Detail How the Virtual Datacenter is a Reality for Customers Today
BOSTON, Mass. — April 4, 2006 — Today at LinuxWorld, Egenera will premier its eight-core Processing BladeTM module based on dual-core Intel® Xeon® multi-processor technology in Intel's booth at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Intel's new dual-core processor incorporates Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT), which provides silicon-level support for CPU virtualization and delivers more than 60 percent performance gains over previous generations. The premier demo will be shown at Intel Booth #812, April 4-6 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Virtualization has become a strategic tool across the datacenter — from storage and networking virtualization, to processors, servers and application virtualization. The goal of these technologies is to break the fixed bonds between elements in order to enable a much more flexible and responsive datacenter environment. With the advent of virtualization technologies, customers are challenged with how to manage all of these new virtual components and ensure a highly-available infrastructure — as hundreds of servers turn into thousands of virtual machines and multiple applications rely on an individual server. Egenera dramatically reduces datacenter complexity in the new virtual environment and provides out-of-the box high-availability. With the Egenera® BladeFrame® system, customers can easily take advantage of the efficiency and performance enhancements that Intel VT technology provides when used with hypervisors such as Xen. The virtual datacenter is becoming a reality, as companies including Intel and Egenera work together to provide seamless offerings.
Within the Egenera BladeFrame system, Processing Blades are diskless, anonymous and interchangeable — enabling automated allocation, repurposing and failover since any server can immediately assume the identity of any other server. The Egenera BladeFrame system virtualizes 80 percent of the I/O devices on a legacy server, delivering unparalleled flexibility and reliability. In addition, a single Egenera BladeFrame system can simultaneously run Processing Blades with various processor architectures and operating systems, enabling customers to automatically align computing resources to application requirements and scale performance dramatically and dynamically.
Managing the Virtual Datacenter: Intel Booth #812 In addition to the ongoing demos, Egenera executives will outline how customers are managing their virtual datacenters, reducing complexity and achieving high-availability out-of-the box at two presentations in Intel's Booth #812:
- Wednesday, April 5 at 4:00 p.m.
- Thursday, April 6 at 3:00 p.m.
Press Contact
Gillian Farquhar
Egenera, Inc.
508-858-3262
gfarquhar@egenera.com
Egenera is a global leader in delivering computing solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera BladeFrame product family 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. More information is available at www.egenera.com.
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