Marlboro, Mass.—August 2, 2004—Egenera Inc., a leader in utility computing, has expanded its line of Egenera® Processing BladeTM configurations with its highest- performance two-way offering to date. Available immediately, this Processing Blade incorporates the Intel® XeonTM processor, Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T), announced by Intel today.
Specifically, the new blade contains two 3.60 GHz Intel EM64T processors with an 800 MHz front-side bus, and supports 8GB of DDR2 memory. DDR2, the next-generation evolution of DDR memory technology, features faster speeds, higher data bandwidths, lower power consumption and enhanced thermal performance.
"Our customers typically run mission-critical and compute-intensive applications on the BladeFrame® system. We select high-performing Intel server processors in order to meet these requirements and to offer a broad line of Processing Blade options for the enterprise," said Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "With its 64-bit memory addressability, EM64T technology also enables the large memory configurations needed for database applications running on the Egenera platform."
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Egenera designs, markets and supports an enterprise-class datacenter computing platform, the Egenera BladeFrame system, which enables our customers to implement utility computing. This model, which we believe represents the next major transformation of the datacenter environment, enables users to dynamically allocate resources to applications on an as-needed basis. Today, BladeFrame platforms are installed at customers worldwide, including America Online, Cambridge Health Alliance, Credit Suisse First Boston, Emory Healthcare, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, MChex, SAVVIS Communications, UFJ Group and others. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices in or around Atlanta, Chicago, Hong Kong, Kansas City, London, New York City, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo and Washington D.C. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600.
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