—Egenera's Utility Computing Platform Extended to Solaris Applications—
Marlboro, Mass.—November 17, 2005—Egenera Inc., a global leader in utility computing, today announced that it has added support for the SolarisTM 10 operating system to its Egenera® BladeFrame® system. With this addition, the Egenera BladeFrame can dynamically and automatically deploy and redeploy the Solaris, Linux® and Microsoft® Windows® operating systems across servers in real time.
Support for Solaris on Egenera's x86 system is in response to demand from customers across industries that wish to run Solaris applications in the virtualized utility computing environment enabled by the Egenera BladeFrame. Sun leads the UNIX® server market, enabling Egenera to bring its unique virtualization technology to a broader range of customers and applications.
"The world-record performance of Solaris 10 for x86 and the availability of advanced technologies such as Solaris Containers, Predictive Self-Healing and DTrace make Solaris an ideal platform for Egenera's BladeFrame customers," said Tom Goguen, vice president of Software at Sun Microsystems. "Egenera has a reputation for delivering leading-edge utility computing, virtualization and automation capabilities in their BladeFrame systems; their choice of Solaris 10 reaffirms our position that Solaris 10 is the most advanced OS on the planet."
With today's announcement, the Egenera BladeFrame provides the ability to simultaneously run Red Hat® Linux, SUSE LINUX, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Solaris 10 on a single system. By enabling customers to repurpose individual Egenera Processing BladeTM resources across operating systems, Egenera delivers utility computing today while providing the choice and flexibility to run an extensive range of business services.
"Solaris is an important operating system for enterprise datacenters," noted Pete Manca, senior vice president of Engineering, Egenera. "We are pleased to support yet another mission-critical OS on our Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture. Moreover, the growing ecosystem of independent software vendors rallying behind Solaris 10 will enable our customers to support more of their enterprise applications on the BladeFrame and derive even greater value from an Egenera investment."
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Nancy Keswani
Egenera, Inc.
508-858-2605
nkeswani@egenera.com
Wayne St. Amand
Greenough Communications
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Egenera is a global leader in delivering computing solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera BladeFrame product family 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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