Dell™ PAN Datacenter-in-a-Box Simplifies Mission-Critical Computing
Marlboro, MA – September 10, 2009
News Facts
- Egenera today announces the availability of Dell™ PAN Datacenter-in-a-Box; an all-in-one software, server, storage and networking platform that is easy to setup, easy to use and flexible to meet changing business environments at the lowest total cost of ownership.
- Dell PAN Datacenter-in-a-Box is the industry’s lowest price and most robust converged network alternative to HP BladeSystem Matrix with HP Matrix Orchestration Environment, and Cisco Unified Computing Systems.
- The core of the Datacenter-in-a-Box solution is PAN Manager® Software by Egenera®. Proven in over 1,400 production installations worldwide, PAN Manager Software delivers built-in wire-once, always on mission-critical high availability and disaster recovery for unified computing environments.
- The Dell PAN Datacenter-in-a-Box is available for an all-in introductory price of $99,000, and includes:
- A blade enclosure for up to 16 blades,
- 21U Rackframe,
- Embedded virtual machine environment,
- Single-pane-of-glass management for physical and virtual resources,
- N+1 high availability for physical and virtual workloads,
- Converged fabric networking with fully redundant infrastructure,
- Simple-to-use, automated configuration and provisioning, and
- Installation services
- Pre-certified on major operating systems, databases and hypervisors, Dell PAN Datacenter-in-a-Box is an ideal solution for mid-sized enterprises running Oracle RAC or SAP, and for cloud service providers operating alights-out distributed environments.
- Dell PAN Datacenter-in-a-Box is available for purchase on September 9, 2009 from Dell and authorized Dell Enterprise Resellers.
Supporting Quotes
“The Dell PAN Datacenter-in-a-Box is a ‘starter kit’ that drives demonstrable business value,” said Christine Crandell, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Egenera. “Based on over a thousand PAN Manager Software installations worldwide and Dell PowerSolution blades, this solution is ideal for business- and mission-critical applications that require fast failover, ease of use and a solution that can scale, saving up to seventy percent of operating and capital expenditures.”
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