--Industry's Most Powerful Two-way Blade Server Runs Customers' Most Demanding Applications--
Marlboro, Mass.--September 12, 2002--Egenera Inc., the leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, today introduced a two-way EgeneraTM Processing BladeTM leveraging the Intel® XeonTM processor 2.80 GHz, announced yesterday.
"With this product, Egenera continues to lead the market for server blades and extends our competitive advantage," said Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "While legacy vendors talk about delivering enterprise-class blades that perform like real servers, our BladeFrameTM system-which features both two-way blades and the industry's only four-way bladed servers-has been running mission-critical production applications since we started shipping last fall. By combining purpose-built hardware with software-driven resource virtualization, Egenera gives customers unique access to the manageability, flexibility and cost savings of blades without sacrificing the processing power and mainframe-class RAS needed to run a business."
Egenera now provides six Intel-based Processing Blade configurations:
Four-way SMP
- Intel Xeon processor MP 1.60 GHz, 256K L2 cache, 1M L3 cache with 12 GB ECC DDR memory
- Intel Xeon processor MP 1.40 GHz, 256K L2 cache, 512K L3 cache with 12 GB ECC DDR memory
Two-way SMP
- Intel Xeon processor 2.80 GHz, 512K L2 cache with 6 GB ECC DDR memory
- Intel Xeon processor 2.20 GHz, 512K L2 cache with 6 GB ECC DDR memory
- Intel Pentium® III processor 1.26 GHz, 512K L2 cache with 2 GB ECC SDRAM memory
- Intel Pentium III processor 1 GHz, 256K L2 cache with 2 GB ECC SDRAM memory
The Intel Xeon processor 2.80 GHz provides Intel's highest frequency for dual-processor servers, offering the best results for multi-threaded applications and multi-tasking environments. The Intel NetBurstTM micro-architecture enhances bandwidth, throughput and thread-level parallelism to further accelerate performance. Increased reliability means less system downtime, while increased scalability provides the headroom necessary for business growth.
The Egenera BladeFrame, with its Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture, assembles purpose-built hardware and management software in a fully integrated computing platform that enables enterprise-class datacenters to quantifiably achieve savings, optimize application availability and drive market agility. The BladeFrame combines the reliability and manageability of a mainframe, the scalability of distributed computing and the price/performance of commodity components to deliver the only processing architecture that makes Lintel viable for mission-critical applications.
Leveraging the Red Hat® Linux® operating system, the BladeFrame creates a pool of up to 96 server-class Intel processors on 24 hot-pluggable Processing Blades interconnected via a very high-speed, internal network and deployed through Egenera PAN ManagerTM software. As new processors become available, customers enjoy a built-in migration path and eliminate forklift upgrades by simply replacing individual Processing Blades. Likewise, multiple processor and OS generations can run simultaneously on a single BladeFrame, protecting earlier investments. With no local disk, and therefore no state, Processing Blades are anonymous and interchangeable--a unique characteristic that enables datacenters to dynamically increase, decrease and reallocate processing capacity to support new applications or accommodate variable demand on existing applications without purchasing, installing or managing incremental equipment.
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 delivered tomorrow's datacenter today by integrating hardware, software, networking and services into simple, yet powerful machines. The Company's BladeFrame system helps large enterprises achieve savings, optimize application availability and drive business agility. 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 datacenter computing. Relationships with EMC, Intel, Oracle, Red Hat and Turbolinux, among others, further strengthen the Egenera value proposition. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices in Charlotte, Dallas, London, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo and Washington D.C. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600.
Egenera, Egenera stylized logos, BladeFrame, PAN Manager and Processing Blade are trademarks of Egenera, Inc. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks and NetBurst and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Red Hat is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. The information in this document is subject to change without notice.
