This week at Intel Developer Forum (IDF), AMI showcased their MegaRAC manageability solutions. MegaRAC is AMI’s Remote Management Firmware family of products for both in-band and out-of-band management, including supporting IPMI, Intel AMT, AMD systems with DMTF DASH. Amongst the new features of MegaRAC SP-X are DMTF Redfish support, and Intel(R) Innovation Engine support.
I don’t know much about Intel’s new “Innovation Engine” is yet, so I’ll excerpt one paragraph from the AMI press release:
“The Innovation Engine is a small, embedded, Intel-architecture processor and I/O subsystem built into future Intel data center platforms,” said Lisa Spelman, General Manager of Data Center Marketing at Intel. “Firmware such as MegaRAC PM-X running on the IE can improve or differentiate the system-builders’ platforms in a wide range of ways, including manageability, cost reduction or security.”
Maybe this means that AMI is the second vendor to support Redfish, after HP?
Read AMI’s full press release here:
http://www.ami.com/news/press-releases/?PressReleaseID=325&/American%20Megatrends%20to%20Showcase%20MegaRAC%20Manageability%20Solutions%20for%20Rack%20Scale%20Architecture%20and%20Innovation%20Engine%20at%20IDF%20San%20Francisco%202015/
https://www.megarac.com/live/document-library/
http://www.ami.com/products/remote-management/
https://firmwaresecurity.com/tag/redfish/
