Converged infrastructure servers to incorporate latest Intel processors
Marlboro, MA – March 16, 2010
News Facts
- Egenera announces new Egenera® BladeFrame® support for the latest family of 2-socket Egenera Processing Blade™ offerings based on Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors.
- Optimized for processing density and energy efficiency, the new 12-core Processing Blade(pBladeTM) will reduce power consumption in half while significantly increasing processing capacity.
- New Egenera pBlades will remain fully compatible with all three generations of BladeFrame systems sold in the last nine years, allowing any customer to easily upgrade existing systems to meet current business requirements and future virtualization needs.
- Egenera pBlades are diskless and stateless, enabling automated allocation, repurposing and failover, since any processing blade can assume the identity of any other blade in the BladeFrame, whether physical or virtual. This architecture forms the core of Egenera’s production-proven converged infrastructure solutions.
- Egenera pBlades coupled with PAN Manager® Software by Egenera enables customers to manage their mission-critical data centers, controlling data center costs while improving availability and responsiveness.
- General availability of the new Egenera pBlades is expected in Q2CY10.
Supporting Quotes
“Intel and Egenera have always shared a common focus—enabling our customers to reduce data center costs and complexity while optimizing performance and flexibility,” said Scott Geng, senior vice president of engineering at Egenera. “Egenera’s newest blades, leveraging Intel’s latest technology, show our continued commitment to the BladeFrame platform, and expand our customer’s ability to get the highest levels of performance while still reducing power consumption.”
“The Intel Xeon processor 5600 series is the next generation of intelligent server processors—automatically regulating power consumption and performance to adapt to changing workloads,” said Jake Smith, advanced server technologies, Intel data denter group marketing. "Coupled with Egenera's converged infrastructure solutions, customers can simply and automatically scale performance to meet business demands for even their most mission-critical applications.”
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