--Egenera Gives Customers More Options For Moving Business-Critical Applications to Server Blades--
Marlboro, Mass.--August 11, 2003--Egenera Inc., the leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, today announced the availability of three new four-way EgeneraTM Processing BladeTM configurations based on the Intel® XeonTM processor MP 2.80 GHz and Intel Xeon processor MP 2 GHz. These new blades further extend the Company's market lead, making Egenera the only vendor with products that allow customers to move mission-critical applications to a bladed architecture.
"Egenera's BladeFrameTM system is still the only bladed server suitable for business- critical and back-end applications," said Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "But the real story here is the virtualization of processing resources. By combining diskless blades with unique software that virtualizes 80 percent of legacy-server hardware, the BladeFrame lets customers run any application, on any resource, at any time, automatically. This powerful capability-coupled with the unparalleled price/performance of Intel's Xeon processor family-enables datacenters to dramatically reduce total cost of ownership through unprecedented server consolidation."
Egenera leads the market with the most comprehensive portfolio of high-end Processing Blade configurations, including:
Four-way SMP
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Intel Xeon processor MP 2.80 GHz, 2 MB L3 cache, 12 GB ECC DDR ChipkillTM memory
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Intel Xeon processor MP 2 GHz, 1 MB L3 cache, 12 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory
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Intel Xeon processor MP 2 GHz, 1 MB L3 cache, 8 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory
Two-way SMP
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Intel Xeon processor 3.06 GHz, 533 MHz front-side bus, up to 6 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory
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Intel Xeon processor 2.80 GHz, 400 MHz front-side bus, 12 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory
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Intel Xeon processor 2.40 GHz, 533 MHz front-side bus, up to 6 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory.
Unlike offerings from other vendors, all Egenera Processing Blades share the same 1U form factor. Customers can easily mix and match configurations, hot-swapping blades based on capacity or adding a new blade of any configuration to an empty slot. Moreover, Egenera Processing Blades support more memory than any blade server on the market, making them better suited for handling mission-critical applications such as databases and transaction processing.
Servers based on Intel Xeon processor MP technology deliver productivity, scalability, dependability and price/performance leadership for a broad range of enterprise and e-business applications, including customer relationship management, middleware, collaboration, media servers, site management, databases, business intelligence and supply-chain management. Benchmarks conducted by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) show that the Intel Xeon processor MP family delivers up to 20 percent more processed orders versus RISC-based servers at less than half the cost. Moreover, Intel offers the broadest ecosystem of any microprocessor supplier, with over 3,000 independent software vendor (ISV) applications supported on the Intel Architecture.
Editor's Note: A photo and caption for the Egenera four-way Processing Blade are available online at www.egenera.com/prod_photos_4way.php.
The Egenera BladeFrame, with its Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture, assembles purpose-built hardware and virtualization software in a fully integrated computing platform that enables enterprise-class datacenters to lower total cost of ownership and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. The system combines the scalability of server blades and the price/performance of commodity components with mainframe-class functionality, enabling customers to leverage Linux® and Microsoft® Windows® for mission-critical applications. The BladeFrame creates a pool of up to 96 server-class Intel® processors on 24 Egenera Processing BladeTM resources that are deployed and managed entirely through Egenera PAN ManagerTM software. Processing power can be dynamically increased, decreased and reallocated to support new applications or accommodate variable demand on existing applications without purchasing, installing or managing incremental equipment.
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Egenera, Inc.
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Egenera's breakthrough virtualization technology optimizes the use of network, compute and storage resources to enable the next-generation utility datacenter. The Company's Egenera BladeFrame system leads the industry in both server blade technology and virtualization software by enabling datacenters to run any application, on any resource, at any time, automatically. Today, BladeFrames are installed at marquee customers worldwide, including more than half of the world's largest investment banks, major Internet service providers, telecommunications companies, healthcare providers and government agencies. A world-class service and support organization ensures customer satisfaction. Moreover, the Company has assembled a senior management team and engineering staff with an average 20-plus years' experience. Relationships with Microsoft, Intel, BEA Systems, EMC, Itochu Techno-Science Corporation (CTC), Oracle, Red Hat and Veritas, among others, further strengthen the value proposition. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Hong Kong, Kansas City, London, New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington D.C. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600.
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