Egenera Partners with NEC on Global Distributor Agreement

Premier IT and Network Integration Company Signs as Exclusive Provider of PAN Manager® Software Solution
for NEC SIGMABLADE System

BOXBOROUGH, MA – October 19, 2011 – Egenera (www.egenera.com), a provider of enterprise-scale converged infrastructure management solutions, today announces it has signed an intent-to-deliver agreement with NEC, the leading volume server provider in the Japanese market, to develop PAN Manager® software optimized for the unique capabilities of the company’s SIGMABLADE System. NEC will be the worldwide sole distributor of PAN Manager® Software Solution for the NEC SIGMABLADE System.

Egenera provides unified management and automation for physical and virtual computing environments. Utilizing a single user interface, PAN Manager simplifies data center infrastructure and management by leveraging standard server and networking technology to create a data center fabric on which both bare metal and virtualized workloads can be quickly and easily provisioned, providing the ideal platform for delivering cloud-based services and large scale Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments, along with other business and mission critical enterprise applications that demand a flexible and highly available computing environment.

“Our partnership with NEC positions Egenera at the heart of the emerging opportunity for cloud computing in Japan as we continue to deliver data center automation for reliable, protected virtual and physical environments,” said Pete Manca, Egenera chairman, president and CEO. “We look forward to working with NEC and to the opportunities the partnership creates for the future.”

NEC’s SIGMABLADE allows for optimal server consolidation and provides a robust foundation for mission-critical enterprise infrastructure. Reliable support of such architecture is an essential element of the company’s strategy for delivering cloud solutions and services that contribute not only to the field of information technology and networks but also to societal, individual and corporate activities.

“NEC is excited to enter this new partnership with Egenera,” said TakaoMaruyama, NEC associate senior vice president. “The relationship extends NEC’s rich history of providing customers with technologies and expertise across a wide rangeof mission critical systems. Egenera’s PAN Manager combined with NEC’s SIGMABLADE systems builds on that foundation and enables us to flexibly and economicallycreate highly reliable private clouds for businesses.”

Egenera, based in Boxborough, MA, has over 1,600 production installations globally, including premier enterprise data centers, service providers and government agencies. For more information on the company, please visit www.egenera.com.

About Egenera
Converge. Unify. Simplify. That’s how Egenera makes every data center a reliable dynamic data center, quickly and easily. The company’s production-proven converged infrastructure data center solutions, powerful Egenera® PAN Manager® Software and professional services are trusted globally to deliver proven value through agility, reliability and availability. Egenera solutions and services guarantee wire-once, always-on, physical and virtual management across the data center with measurable savings. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.egenera.com or emailinfo@egenera.com.

About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the company’s experience and global resources, NEC’s advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society. For more information, visit NEC at www.nec.com.

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NEC Corporation
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