Market Testimonials

"Egenera's Processing Blades are diskless, anonymous and interchangeable, allowing for automated allocation, repurposing and failover. By dynamically allocating resources instead of assigning individual servers to specific applications, the Egenera BladeFrame cuts the clutter and significantly streamlines data center operations."

"The BladeFrame beat the price/performance pants off equivalent SPARC systems."

"Egenera continues to advance the blade computing concept at a quicker clip than the big boys such as IBM and HP."

"Egenera offers provisioning features flexible enough to let administrators take a blade's processor and put it to work as if it were part of another blade that needs more processing power. The same can be done with other components, such as a storage connection or a network card. Such changes can be programmed to occur automatically, according to policies established in advance that reallocate resources as needed."

"Today, heavyweights such as Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun are the biggest suppliers of blades; together these five companies supply more than 90 percent of the blade market. But the small group of newer and smaller vendors that share the rest of the pie-notably Egenera Inc., in Marlboro, Mass., and Verari Systems Inc. (formerly RackSaver), in San Diego-are finding that clever innovation can make up for what they lack in size and clout."

"Our research shows that Egenera's BladeFrame system simplifies data center management, thereby requiring fewer people and reducing support costs, while providing an excellent level of system availability."

"Our recommendation is to watch for smart new offerings like the Egenera BladeFrame, which efficiently brings together CPU, storage and network resources on demand."

"The advantages of Egenera's PAN Manager are the provisioning and automation capabilities of an integrated platform. The issue has to do with IT complexity. PAN Manager is for organizations that want to simplify. The only other options are: build it yourself or outsource."

"With the HP and Sun products, resources are tied together but may not be as integrated because the server, network, and storage components come from different manufacturers. This is one reason that some companies start out with a mission to leverage IT resources but quickly realize how complex these disparate components can be and end up outsourcing or hosting remotely."

"Egenera is an early leader in virtualization, the hot tech trend aimed at taming corporate data. Instead of sprawls of special-purpose computer servers-one for Internet applications, one for e-mail and so on-a virtualized system uses one machine to do all of these functions."

"While the blade market is still in its early stages, Egenera has positioned itself as a key innovator of blade technologies and a leader in the market."

"Egenera developed its blade server and associated Processing Area Network (PAN) Manager virtualization software from scratch, which gives it an edge over larger players."

"Having the network and storage connections included in the backplane is significant. The fact that these systems have switches in them replaces a whole tier of switches in your data center."

"Egenera has a distinctive product, with a unique architecture that can deliver significant savings in operations and provisioning costs, even versus competitive blade servers for environments that require multiple connections to the enterprise SAN and IP fabric, and require provisioning of multiple high availability (HA) server clusters and/or dynamic and flexible provisioning of servers."

"Egenera's blades since their introduction have been designed for data centers. Egenera's blades are much larger and come rigged to the gills with high-availability features."

"We put Egenera in the blade server market, but the capabilities their product has are unique in the market. They have quite a bit of a lead on everybody."

"Egenera's product is not only interesting, prospects more and more frequently decide they simply have to have it."

"Egenera's at the forefront of a technology shift from proprietary systems to open standards."

"Egenera is one of the 50 private and 50 public companies most likely to change the world."

"Financial giant Credit Suisse First Boston has increased system performance twenty-fold by moving its mission-critical application infrastructure from RISC-Unix to a Lintel environment running on an Egenera BladeFrame."

"Egenera has pioneered the use of blade servers for running enterprise applications, including database and application servers."

"Through its remarkable development of server blades, Egenera can add additional processing power to a company's server farm quickly and painlessly. These servers eliminate the hassle normally involved with increasing compute power to meet demand."

"The biggest pain is having expensive personnel wire, configure or make changes to the physical infrastructure. Egenera's box minimizes the amount of physical infrastructure management."

"It's the higher-level software and vertical market expertise along with the blade architecture that has enabled Egenera to compete against giant systems vendors like HP, IBM and Sun."

"The server maker competes with larger companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. Its technology, which lets a collection of servers rapidly adjust to changing workload requirements or faulty hardware, fulfills some of the promises of the widely sought-after utility computing vision."

"It seems to be significantly less expensive than a traditional pizza-box solution. Egenera offers real advantages, both in terms of the base cost of each computing module and the ease of scalability."

"Egenera's BladeFrame system creates a pool of server resources that can be dynamically allocated and torn down as necessary. The system eliminates the need to dedicate server space for specific applications or customers."