—Utility Computing Leader Honored for Market Traction, Innovation and Disruptive Technology—
Marlboro, Mass.—June 28, 2005—Egenera Inc., a global leader in utility computing, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. Egenera was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on five criteria—innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.
The AO 100 was selected from more than 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development, from early to late stage.
For enterprises that have built up complex, static and underutilized IT infrastructures that stifle responsiveness, the Egenera® BladeFrame® system simplifies the datacenter to lower costs and improve business agility. Unlike legacy vendors, Egenera has designed a new server architecture purpose-built to minimize complexity and fluidly align resources with application demand. Benefits include more rapid time to market, better application availability, faster application response time and lower total cost of ownership.
"The AO 100 companies are shaping today's Web-driven, connected environment," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "We were inundated with nominations from leading companies, many of which I hope will appear on our list next year. My congratulations to each AO 100 winner—these are the companies which we predict will have the greatest market traction, strongest innovation and most game-changing approaches this year."
"Egenera is indeed changing the game in computing, freeing enterprises from proprietary legacy technologies that stifle business agility," said Bob Dutkowsky, chairman, president and CEO of Egenera. "The AO 100 recognizes the value that disruptive technologies such as the Egenera BladeFrame system bring to market; we're pleased to be named to this prestigious list for a third consecutive year."
The AO 100 will be honored at the AO2005: Innovation Summit at a VIP reception at 5.00 p.m. on July 19, 2005 at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif.
Press Contacts
Nancy Keswani
Egenera, Inc.
508-858-2605
nkeswani@egenera.com
Gillian Farquhar
Greenough Communications
617-275-6514
gillian@greenoughcom.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.
ALWAYSON is transforming the communication business with its online blogging network, establishing it as a leader in the Open Media revolution. Borrowing from the underground traditions of blogging and social networking, ALWAYSON (http://www.alwayson-network.com/) was launched in 2003. Today, AO's annual Summit @ Stanford and OnHollywood events, print "blogozine" and online services encourage direct collaboration between global thought leaders and technology insiders. No other media brand has dared allow such openness amongst its readers and participants. ALWAYSON, LLC, is a privately held and virtually headquartered company born out of the heart of Silicon Valley.
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