Egenera Value Proposition
Egenera Reduces Complexity
Egenera Improves Agility
Egenera Improves Availability
Egenera Lowers TCO
Data center complexity is caused by legacy server architecture, which ties applications to specific physical servers and results in high costs due to:
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Overprovisioning for peak loads, high availability and disaster recovery
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Low utilization of just 15 to 20 percent
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Excessive expenses for space, power and cooling
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Personnel-intensive management
Complexity also undermines business agility, making it difficult to capitalize on opportunities and respond to challenges.
The Egenera system—a data center virtualization architecture in an integrated platform of hardware and software—reduces complexity by 80 percent.
Egenera enables IT to meet business demands in minutes or hours instead of weeks or months.
A new server can be installed and deployed—including automated configuration of the software stack—in less than three minutes.
Servers can be repurposed on demand. The system can automatically identify applications that are underpowered or overpowered and reallocate capacity on the fly.
Complexity means thousands of failure points, both physical components and network connections, decreasing overall availability.
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Egenera eliminates most failure points by reducing the number of devices and server components.
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Automated, lights-out management and self-correcting diagnostics minimize physical interaction with equipment.
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A single failover server can back up multiple production servers, making high availability cost-effective for every application.
Egenera's data center virtualization architecture cuts capital and operating costs in half according to customers.
One thousand discrete servers can be replaced with just 10 BladeFrame systems, decreasing server count by 75 percent. This consolidation lowers TCO by reducing server and networking hardware, software license fees, maintenance fees and system administration.
Customers also spend less for power, floor space and cooling.
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