MARLBORO, Mass. — August 9, 2006 — Egenera, Inc., a global leader in datacenter virtualization architecture, today announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with CJ Systems, a system integration service provider in Korea. CJ Systems builds, operates and manages strategic information systems for businesses. The company is owned by CJ Group, which is made up of 59 affiliates and 28 overseas networks. Under the terms of the agreement, CJ Systems will resell the Egenera® BladeFrame® system to a broad customer base.
The Egenera BladeFrame system dramatically simplifies the datacenter by delivering a highly-available, mission critical and sharable platform that cuts costs and increases business agility in complex environments. The new agreement with CJ Systems will extend Egenera's penetration in Korea within a diverse set of vertical industries and further accelerates the company's execution of an aggressive global growth strategy.
"CJ Systems is working with Egenera because the BladeFrame system is unlike anything else in the market," said Il-Hwan Kim, president, CJ Systems. "While other vendor solutions are tied to legacy server architectures with unmanageable complexity, Egenera draws upon flexible, secure and responsive utility computing and virtualization technologies. Egenera can provide the fully integrated solution that our customers are looking for."
"We are pleased to be working with CJ Systems and are honored to be playing an integral role in their outsourcing and solutions offering," said Mike Thompson, chief operating officer, Egenera. "With this joint commitment, CJ Systems can confidently offer clients high business value with a competitive advantage."
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Egenera is a global leader in delivering enterprise computing solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera BladeFrame system simplifies the datacenter with an innovative server architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and enable IT to respond rapidly to business requirements. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important business applications and achieve higher resource utilization, faster application time to market and lower total cost of ownership. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide. For more information visit www.egenera.com, call 508-858-2600 or send email to info@egenera.com.
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