—Egenera BladeFrame Listed in Red Hat Hardware Catalog—
Marlboro, Mass.—May 9, 2005—Egenera Inc., a leader in utility computing, today announced that it has earned membership in the Red Hat Advanced Partner Program and that the Egenera® BladeFrame® system and all Egenera Processing BladeTM configurations have been listed in the Red Hat Hardware Catalog as compatible and supported platforms.
"We are delighted to bring our customers this added level of assurance that Egenera and Red Hat are closely aligned in meeting their most demanding datacenter requirements," said Susan Davis, vice president of marketing and product management at Egenera. "We intend to continue strengthening this long-standing alliance as an increasing number of world-class enterprises adopt the BladeFrame system."
"Red Hat has long maintained that the Egenera BladeFrame represents an important new paradigm in computing architectures," said Deb Woods, vice president of product management at Red Hat. "As a market leader in utility computing, Egenera has earned the strategic relationship with Red Hat that the Advanced Hardware Partner Program offers. We are pleased to welcome them and to certify the BladeFrame platform."
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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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