Industry Analyst Reports

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Industry Reports

Egenera: Virtualization for the Dynamic Data Center

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IDC takes a close look at Egenera's business and technology strategies, where the company fits in with "Virtualization 2.0" and how customers are deriving business value from Egenera solutions.

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SAVVIS Leverages Virtualization to Reshape Managed Services

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The concept of utility computing has long been propagated in the technology industry. While a powerful vision, implementations have been primarily limited to early adopters. One of those adopters, SAVVIS, has been offering a utility computing service since 2004. The company is using this offering to differentiate itself in the hosting market by lowering cost and improving service levels for customers relative to traditional managed services. SAVVIS is leveraging the Egenera BladeFrame system and Egenera PAN Manager software as key elements of its Utility Compute platform.

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Blade Perfect: An Assessment of Egenera System Availability

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This report analyzes the BladeFrame's availability capabilities in detail by applying the Standish Group's Architectural Readiness for Maintaining Operational Resources (ARMOR) criteria to the product. The Standish Group initiated the ARMOR research project to help organizations achieve the best continuity of business operations that is possible within their cost and ROI restrictions.

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451 Group: 'V' for Virtualization: Transforming the datacenter, driving M&A

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The purpose of the report is threefold: to forecast how this market will take shape over the next two years; to analyze gaps in the portfolios of large companies that are staking claims here; and to provide a taxonomy of privately held and venture-backed startups that could fill those gaps. In this instance, The 451 Group looked at server virtualization and its ecosystem; in future, we will turn the same analytical eye on other sectors of the enterprise IT market where virtualization is changing everything.

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451 Group: Does Savvis' Utility Platform realize a virtualized services vision?

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Hosting and managed network services provider Savvis Communications believes it has created a fully virtualized, global IT Utility Platform that will ultimately support all its hosted customers to one degree or another.

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iCCS: Egenera Data Center Virtualization provides compelling advantages for users of SAP Solutions

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This paper discusses how the Egenera BladeFrame  solution, using the Intel Architecture and its Xeon platform, enables data center virtualization, offering compelling benefits for customers with an SAP solution-based environment.

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Egenera BladeFrame Exchange 2003 Performance Load Test

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During the fall of 2004, Accenture and Avanade jointly proposed to provide the design, engineering and implementation of an enterprise messaging environment for a large messaging opportunity based on Microsoft Exchange 2003. The technical design offered a high availability/high density infrastructure based on the Microsoft Exchange 2003 High Volume Exchange (HVE) architecture that was showcased by Microsoft. Initially, the team's design did not utilize blade server technology to provide messaging and supporting infrastructure services. However, based on potential improvements that could be derived through utilization of the Egenera BladeFrame, the technical team performed an assessment of the viability of leveraging this technology to support the customer's requirements.

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Gaining Control of Complexity

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This document describes the datacenter markup language (DCML), a structured XMLbased format for describing the contents of datacenters and the policies governing the management of those contents. DCML describes blueprints for constructing managed environments, the knowledge necessary to turn those blueprints into an environment instance and the resulting environment.

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Network World Special Report: Datacenter Virtualization

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Let's face it. Your datacenter is a problem area. Your server utilization rate is low, administration costs are high, uptime isn't what it could be, and it can take weeks to deploy a new application. Plus, senior management thinks of the datacenter as a big money pit. But what if you could change all that? What if you could get server utilization up to 70% or 80%? What if an administrator who manages 30 servers could manage 100 or 200 servers?

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Simplifying Datacenter Complexity

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As datacenter environments grow increasingly complex, CIOs and datacenter managers must balance new tools and technologies with increasing uptime, controlling costs and enhancing their capabilities. Now, there is an essential new standard that can help organizations realize the promise of utility computing and meet critical datacenter management objectives.

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