-Leading Infrastructure Orchestration Solution Further Reduces Data Center Complexity-
MARLBORO, Mass. — January 20, 2009 — Egenera, Inc. today announced its next generation software solution for unifying virtual and physical infrastructure management, PAN Manager® software by Egenera®, release 5.2. Powerful new features including open APIs enable customers and third parties to integrate PAN Manager commands and functions into their own software suites. With an existing installed base of 1,300 licenses across 350 global customers, PAN Manager software continues to be the first choice for managing computing resources to create more efficient, reliable dynamic data centers.
PAN Manager software by Egenera is a leading solution for data center infrastructure orchestration. By logically abstracting and representing all types of computing assets, both physical and virtual, PAN Manager simplifies the data center environment while ensuring high availability and full disaster recovery. Customers worldwide standardize on PAN Manager’s reliable virtualized architecture, which is based on industry standards and supports popular hypervisors, SANs and server platforms. PAN Manager minimizes data center complexity, and reduces operational and capital expenditures by up to 70 percent.
PAN Manager Software: Core Capabilities
PAN Manager software helps IT departments manage hundreds of virtual and physical resources as a pool of assets in order to increase data center simplicity and business performance and extend failover to a broader set of computing resources with markedly lower total cost of ownership. Utilizing I/O virtualization, an intelligent fabric and a stateless environment, PAN Manager uniquely enables any x86 server configuration to be defined once and moved wherever and whenever, on the fly. With PAN Manager software, data centers are able to react in real-time to business needs, unconstrained by equipment, applications, operating systems and configurations.
New in PAN Manager Software 5.2
The major innovations in the latest release of PAN Manager software focus on simplifying manageability through an increasingly granular level of management for both virtual and physical resources. The many major new and enhanced features in PAN Manager software, release 5.2 include:
- Open APIs enabling customers or third parties to integrate PAN Manager commands and functions into their own software suites;
- Linux 2.6 kernel compatibility to run PAN Controllers for enhanced performance;
- Embedded Citrix 4.1 technology enabling Live Migration, support for Red Hat 64-bit operating systems and dynamic memory allocation;
- Support for vLAN technology enabling superior flexibility in designing computing environments within the processing area network – the PAN; and
- Support for WinPE 2.1 enabling customers to utilize industry standard tools to manage their Microsoft operating system deployments and provisioning.
“Egenera remains ahead of the competition in providing a unified management platform for virtual and physical environments,” said Pete Manca, executive vice president of engineering and CTO at Egenera. “The innovation in our next-generation PAN Manager software is a significant step forward in simplifying the growing levels of complexity that plague today’s data centers.”
Availability
PAN Manager software by Egenera, release 5.2, is available immediately. More information is available by calling (1) 508-858-2600.
