—Roster of industry leaders grows to enhance business value for customers—
MARLBORO, Mass. — June 7, 2006 — Egenera Inc., a global leader in utility computing, today welcomed four new members to the Egenera Alliance program, a strategic initiative designed to ensure that customers derive maximum value from their Egenera® BladeFrame® system deployments. Through rigorous testing in Egenera labs, Citrix Systems, GoAhead Software, TeamQuest Corporation and Zeus Technology have qualified as Assured Solution Alliance members, validating applications running on Egenera® systems. Joint customers receive installation and tuning parameters designed to optimize performance, and benefit from a coordinated response to support requirements.
Citrix Systems is a universal leader and trusted name in on-demand access. More than 160,000 organizations around the world use the Citrix® Access Platform to provide the best possible access experience to any application for any user. Citrix customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 and 98 percent of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and individuals.
Working together, Egenera and Citrix enable customers to address broader IT access challenges through highly-available and rapid access to applications and services. Egenera is also a member of the Citrix Technology Alliance Program.
GoAhead® Software is an expert in building integrated middleware for telecommunications equipment manufacturers and military/aerospace equipment contractors requiring extremely high availability. By providing a fully integrated, application-ready platform, GoAhead products and services help equipment manufacturers achieve faster time to market and lower development costs. With more than 6,000 units deployed around the globe, GoAhead delivers the software and expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects, such as wireless base station controllers, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers.
Through comprehensive testing, GoAhead's application-ready, high-availability platform, SelfReliant®, has been validated to run on the Egenera BladeFrame system. Combined, the two solutions allow equipment providers to reduce operational expenditures, accelerate time-to-market and lower project risk.
"Joining Egenera's Alliance Program is another milestone in providing customers with an application-ready platform," said Asif Naseem, GoAhead senior vice president and CTO. "Our combined solutions enable equipment manufacturers to move up the stack and redirect precious resources to the value-added application layer."
TeamQuest Corporation is a global leader in IT service optimization (ITSO). Specializing in software that helps companies consistently deliver IT services to meet service levels at a minimum cost, TeamQuest provides quick and accurate capacity modeling and performance solutions. Companies around the world trust TeamQuest to help improve service delivery while mitigating risk, allowing them to proactively optimize IT resources while minimizing IT infrastructure costs.
TeamQuest Model is an effective solution to justify the cost/benefit of moving toward Egenera technology and server consolidation. TeamQuest Model uses analytic modeling capabilities to quickly and accurately predict the impact of changes without the need to configure any hardware or apply artificial loads. This allows IT to consistently meet agreed-upon service levels and decrease costs without wasting resources. Together, TeamQuest and Egenera provide greater availability and cost-effective solutions for customers.
"TeamQuest offers IT Service Optimization solutions that help organizations move from reactionary IT management to proactive IT management," said Jerred Ruble, TeamQuest CEO. "Egenera's products and services complement TeamQuest's solutions to ensure exceptional performance and competitive advantages."
Zeus Technology is leading innovation in application traffic management software. With more than ten years' industry experience, the company has developed award-winning solutions that enable organizations to manage, secure and accelerate their applications, improving business responsiveness through more intelligent application delivery.
The Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM), qualified to run on the Egenera system, is a market-leading software solution for businesses needing application continuity. The ZXTM product range provides centralized control and resilience for applications, and ensures swift and seamless interaction between Web-enabled application services. Combined with the Egenera system, Zeus Technology streamlines business processes, adds value and resilience to existing systems, and enhances end-user experience.
"In today's complex datacenter environment, organizations can no longer rely on manual effort to provision resources in the most cost-effective and timely manner," said Paul Di Leo, CEO, Zeus. "The powerful combination of Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager running on the Egenera system will enable dynamic provisioning of resources, ensuring high availability of business-critical applications at all times. Zeus is pleased to be working with Egenera to reduce complexity, improve business responsiveness and streamline operations, enabling our customers to significantly reduce costs and increase efficiency."
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Egenera, Inc.
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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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