--Prestigious Award Validates Egenera's Technology Vision and Corporate Excellence--
Marlboro, Mass.--April 29, 2002--Egenera, Inc., the leader in next-generation data center infrastructure, today announced that Network World has honored the Company as one of "10 Start-ups to Watch for 2002." Network World editors consider companies in a diverse group of market segments and select those poised to be the networking stars of tomorrow based on their technology/product concept, management experience, founders, funding and organizational structure. Egenera is featured in the magazine's Network World 200 Issue, on newsstands today.
With this award, Egenera joins a distinguished roster of previous Network World Top 10 Start-ups including Akamai, Foundry Networks, Inktomi, Loudcloud and Red Hat.
"Among the 90 companies we evaluated, we think these 10 network start-ups in particular have the right technologies, management and strategies to make lasting impressions in their target markets," said Beth Schultz, editor, Signature Series. "They operate in promising fields, with distinguished product concepts."
"Since criteria for the Network World Top 10 include both product innovation and corporate excellence, this award acknowledges the outstanding contribution of every Egenera employee," noted Debbie Miller, president and CEO, Egenera. "Moreover, such comprehensive recognition from a publication of Network World's caliber signals to the marketplace that Egenera has the technology vision and customer focus to dominate next-generation computing well into the future."
Press Contacts
Nancy Herzog
Egenera, Inc.
508-858-2605
nherzog@egenera.com
Monica Pandolfi
Sterling Hager, Inc.
617-393-4280
mpandolfi@sterlinghager.com
Egenera has pioneered a next-generation approach to data center computing by integrating hardware, software, networking and services into simple, yet powerful machines. The Company's BladeFrameTM system helps large enterprises and service providers lower total cost of ownership, improve data center management, keep applications online and reduce time-to-market. Privately held, Egenera has assembled a senior management team and engineering staff with an average 20-plus years' experience working with the industry's foremost providers and users of enterprise-class hardware and software systems. This collective technical, customer and business experience uniquely positions the Company to reinvent data center computing. Relationships with EMC, Intel, Oracle, Red Hat and Turbolinux, among others, further strengthen the Egenera value proposition. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600.
The Network World 200 Issue, part of Network World's premier Signature Series, profiles the 10 start-ups to watch in the network industry. Network World editors choose companies based on their technology, funding, founders and organizational structure.
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