Customer Testimonials
"Without using vBlade software we would certainly have had to add hardware and resources to the environment, but vBlade allows us to accomplish everything we need with the same number of Egenera Processing Blades and staff. At the end of the day, we couldn’t find another solution that could do all the things that Egenera can do, from hardware consolidation to ease of use and agility.”
Tony Rigby, Information Systems Manager
Betfair
"The business units served by our New York data center need IT infrastructure that can respond rapidly to changing market conditions. At the same time, the mission-critical applications we support require uncompromised reliability. Through its PAN architecture and unique virtualization capabilities, Egenera gives us the confidence to move our most important services to an open source, non-proprietary platform and to repurpose resources on-the-fly."
Richard Arenaro, vice president, Information Technology,
Commerzbank
"We felt the architecture will give us a competitive advantage. It allows us to move on to more strategic opportunities instead of spending time managing a lot of boxes, and it will allow us to decommission a lot of hardware as well."
Steve Yatko, CTO, Global Application Development,
Credit Suisse First Boston
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"Over-provisioning was something we did for peace of mind with our former legacy architecture. Egenera vBlade software now gives us the ability to automatically provision resources depending on the workload, avoiding the issue of underutilization. Egenera is the cornerstone of our new technology approach and our standard going forward."
"The tightly integrated, single management domain for both the physical and virtual environment has been incredibly valuable to our existing business. With Egenera vBlade software, we're able to reconfigure on the fly and provision servers at least 50 percent faster than with our former solution."
Jim Saricos, Director of Data and Performance Management
ExactTarget
“I came to Farm Bureau-WCS from a UNIX background. I didn’t get half the functionality that Egenera provides for the cost. Based on what we’ve seen and experienced with Egenera – from technical capabilities to customer service and TCO – there was no reason to consider anything else.”
“During one of our DR tests with Egenera, we had the application up and running again in three minutes. I’ve had experiences where even under planned power downs we would build-in two to three weeks to failover complex, legacy systems – and the actual move would have taken seven hours.”
“With Egenera – in concert with 3PAR storage – we were able to literally push a button and everything was up and running again. The speed that we now have to get customers back online again is amazing.”
James Crum, Manager, Infrastructure Technology Services
Farm Bureau-Western Computer Services, Inc.
"When launched in 2004, GXS Trading Grid was a truly visionary platform, taking GXS beyond its legacy as a traditional value added network and bringing customers new value in the forms of supply chain visibility, improved B2B functionality and greater efficiencies in cross-business processes. Through its contribution to the GXS Trading Grid platform, Egenera is helping us take that vision to the next level, building high availability solutions for our customers and improving the security and integrity of our customers' transactions."
Bob Kamba, CIO and Senior Vice President, Global Operations
GXS
“At the time we were evaluating Egenera, server consolidation was not yet widespread. However, reducing our data center footprint by consolidating servers was our number one challenge. After comparing a great number of systems on all possible criteria, we chose the Egenera BladeFrame.”
“The Egenera system was definitely superior to other platforms when it comes to high availability and disaster recovery. Ultimately, we plan to migrate all applications to the Egenera BladeFrame.”
Hiroshi Yagi, Server Solution Division, Corporate IDC Solution Division
Matsushita Electric Works Information Systems
"Several of the leading vendors had taken their standard box, reduced the form factor and put it in a chassis. But I was looking for a system with unique virtualization capabilities, designed from the ground up to improve upon standard servers. To me, virtualization means having a rack of processing power and deciding how I want to use it at any point in time. Because they contain nothing but processors and memory, Egenera blades give us that flexibility."
Tom Torre, Vice President and General Manager
Metavante Healthcare Payment Solutions
"Supporting any mission critical system means the platform has to be low-latency, scalable, secure and always available - those are givens. But we also knew we needed a better way to get more out of our infrastructure - dynamically reallocating resources as needed, depending on the time of day or night. Egenera proved they could meet all of our growing needs. Every move we make from a technology perspective has to accommodate our growth, as well as entry into new markets. We see Egenera as a key platform moving forward with other strategic applications and initiatives."
Christopher Chapin, VP of Infrastructure Services
Pioneer Investments
“Of all the vendors we looked at, Egenera was the only solution that provided maximum uptime and availability while simultaneously serving as a secure platform for Oracle RAC. With Egenera, we’ll develop and roll out our Oracle-based, revenue-generating applications faster than ever. Deploying RAC nodes used to take up to four weeks with the previous architecture and now it takes less than four hours on Egenera.”
“The concepts that Egenera puts into practice makes a lot of sense, for instance managing servers from a single console. Our previous architecture didn’t have a server management system that let us easily get down to every component of the system, but Egenera lets us do that simply and effectively. We can add and remove hardware with the click of a button and right-size an application without having to deploy new hardware every time a configuration needs to change. The database administrators have found Egenera to be an easier way of doing things and have fully embraced the solution and technology. Egenera has made a significant difference in our data center efficiency and agility.”
Bryan Rood, Director of Internet Data Center Services
Quantros
"The key criterion during the evaluation phase was ease of management. Additionally, we were assessing a number of intangible measurements including how easy it was to install the system and how quickly the staff could master the technology. The results with Egenera were immediate and exceeded expectations right from the start.”
"The first thing we noticed, and the most exciting feature, was how simple server management was using Egenera PAN Manager software. Everything from network, server and processor allocation could be managed all under one very easy to use interface. Our IT staff had the power to create virtual networks and servers immediately."
"Global DR for us needs to be as close to real time as possible. We researched many different technologies in the past year in an attempt to find the right solution for us. We looked quite extensively at virtual machines and software-based replication technologies but nothing was as clean and effortless as the Egenera platform. Egenera was very attractive to us because they made the whole process seamless and automatic."
Jeff Wood, IT Director
RCM Capital Management
"The new public service platform consists of more than 10 sub-systems running various applications. Because these applications are complex, mission-critical and frequently modified, a virtualized, easily managed platform was needed. Egenera's integrated system of hardware and software met all of the requirements needed to achieve our vision."
Dr. Yixue Li, Director
Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology
"Because virtualization enables a data center to configure and reconfigure resources dynamically, we knew it was essential to our utility computing business model. So we carefully evaluated the capabilities of each solution. Egenera was clearly more advanced in virtualization than either of the other two vendors we evaluated."
"Egenera leads the industry in virtualization, blade technology, SAN connectivity, mission-critical Linux and Windows, and enterprise-class hardware based on x86 processors. The PAN architecture is an excellent design uniquely suited to utility computing. We have great confidence in Egenera and look forward to working with them to help keep SK C&C at the forefront of IT services."
Kil-Sub Lee, Vice President
SK C&C
"We try to be very simple in our approach to organizing hardware. We wanted the least amount of hardware and cabling possible. We were looking for simplicity. With Egenera, you plug in your fibre, plug in your LAN connectivity, plug in your power, and you're ready to go."
"As soon as we spoke with Egenera, the light came on. We knew it was exactly what we had been looking for. Egenera gives us instant, built-in redundancy and powerful virtualization capabilities, which are critical in managing multiple facilities."
"Egenera understands that infrastructure doesn't have to be complicated. Ultimately, we were looking for simplicity and performance - something the other vendors didn't even attempt to provide. With Egenera, we don't have to hire consultants to manage it. It just works. Those are the kinds of companies we like to do business with - those that simplify a process and deliver results."
Glenn Rappaport, Director of IT
Sport & Health
"Our IT vision is based on a pool of computing resources that can be repurposed as needed based on business requirements. With the bank's future in mind, we looked at mainframes, high-end RISC systems, x86 white boxes and blades. Egenera was the only vendor with an integrated solution for virtualization and the I/O fabric, and the only one with a proven product. At the end of the day, Egenera was the lowest cost, lowest risk choice, providing the most flexibility. It's already helping us improve time to market and IT responsiveness, and will ultimately have a positive impact on revenues. Egenera has opened our eyes to a new way of thinking about the data center."
Jan Verplancke, CIO, Group Head Technology & Operations,
Standard Chartered
"We can minimize new investments because multiple blades can share the existing network and power supply in Egenera’s BladeFrame. In addition, we don’t need to restructure our network or prepare a VLAN for a new system.”
Yutaka Ikeda, System Engineer, Markets Systems Division
Tokyo-Mitsubishi Information Technology
"PRIMERGY BladeFrame helps us to provide our customers with e-Service Area services in a quick, reliable and fail-safe fashion. For many of the enterprises we serve, the improved service quality and more efficient IT are decisive criteria in selecting e-Service Area services. Of course, cost savings also play an important role. So far, customers have been able to save up to 30 percent of costs over their own operations. At the same time, they benefit from a highly-available solution instead of a single server and can also, within a matter of minutes, utilize an additional server for business intelligence applications or for intranet or Internet services."
Ulrich Kemp, Large and Mid-Enterprise Business Management
T-Systems
"In choosing the platforms for the Census Bureau Utility Computing Environment, we found the utility computing capabilities of the Egenera BladeFrame very desirable. At the same time, it offered low total cost of ownership. Also significant is the responsive, hands-on support Egenera provides. This combination of forward-thinking functionality, quantifiable savings and top-notch service convinced us that the Egenera BladeFrame was an exceptional investment in our data center's future."
Thomas J. Berti, CSVD, BCC,
U.S. Census Bureau
"Utility computing is the future of data center infrastructure at the Census. Capitalizing on this vision means eliminating dedicated servers in favor of flexible resources that can be allocated to any application at any time. It means delivering processing capacity to our clients in minutes or hours instead of weeks or months. And it means sharing systems across departments for high availability and continuity of operations, improving utilization, consolidating servers and reducing both capital and operational costs. We found the utility computing capabilities of the Egenera system very desirable."
Thomas J. Berti, CSVD, BCC,
U.S. Census Bureau
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