings, never taking a dollar of venture capital, and grew it into one of the most foundational technology companies in the history of the PC industry. AmZetta carries that same engineering-first philosophy forward.

Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, with engineering operations across the US and India, AmZetta focuses on two areas where it can deliver real differentiation: endpoint computing and secure network connectivity.

On the endpoint side, our flagship product SnapOS is a lightweight operating system that converts existing x86 PCs into secure, centrally managed thin clients, giving IT teams a cost-effective alternative to a full hardware refresh. SnapOS is compatible with leading VDI and DaaS platforms including Omnissa, Citrix, Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, and Amazon WorkSpaces, connecting users seamlessly to the environments they already use. It is managed centrally through zMAN, our endpoint management platform, giving administrators full visibility and control across their entire device fleet from a single pane of glass.

On the network side, zWAN is our secure SD-WAN solution designed for branch offices and distributed workforces, and zAccess delivers Zero Trust Network Access on a never-trust, always-verify model.

With over 230 US patents and a team that averages decades of experience across BIOS, firmware, Linux, networking, virtualization, and endpoint management, AmZetta brings a level of engineering depth that newer entrants in this space simply cannot match.

Visit amzetta.com to learn more or schedule a demo of SnapOS.