--Egenera's BladeFrame Running Oracle's Next-Generation Database Technology Provides Cost-Effective Solution to Manage Complex Datacenters--
Marlboro, Mass.--September 9, 2003--Egenera Inc., the leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, announced today that its BladeFrame® system has been thoroughly tested to support the Oracle® Database 10g. By incorporating these latest product advancements from Oracle, Egenera continues to provide users of the BladeFrame with an ideal platform at a substantially lower cost for dynamic, utility-based datacenter environments.
As a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Egenera participated in the Oracle Database 10g Beta program, which was designed to give participants an early look at some of the new key systems-management and grid features of Oracle Database 10g. The Company will be showcasing the BladeFrame running Oracle Database 10g at OracleWorld in San Francisco, Calif., from September 7-11, 2003. During the show, Intel Corporation will be hosting the BladeFrame in its booth, No. 1512.
The Egenera BladeFrame's Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture, which assembles purpose-built hardware and virtualization software in a fully integrated computing environment, provides an optimal platform to leverage the new grid capabilities from Oracle through its database and application server products. The BladeFrame's virtualization characteristics provide the simplicity needed to dramatically accelerate the deployment of a grid infrastructure. With a single-source grid infrastructure, there are no complex integration services needed to build and manage the enterprise environment, reducing overall operating expenses.
"The BladeFrame is ideally suited to run mission-critical database applications. Through our support of the Oracle Database 10g, BladeFrame customers can realize more grid-like functions at the application layer while gaining more flexibility to manage their infrastructures," said Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "Our customers demand cutting-edge applications, and the BladeFrame's virtualization capabilities allow us to provide the most sophisticated systems on the market today."
"Partners such as Egenera that integrate their technology and test for performance, interoperability and scalability have proven very beneficial to our mutual customers running on Oracle Database 10g," said Robert Shimp, vice president, Database Marketing at Oracle. "We believe this feature-rich new version of the database delivers the performance and quality enhancements that increase the value BladeFrame customers require in their database platform when building and deploying enterprise infrastructures."
The Egenera BladeFrame, with its Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture, assembles purpose-built hardware and virtualization software in a fully integrated computing platform that enables enterprise-class datacenters to lower total cost of ownership and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. The system combines the scalability of server blades and the price/performance of commodity components with mainframe-class functionality, enabling customers to leverage Linux® and Microsoft® Windows® for mission-critical applications. The BladeFrame creates a pool of up to 96 server-class Intel processors on 24 Egenera Processing BladeTM resources that are deployed and managed entirely through Egenera PAN ManagerTM software. Processing power can be dynamically increased, decreased and reallocated to support new applications or accommodate variable demand on existing applications without purchasing, installing or managing incremental equipment.
Press Contacts
Nancy Herzog
Egenera, Inc.
508-858-2605
nherzog@egenera.com
Monica Pandolfi
SHIFT Communications, Inc.
617-681-1235
mpandolfi@shiftcomm.com
Egenera's breakthrough virtualization technology optimizes the use of network, compute and storage resources to enable the next-generation utility datacenter. The Company's Egenera BladeFrame system leads the industry in both server blade technology and virtualization software by enabling datacenters to run any application, on any resource, at any time, automatically. Today, BladeFrames are installed at marquee customers worldwide, including many of the world's largest investment banks, major Internet service providers, telecommunications companies, healthcare providers and government agencies. A world-class service and support organization ensures customer satisfaction. Moreover, the Company has assembled a senior management team and engineering staff with an average 20-plus years' experience. Relationships with Microsoft, Intel, BEA Systems, EMC, Itochu Techno-Science Corporation (CTC), Oracle, Red Hat and Veritas, among others, further strengthen the value proposition. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Hong Kong, Kansas City, London, New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington D.C. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600.
Egenera, Egenera stylized logos, BladeFrame, PAN Manager and Processing Blade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Egenera, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. The information in this document is subject to change without notice.
