--Company Announces Two-way Processing Blade Based on the Intel Xeon Processor 3.20 GHz--
Marlboro, Mass.--October 6, 2003--Egenera Inc., the leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, today introduced the newest addition to its broad line of high-end Processing BladeTM configurations: a two-way blade leveraging the Intel® XeonTM processor 3.20 GHz, also announced today.
"Egenera offers the most complete line of Processing Blade options for the enterprise," said Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "We continue to be first to market with the high end of Intel's two-way and four-way product lines, enabling our customers to run critical applications that require powerful processors and lots of memory. Unlike offerings from other vendors, Egenera's BladeFrame® system is designed to run the most mission-critical, back-end, enterprise applications. Moreover, while other vendors talk about enabling utility computing in the future, Egenera customers have had this capability for more than 18 months."
Egenera's market-leading portfolio of high-end Processing Blade configurations includes:
Four-way SMP
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Intel Xeon processor MP 2.80 GHz with 12 GB ECC DDR ChipkillTM memory
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Intel Xeon processor MP 2 GHz with 12 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory
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Intel Xeon processor MP 2 GHz with 8 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory
Two-way SMP
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Intel Xeon processor 3.20 GHz with 6 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory
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Intel Xeon processor 3.06 GHz with 2 or 6 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory and 533 MHz FSB
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Intel Xeon processor 2.80 GHz with 12 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory
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Intel Xeon processor 2.40 GHz with 2 or 6 GB ECC DDR Chipkill memory and 533 MHz FSB
The Intel Xeon processor 3.20 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 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 Blade 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.
Press Contacts
Nancy Herzog
Egenera, Inc.
508-858-2605
nherzog@egenera.com
Monica Pandolfi
SHIFT Communications, Inc.
617-681-1235
mpandolfi@shiftcomm.com
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.
Egenera, Egenera stylized logos, BladeFrame, PAN Manager and Processing Blade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Egenera, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. Chipkill is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Intel is a registered trademark and NetBurst and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. 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.
