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Gillian Farquhar
Egenera, Inc.
508-858-3262
gfarquhar@egenera.com

Egenera Gears Up for Oracle OpenWorld

MARLBORO, Mass.—October 18, 2006— Egenera, Inc., a global leader in datacenter virtualization architecture, today outlined widespread participation at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld conference. Egenera will exhibit from its corporate booth #3127 West, and will also participate in several breakout sessions, live demos and speaking engagements throughout the week. Oracle OpenWorld runs October 22-26 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif.

Exhibition:

  • Egenera Corporate: Booth #3127 West
  • Egenera with AMD: Booth #702 South
  • Egenera with Novell: Booth #3602 West Breakout Sessions:
  • Egenera and Oracle presenting, "Enterprise Manager 10g System Monitoring Plug-in for Hardware: Integrated Management of Egenera® BladeFrame® systems and Oracle Grid Control" on Monday, October 23 at 3:00 p.m. PST in Mini Theater 2, room #3856 West.
  • Egenera presenting, "Silo-Busting: Deploying Oracle Grid Computing on the Egenera BladeFrame system" on Wednesday, October 25 at 4:00 p.m. PST in room #302.

Presentations:

  • Egenera presenting, "10g RAC and Fusion Solutions Enabled with Egenera's Grid Infrastructure" on Monday, October 23 at 5:00 p.m. PST and Wednesday, October 25 at 1:00 p.m. PST—both in Novell's booth, #3602 West.
  • Egenera presenting, "Facilitating Your Fusion Architecture" on Wednesday, October 25 at 11:30 a.m. PST. in AMD's booth, #702 South.

Demos:

Egenera will showcase several Oracle-specific demonstrations in its own booth #3127 West and in AMD's booth #702 South.

  • Oracle/Egenera Grid Ready Infrastructure Demonstration
    How to manage the Oracle 10g Grid environment on demand. Attendees will learn how to add and subtract 10g Fusion middleware servers in the Oracle Grid.
  • Managing Infrastructure Performance Through Oracle Enterprise Manager
    Demonstration on how to seamlessly monitor the performance of Egenera hardware infrastructure through Oracle Enterprise Manager.
  • Building a Virtual Server (pServer)
    Demonstration on how to quickly and easily provision a new virtual server (pServer) using Egenera® PAN ManagerTM software. Attendees will learn the step-by-step process for creating a new server, booting-up and failing over to a pool of available resources.

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 a Certified Advanced Oracle Partner and Oracle is a member of the Egenera Enterprise Technology Alliance Program.

Media and Industry Analysts
Media and industry analysts interested in meeting with Egenera executives or scheduling demos are invited to contact Gillian Farquhar at 508-858-3262 or gfarquhar@egenera.com.

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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