--BladeFrame Interoperability Validated with EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON Storage Systems--
Marlboro, Mass.--November 11, 2003--Egenera Inc., the leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, today announced that Release 3.0 of its EgeneraTM BladeFrame® system has been qualified by EMC Corporation as E-Lab TestedTM. This qualification ensures customers that the BladeFrame is fully interoperable with EMC Symmetrix® and CLARiiON® CX networked storage systems.
The E-Lab Tested qualification process is a series of exhaustive functionality and reliability tests to ensure the interoperability of all components that make up a multi-vendor information storage network. For Egenera customers, this designation provides assurance that EMC will fully support configurations in which Symmetrix and/or CLARiiON CX storage systems are used in conjunction with the BladeFrame.
"EMC offers the highest level of interoperability assurance through the E-Lab with its automated networked storage solutions," said Chuck Hollis, vice president of markets and products at EMC. "E-Lab Tested assures customers that the Egenera BladeFrame system is fully interoperable with EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON CX networked storage systems, enabling customers to deploy storage infrastructures with confidence."
"Increasingly, enterprise-class datacenters are seeking to increase agility and lower costs through resource virtualization and utility computing," explained Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "Combining EMC's Storage Area Network (SAN) technology with the BladeFrame Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture creates pooled resources that can be allocated to applications as needed, quantifiably improving utilization. The E-Lab Tested qualification assures customers that EMC will fully support both its Symmetrix and CLARiiON platforms in the BladeFrame environment, making the promise of next-generation computing even more compelling."
The Egenera BladeFrame platform, with its Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture, assembles purpose-built hardware and virtualization software in a fully integrated computing system that enables enterprise-class datacenters to lower total cost of ownership and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. The system combines the scalability of blade servers 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.
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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 blade server technology and virtualization software by enabling datacenters to run any application, on any resource, at any time, automatically. Today, the Egenera BladeFrame solution is 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. Cooperative business alliances 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.
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