Validated Solution Delivers High Availability to Egenera BladeFrame Customers
BELLEVUE, Wash.—October 27, 2005— GoAhead® Software, the expert in building integrated middleware for highly available systems, today announced that it has joined the Egenera® Accelerate Alliance program as an Assured Solution Alliance member. Through rigorous testing, Egenera has validated SelfReliant®-GoAhead's application-ready, high availability platform-on the Egenera BladeFrame® system.
GoAhead provides standards-based, commercial-off-the-shelf solutions to telecom equipment manufacturers and military/aerospace contractors requiring 99.999% or greater availability. SelfReliant is now deployed on more than 6000 units worldwide. Combined with Egenera's BladeFrame system, a new server architecture specifically designed to reduce the complexity of datacenter infrastructure and enable a highly responsive business, the two solutions allow equipment providers to reduce operational expenditures, accelerate time to market and lower project risk.
"Our customers are looking for ways to reduce costs while increasing competitive advantage," said Mike Thompson, chief operating officer, Egenera. "GoAhead SelfReliant helps customers derive even more value from an Egenera BladeFrame deployment by providing a validated platform for applications requiring the highest levels of availability."
The BladeFrame system simplifies the management of server infrastructures, lowering total cost of ownership through server virtualization. The BladeFrame's Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture dynamically allocates and repurposes servers to applications as needed, realizing the promise of utility computing: any application, any resource, any time, automatically.
"Partnering with Egenera is another achievement in providing customers with an application-ready platform," said Asif Naseem, GoAhead senior vice president and CTO. "This allows equipment manufacturers to move up the stack and redirect precious resources to the value-added application layer."
GoAhead® Software is the expert in building integrated middleware for telecom 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. And with more than 6,000 units deployed around the globe, GoAhead delivers the software and the expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects such as wireless base station controllers, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers. GoAhead is a privately held company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information on GoAhead, visit the company's web site at www.goahead.com or call 425-453-1900.
Press Contacts: Nancy Keswani
Egenera, Inc.
508-858-2605
nkeswani@egenera.com
Lacy Williams
GoAhead Software
425-468-5417
lwilliams@goahead.com
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