Marlboro, Mass.—May 10, 2005—Egenera Inc., a leader in utility computing, today announced that The Standish Group has qualified the Egenera® BladeFrame® as "a very high availability system." Complete findings are presented in a recently released Standish Group Special Report, "Blade Perfect: An Assessment of Egenera System Availability."
"Our research shows that Egenera's BladeFrame system simplifies datacenter management, thereby requiring fewer people and reducing support costs, while providing an excellent level of system availability," said Dr. Sidnie Feit, Chief Scientist, The Standish Group International Inc.
The study notes that the BladeFrame has "an innovative architecture that is radically different from blade systems marketed by HP, IBM or Dell." Egenera customers interviewed by Standish confirmed that BladeFrame systems "are highly available, support rapid deployment of applications and improve utilization." Customers also rated BladeFrame availability as "far better than that of systems such as the HP Superdome or Sun Fire NK servers," with one citing Egenera's ease of deployment and operation as "huge money savers."
"We're always pleased when credible, third-party researchers like The Standish Group validate the BladeFrame's ability to lower datacenter costs while improving application availability and business agility," said Susan Davis, vice president of marketing and product management, Egenera. "But we're even more gratified by the feedback Standish received from our world-class customers, and we remain committed to providing them with market-leading utility computing solutions that simplify their IT environments."
The BladeFrame system was evaluated using The Standish Group's Architectural Readiness for Maintaining Operational Resources (ARMOR) criteria in seven key areas: hardware and architecture, system software, operations, networks, serviceability, applications and site catastrophe. The ARMOR research project was designed to help organizations optimize continuity of business operations within individual cost and ROI restrictions.
For access to the complete Standish Group Special Report, please visit www.egenera.com/reg/reg_standish_pdf.html.
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Nancy Keswani
Egenera, Inc.
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Greenough Communications
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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.
The Standish Group International Inc. is a research advisory firm built on a solid foundation of primary research techniques. Through proactive advice, case-based reasoning tools and monthly statistical deliverables, Standish delivers custom research services for the cost of a general research service. Founded in 1989, Standish is headquartered in West Yarmouth, Mass. For more information, visit www.standishgroup.com.
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