--Egenera Processing Area Network Extended to Support 64-bit Intel Architecture--
Marlboro, Mass.--July 27, 2004--Egenera Inc., a leader in utility computing, today announced that it recently began developing a two-way Egenera® Processing Blade™ configuration based on the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor.
"We believe the Itanium 2 processor brings the performance, standards and volume economics of the Intel Architecture to the most data-intensive, business-critical segments of enterprise computing," said Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "Our customers, many of whom run critical database and transaction-processing applications on the BladeFrame® architecture, can benefit from the value of Itanium for these services."
Davis continued, "Also significant, users will be able to combine Itanium 2 processor-based Processing Blades and Intel Xeon™ processor-based Processing Blades within a single BladeFrame system. As datacenters increasingly adopt utility computing, this capability is designed to ensure that resources are routinely available to every application running on the Egenera platform."
"Itanium 2 processor-based platforms, such as the new Egenera Processing Blade, enable end users to improve return on investment by delivering Intel's industry-leading performance at generally lower cost than proprietary RISC technologies," said Richard Dracott, general manager of Enterprise Marketing and Planning at Intel. "By giving customers access to both Itanium 2 processor- and Intel Xeon processor-based blades, Egenera can broaden the range of applications supported by a BladeFrame utility computing model."
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Egenera, Inc.
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Egenera designs, markets and supports an enterprise-class datacenter computing platform, the Egenera BladeFrame system, which enables our customers to implement utility computing. This model, which we believe represents the next major transformation of the datacenter environment, enables users to dynamically allocate resources to applications on an as-needed basis. Today, BladeFrame platforms are installed at customers worldwide, including America Online, Cambridge Health Alliance, Credit Suisse First Boston, Emory Healthcare, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, MChex, SAVVIS Communications, UFJ Group and others. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices in or around Atlanta, Chicago, Hong Kong, Kansas City, London, New York City, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo and Washington D.C. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the performance estimates and statements relating to the timing of product offerings. Among the important factors that could cause actual operating results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are delays in product development, including enhancements to existing products, product performance issues, competitive pressures and general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed in the companyÕs registration statement on Form S-1 on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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