Marlboro, Mass.—April 19, 2005—Egenera Inc., a global leader in utility computing, today announced that its Egenera® BladeFrame® system running Intel® processors has been qualified by Reuters to run Reuters Market Data System (RMDS).
"Egenera systems have been deployed by many of the leading firms on Wall Street to run mission-critical applications such as equities trading, order routing and valuation modeling," commented Susan Davis, vice president of marketing and product management at Egenera. "In these environments, RMDS provides low-latency data used for real-time financial decisions. We're pleased to offer our customers the performance and reliability enabled by running on the BladeFrame."
"As a part of our ongoing efforts to assure availability of the latest technologies and partners for our customers' RMDS environments, Reuters has implemented a hardware-qualification program," explained Bob Sampson, RMDS product manager, Reuters. "Egenera was quick to take advantage of this program to ensure that its hardware withstood the rigorous testing and qualification requirements that benefit our mutual clients."
For sophisticated, dynamic enterprises that have built up complex, static and underutilized IT infrastructures, the Egenera BladeFrame system simplifies the datacenter and reduces operational complexity. With the BladeFrame, Egenera has introduced a new server architecture-proven in mission-critical environments-that allows customers to scale, increase performance, virtually provision workloads, and attach to networks and storage more efficiently.
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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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