—10 Node Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g Scalability Benchmark—
—Previews New Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g—
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—October 24, 2006—Today at Oracle® OpenWorld, Egenera released the results of an extensive joint benchmark with Oracle demonstrating Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g scalability up to 10 nodes. Egenera is focused on large-scale Oracle RAC deployments as evidenced by its enterprise customers typically running four or more nodes. Egenera will detail its ease of linear scalability with both AMD- and Intel-based processors in a soon to be released whitepaper outlining scalability of more than 90 percent with 10 nodes (http://www.egenera.com/products-white-papers.htm). This will validate previously released throughput statistics for Oracle Applications on the Egenera® BladeFrame® system. The whitepaper will be available the final week of October.
In addition, in order to enable better on-demand performance management of large-scale Oracle Fusion environments across the entire Grid Infrastructure, Egenera is previewing a new Plug-in for Oracle® Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control. The new Plug-in Extension monitors and evaluates performance of Egenera-specific datacenter components, encompassing both physical hardware metrics and BladeFrame system traffic. This allows for more efficient and seamless Grid management across the entire infrastructure stack. The new Plug-in is being demonstrated at Egenera's booth 3127 West at Oracle OpenWorld.
In September of 2005, the Egenera BladeFrame system was selected as a North America Titan Partner Solution of the Year—signifying its value to customers deploying Oracle solutions. As part of the companies' longstanding alliance, Egenera and Oracle jointly offer multiple Accelerator Services including Egenera/Oracle Grid Accelerator Service and Oracle-on-Egenera 10g Database Accelerator Service. The joint Accelerator Services minimize customer risk by eliminating complexity in implementing high-availability, enterprise infrastructures through pre-tested, validated and integrated support. Customers are able to improve their return on investment and performance by leveraging the full functionality of Egenera and Oracle technologies. Egenera is an Oracle PartnerNetwork Certified Partner and Oracle is a member of the Egenera Enterprise Technology Alliance Program.
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.
About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of 17,700 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer to their customers, leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle can qualify for the Oracle Certified Partner levels.
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