MARLBORO, Mass.—October 26, 2006—Egenera Inc., a global leader in datacenter virtualization, today announced the appointment of Peter J. Manca to chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering. Mr. Manca formerly served as Egenera's senior vice president of engineering, having spent the past five years guiding all aspects of product development, product management and program management. He has more than 20 years' experience in enterprise computing.
Mr. Manca's expertise spans a wide range of critical enterprise datacenter technologies including virtualization, operating systems, large-scale architectures and open standards. In particular, his leadership and experience in virtualization technologies has led to the continued progression of Egenera's advanced PAN (Processing Area Network) architecture. As CTO, Mr. Manca will lead product planning by working directly with customers to understand their most difficult challenges and guide Egenera's architecture, hardware, and software engineering teams to translate those requirements into solutions. Vern Brownell, the company's founder, has assumed the role of chief strategy officer, where he will continue to drive Egenera's strategic technology direction and counsel customers.
"Pete has been instrumental in Egenera's success from the very beginning," said Mike Thompson, president and CEO, Egenera. "He was a key contributor to the initial product concept and architecture in 2000, and has led our engineering team in the development of an advanced solution that continues to be at least 18 months ahead of any competition."
Thompson continued, "Pete's contributions go far beyond engineering leadership. He is truly front and center internally and externally, with our employees, customers and industry partners. His expertise continues to be invaluable as we grow the business and bring new solutions to market."
Prior to Egenera, Mr. Manca served as vice president of engineering at Hitachi Computer Products America with responsibility for operating systems and enterprise middleware products —contributing to the development of the world's then-fastest commercial supercomputer. While a software engineer with Encore Computer, he began cultivating his specialty in distributed operating systems as a member of the team that built the first commercial system based on MACH technology. He has also held senior engineering and management positions with Prime Computer and Racal Interlan.
Mr. Manca holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where he has taught operating systems and networking at the graduate level. He has also actively participated in the X/Open and Open Software Foundation (OSF) consortiums.
About Egenera Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in delivering enterprise computing solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera BladeFrame system simplifies the datacenter with an innovative server architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and enable IT to respond rapidly to business requirements. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important business applications and achieve higher resource utilization, faster application time to market and lower total cost of ownership. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide. For more information visit www.egenera.com, call 508-858-2600 or send email to info@egenera.com.
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