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SAN JOSE, California, Feb. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing is expanding its range of server and storage solutions supporting Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) technology with the industry's first, true hot-swap NVMe capability. Supermicro' wide range of NMVe solutions are available across its 1U Ultra and WIO SuperServers, 2U Ultra, TwinPro, EXDP 32DIMM and DCO SuperServers, 4U FatTwin and 7U SuperBlade platforms. Supermicro's NVMe performance advantages include up to 6x throughput gains and 7x lower latency vs current SATA3/SAS3 SSD technology. Supermicro NVMe solutions deliver maximum performance in HPC, Oil and Gas, HFT, High Security Encryption, VDI, 3D visualization for Aerospace and Automotive design, Hyper-scale Data Center, Cloud, Virtualization, and Enterprise environments.

"Supermicro NVMe solutions deliver the latest low-latency storage technologies first to market with our true hot-swap drive functionality offering an unparalleled serviceability advantage," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "With over thirty server and storage platforms across 1U, 2U, 4U server and 7U blade form factors Supermicro is unrivaled in variety and choice to meet any performance or configuration requirement. In addition, with our advanced cooling architecture and high efficiency Titanium level power supplies Supermicro solutions offer maximum performance per watt, per dollar, per square foot to lower overall TCO."

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With 30 seconds of airtime costing around $4.5 million during the Super Bowl, and over 100 million viewers to reach, companies want to spend their advertising dollars wisely. But they also need to take risks, doing something cute, shocking or memorable that will have people talking about the commercial around the water cooler on Monday. The commercials during the game either inspire awe, like mini-movies or give people the opportunity for a bathroom break.

Ads for the 2015 game on Sunday night drew notice for their overall somber toneand for some head-scratching miscues. The Wall Street Journal is currently running an online poll where you can vote for your own picks for best and worst Super Bowl ads.

This year, there were some returning stars Budweiser rolled out its cute, horse-loving puppy for the second consecutive year and some breakout stars: smartphone recharger Mophie ran a bleak, end-of-the-world ad to show how some people feel when their phone runs out of batteries, and Always feminine products had a #runlikeagirl ad that aims to debunk negative stereotypes and empower young girls.

Not everyone likes the commercials enough to watch the entire game. Im the guy who left a friends Super Bowl Party during the first part of the half-time show, says Jonathan Bernstein, president of public relations consultancy Bernstein Crisis Management. That said, most of the ads are available online before (and after) the game.

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TIME Sports Football Madden Simulation Accurately Predicts Super Bowl XLIX Score New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) hoists the Vince Lombardi Trophy after defeating the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX at University of Phoenix Stadium Kyle TeradaUSA Today Sports/Reuters Computer Tom Brady also threw for all four of the Patriots touchdowns

Madden NFL 15s simulation of Super Bowl XLIX proved to be strikingly accurate.

In the Madden simulation, the Seahawks led 24-14 in the third quarter following a Marshawn Lynch touchdown run, but the Patriots dug deep and came storming back to win 28-24.

Sound familiar?

In the real Super Bowl, the Seahawks also led 24-14 in the third quarter, albeit after a Doug Baldwin touchdown catch. But the Patriots still came back to win 28-24 after a Julian Edelman touchdown catch.

Computer Tom Brady threw for all four of the Patriots touchdowns in the simulation and was awarded his third Super Bowl MVP award. In the real game, Brady also threw four touchdowns.

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If you've seen this year's list of Super Bowl advertisers, you might be questioning exactly what Wix is.

But while tech companies like Wix aren't quite household names, they've been betting big on Super Bowl ads for decades.

Most famously, Apple (AAPL, Tech30) did so with its 1984 Super Bowl Ad.

"It was an insane success," said Kelly O'Keefe, professor of brand strategy at the Virginia Commonwealth University Brand Center.

In those days, Apple was hardly the Goliath it is today. The company had gone public just four years prior. And its Super Bowl ad introduced the Macintosh, its first mass-market personal computer, to the world.

Directed by Ridley Scott, Apple's ad made the American event one of the year's biggest advertising stages and led to increased production values across the board.

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Wix is hoping to take a play from Apple's book -- and make a name for its brand with the 100 million people watching the Super Bowl.

Founded in Israel in 2006, Wix lets businesses and individuals build their own websites -- no coding experience required. It has 900 employees, 58 million registered users (80% of whom are small business owners) and offers its services in 11 languages.

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Hey bro, it's almost Super Bowl Sunday! You know what that means, right? Testosterone and fatty foods. For one day a year, weak computer nerds like me pretend to be men by watching NFL football and eating junk food. Truth be told, I enjoy watching American football, but for the most part, I am happier watching Big Bang Theory or The Bachelor with a nice cup of herbal tea!

Don't worry, if you are a computer nerd that isn't interested in watching sports, you can at least use technology to enhance the Super Bowl experience. How? With Twitter, of course! Yes, between watching the commercials, you can pull out your iPad or Nexus 9 and follow the action with the hashtag #SB49. This will enable you to at least look like you know what you are talking about when the other guys are discussing the game.

"Our Super Bowl #SB49 timeline makes it easy to get in the game. With it you can see Super Bowl-related Tweets from players, teams, media members, celebrities, fans and people in your network, plus the live score on game day. To see this timeline, search for or tap on #SB49, #SuperBowl or #NFL within Twitter. The timeline is available now on the Twitter app for iPhone and Android and twitter.com (to get it, make sure you have the latest version of the Twitter app)", says Twitter.

The blue-bird logo company further explains, "Youll also want to follow@NFL, the leagues official account, for the latest news around the game. With help from Draft Kings (@DraftKings), Ford (@FordTrucks), Pizza Hut (@pizzahut), and Disney (@DisneyPictures), passionate fans wont miss a top replay during#SB49.@NFLwill be Tweeting the best highlights immediately following the plays, so stay close to the feed for live video updates".

In advance of the game, you should probably learn who the most popular players are. Below are the top 5 most tweeted-about players from each team. Only Tom Brady, the best known player of them all, does not have a Twittter account. I can't say that this is surprising, as he probably would receive many nasty tweets regarding the deflated football scandal. Even if you aren't a sports fan, it has been impossible to escape the "DeflateGate" controversy in the mainstream news.

Patriots

Seahawks

Yes, I realize not all computer nerds are adverse to sports; if you are into both things, more power to you and I apologize for my generalization. With that said, it can be a very painful and emasculating feeling, when you don't fit the image of the typical man that society and the media portray. Believe me, you can still be a "real man" while not enjoying football, UFC fighting and other barbaric things. However, from a shared experience perspective, I urge you to watch the Super Bowl. If you get bored, just jump on Twitter; that's what I will do.

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The most likely score of Super Bowl XLIX, according to 50,000 computer simulations of Sundays big game? Seattle Seahawks 24, New England Patriots 20.

Though the Patriots are still favored in Las Vegas by 1 point, the Predictalator a computer system that analyzed myriad statistics and thereby simulated the Super Bowl 50,000 times is expecting Seattle to win its second consecutive NFL championship. The Seahawks won in 57.3 percent of simulations.

A Patriots fan, center, covers her ears as a Seahawks fan, left, cheers for his team during Super Bowl Media Day on Tuesday at US Airways Center in Phoenix. (Joshua Trujillo/seattlepi.com)

While their journeys may sound similar and the matchup looks like a classic, there is one major difference between these two teams that ultimately leads us to our prediction, wrote Paul Bessire of PredictionMachine.com, the Seattle Seahawks are, simply, the team more capable of dominating.

This is very important in a winner-take-all battle between two of the leagues best because it means that Seattle is both more poised to gain a lead that it can preserve and battle back to win in a comeback bid if it happens to get behind (as we saw in the NFC Championship Game). Sports and direct competition are often about utilizing ones strengths to exploit an opponents weaknesses.

PredictionMachine.coms Predictalator spit out a whole slew of forecast statistics. Check out the charts, sent to seattlepi.com via email:

One interesting note: The Predictalator assumed right tackle Justin Britt would not play due to injury. With second-year offensive lineman Alvin Bailey starting in Britts place in the NFC Championship game, Seattle struggled to adequately protect Russell Wilson in the pocket. But Britt, who markedly improved down the stretch of the regular season, said Tuesday he will play in Super Bowl XLIX.

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People like to throw around superlatives in discussing Super Bowl ads -- best, worst, funniest, most moving. But what about most important?

How can a Super Bowl ad be important? The six listed below helped change how advertisers, brands and Americans everywhere conceived of what an ad during the Super Bowl could be used to do.

Apple -- "1984" (1984) It was a big year for Apple. 1984 was the year the company launched the Macintosh personal computer, and it was the moment when the company decided to make the most expensive ad in its history. That spot is really what launched the Super Bowl of advertising, said Keith Quesenberry, a former creative director and current lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. Before that, there was a Super Bowl going on, and just regular ads ran during the Super Bowl.

Because of the sizable audience, he added, Apple decided to turn it into a special moment. The decision was not unanimous. Members of Apples board were very hesitant to spend so much money -- the ad had a $900,000 budget -- which included a hefty fee for Ridley Scott, the director behind "Alien" and "Blade Runner."

And, like so many Super Bowl ads, even though 1984 attracted a mountain of attention, it may not have helped move many units.

Chrysler -- "Imported From Detroit" (2010) Brands are not in the habit of buying Super Bowl airtime in the midst of historically bad years. But after being rescued from bankruptcy in 2008 and well on the way to its worst sales year since 1962, Chrysler needed to make a big bet. Thats why it laid out nearly $9 million for the 2-minute spot that was supposed to redefine not just the automakers brand, but the once-noble principle of buying American.

It took the perception of cars and flipped it on its head, Quesenberry said. This really had this big turning point.

A year later, the bet looked like it paid dividends: Chryslers sales rebounded 17 percent.

E*Trade -- We just wasted 2 million bucks This may sound crazy, but there was once an era when the streets of Silicon Valley were flush with venture capitalists cash, teeming with companies built on questionable business models throwing said cash around. On the one hand, this 1999 spot is emblematic of that time -- It goes back to the excess of the dot-com period, Qusenberry said -- but on the other, it was the first Super Bowl ad to explicitly acknowledge both its stakes and the place Super Bowl ads occupy in the American cultural imagination.

Plus, the ad gets bonus points for taking the Super Bowl ads chief talking point and turning it into a punchline.

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The commercial tie-ins to major sporting events are more important -- and visible -- than ever and the NFLs Super Bowl may be the biggest man on campus.

Every year we breathlessly await the premieres of those clever Super Bowl ads and it takes players on the winning team about five milliseconds to start sporting caps emblazoned with their team logo and embroidered type proclaiming them Super Bowl Champs.

Small businesses 'will receive'

If only there were a way for small businesses to benefit from a little bit of this Super Bowl madness. Well, there is. The NFL in conjunction with local Super Bowl host committees has a Business Connect program that aims to benefit small businesses located in the general area where the game is held. Although its too late to apply for this years business connect program, heres a list of products and services that it includes:

Building Materials, Carpenters, General Contractors, General Laborers, Painters, Catering/Restaurants, Food and Beverage, Event Planning, Entertainment, Tables and Chairs, Tenting, Furniture, Printing/Graphics, Signs and Banners, Security, Staffing, Transportation, Venues, Decorations, Balloons, Florist/Flowers, Gift Baskets, Gift Items, Novelties/Promotional Items, Media/Public Relations, Audio Visual, Sound, Video Equipment, Lighting/Staging, Pyrotechnics, Set Design and Construction, Courier Services, Electricians, Electronics (Wire and Supplies), Office Supplies, Photography/Video, Port-O-Lets, Waste Removal, Barricades, Carpeting/Flooring, Equipment Rentals, Fencing, Generators, Golf Carts, Hardware Supplies, Heavy Equipment, Linens, Pipe and Drape, Scaffolding, Tour Services, Trailers, Vans, Banking, Computer/web, Consulting, Employment agencies, Janitorial services, and Temporary staffing agency.

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Applications are being accepted for next years Super Bowl Business Connect Program, which is being held in the San Francisco Bay Areas new Levis Stadium. Businesses in the nine Bay Area counties can apply. However, the program is limited to businesses that are certified as minority-owned, women-owned, disabled veteran-owned, or lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Small business owners and local communities should steal this page out of the NFL playbook. While few cities will ever host a Super Bowl, there are all kinds of major yearly sporting events, such as tournaments and races. If there is one near you, see if they have an outreach program to local small businesses. If not, have your chamber of commerce and other business organizations, lobby the promoters to get something going.

Of course, when these kinds of events come to your town, there are many ways you can use them as tie-ins to sales and marketing campaigns. I will note, however, that if you dont want the NFL to come down on you like a 350-pound lineman, you need to steer clear of using the term Super Bowl for commercial purposes. They are very protective of that trademarked name and in that way they are far from alone in the world of big-money sports. Apparently using the phrase Super Sunday is okay and your customers will know what youre talking about.

So, get creative, get organized and find ways that big events can kickoff major sales in your small business.

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The Pets.com sock puppet dog stars in a commercial for the company, Jan. 11, 2000, in Los Angeles.

And every year, there are first-time advertisers that gamble millionsthis year up to $4.5 million for a 30-second spotin hopes of scoring big on game day and long afterward.

Many newbies have accomplished their goals and become perennial stalwarts, none more so than Budweiser, Coke, Pepsi and Doritos.

But there's also a long list of one-hit wonder brandsfrom household names to unfamiliar start-upsthat are no longer around, despite the success or failure of their ads. The reasons for their disappearances vary, of course, but their Super Bowl commercials certainly didn't help matters.

As you prepare for Super Bowl XLIX's game within the game, hark back on these 10 past one-and-done advertisers:

AMF (1979)

American Machine and Foundry grew from a small manufacturer of cigarette machines at the dawn of the 20th century into the epitome of a conglomerate.

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By 1979, AMF owned a vast corporate playground of recreational equipment companies, including several brands promoted in its Super Bowl XIII animated "We make weekends" spot.

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Artificial intelligence helped analyse patterns in the sun's magnetic lines It found that the energy stored in the magnetic field can forecast flares The next step would be to incorporate data from the sun's atmosphere Soon, Stanford researchers say the computer could help predict when flares will cause widespread power outages on Earth before they form

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Artificial intelligence is helping astronomers predict deadly solar flares that have the potential to cause havoc on Earth.

US researchers say their super computer can provide advance warning of solar eruptions, which can release energy equivalent to 100 billion atomic bombs.

The flares arise from twisted magnetic fields that occur all over the sun's surface, and they increase in frequency every 11 years - a cycle that is now at its maximum.

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Super Micro Computer (SMCI - Get Report) were gaining 1.2% to $38.20 after-hours Tuesday after the server maker beat analysts' estimates for earnings and revenue in the fiscal second quarter.

Supermicro reported earnings of 65 cents a share for the second quarter, above analysts' estimates of 47 cents a share. Revenue increased 41.1% year over year to $503 million in the quarter, while analysts' expected revenue of $467.86 million.

Looking to the third quarter Supermicro expects earnings of 46 cents a share to 52 cents and revenue of $450 million to $500 million. Analysts expect earnings of 43 cents a share and revenue of $457.77 million for the quarter.

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