--Red Hat Certifies EgeneraTM BladeFrameTM System--
Marlboro, Mass.—September 10, 2001— Egenera, Inc., a data center infrastructure company, today announced certification of the Egenera BladeFrame as fully compatible with Red Hat Linux, signifying that the system has passed all Red Hat Hardware Certification tests and related requirements. This milestone ensures customers that all Red Hat-compatible ISV (independent software vendor) applications run "out of the box" on the BladeFrame. In addition, Egenera has gained entry into Red Hat's Certified System Program.
"To meet the requirements of enterprise-class data centers, we have optimized Red Hat Linux for the BladeFrame system's innovative Processing Area Network architecture," said Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and management, Egenera, Inc. "Working together, Egenera and Red Hat can deliver the high availability, industry standards and cost-of-ownership advantages customers demand from a Linux platform."
"We are pleased to have Egenera in our Certified Partner Program," said Dr. James Neiser, chief marketing officer, Red Hat, Inc. "We believe that Egenera's Processing Area Network running on Red Hat Linux will resolve multiple customer pain points and represents an important new paradigm in computing architectures."
The Egenera BladeFrame and its Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture deliver a new approach to computing by consolidating and simplifying the allocation and management of processing capacity. Purpose-built for large enterprises and service providers with mission-critical operations, the patent-pending technology integrates hardware, software, networking and services to resolve major data center pain points from a single platform. Leveraging the Red Hat Linux operating system, the BladeFrame creates a pool of up to 96 server-class Intel® processors on 24 Egenera Processing BladeTM resources that are deployable entirely through Egenera PAN ManagerTM software. Thus, 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. Beta testing of the BladeFrame system is underway; general availability is planned for the fall 2001 timeframe.
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Egenera, Inc.
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Egenera is pioneering a next-generation approach to data center computing by integrating hardware, software, networking and services into simple, yet powerful machines. The Company seeks to help service providers and large enterprises reduce application time-to-market, keep applications online, improve data center management and lower total cost of ownership. Founded in March 2000 and privately held, Egenera will couple its breakthrough technology with an innovative service model customized for the data center environment. For more information, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600.
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