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Egenera PAN Manager Software - An Overview

Egenera has been selling its mission-critical PAN Manager® Software since 2001. Based on the Processing Area Network (PAN) concept, PAN Manager simplifies data center infrastructure and management by pooling compute, I/O, network and storage resources. The system’s embedded server profile creation, HA and DR facilities ensure a wire-once, always-on environment that supports all virtualization technologies as well as native operating systems. This document provides an overview of Egenera PAN Manager software.

This paper provides an overview of how PAN Manager software by Egenera® meets those requirements.

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The Dynamic Datacenter with Egenera PAN Manager Software

Simplification of data center management has become increasingly vital to every organization. With the advent of the cloud, requirements for business continuity are increasingly becoming business critical needs. Having the choice of an open software solution empowers an organization to make purchasing and planning decisions which are free from vendor lock in constraints.

These are the drivers behind Egenera’s PAN Manager® Software: Converge. Unify. Simplify.

This paper reviews the requirements of the dynamic data center and demonstrates how PAN Manager software by Egenera® meets those requirements.

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Verifiable Disaster Recovery with Egenera PAN Manager

PAN Manager® software by Egenera® offers simple to install and manage Disaster Recovery. The solution is designed to ensure business continuity by restoring all of your critical applications to full operation in fewer than 30 minutes — every time.

This paper reviews how Egenera PAN Manager® Software meets the demands of Disaster Recovery

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Building a Flexible, Reliable and Automated Cloud with a Unified Computing Fabric from Egenera

In this whitepaper, important fundamentals of cloud deployment and success are identified and reviewed. The need for an open infrastructure management platform is analyzed as a critical tool to properly supporting business needs performance in the cloud.

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Curtailing the Power and Cooling Epidemic

This white paper discusses in more depth the power and cooling crisis in the data center. It then reviews the options for dealing with these problems and how the PAN architecture aligns with each of these options.

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Green Data Center and Virtualization – Reducing Power by up to 50%

Data center complexity and the large number of servers in the data center are the primary drivers of increased energy consumption for power and cooling. This white paper analyses how Egenera reduces energy costs in the data center by up to 50%.

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Making Converged IT Infrastructure a Practical Reality

IT infrastructure technologies are converging and the lines between compute, network, and storage functions are blurring. Consolidated connectivity has been driving a new generation of tightly integrated, stateless infrastructure. But the promise of these systems cannot be fully realized without also converging management tools, technologies, and practices.

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Maximizing Business Agility with the Dynamic Data Center

This Vendor Spotlight discusses the move toward a more converged infrastructure leveraging I/O and network virtualization to deliver simplified high-availability and disaster recovery services. The paper looks at Egenera, a provider of converged infrastructure solutions, and offers advice on what IT executives should consider when evaluating converged computing solutions.

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Making IT Work: 9 Steps to a Dynamic Data Center

Todays competitive and economic pressures are driving executives to take a closer look at how well their IT systems align with the companys business operations. Although time-tested strategies such as virtualization and standardization have helped streamline processes and budgets, true IT-to-business alignment requires an approach that integrates management of the entire physical and virtual computing infrastructure, making it more responsive to business demands.

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Simplifying Oracle® RAC Cluster Management

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), a feature of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, provides enterprises with the option to deploy a single database using a multi-server x86 cluster configuration. RAC offers a number of advantages when compared with a database running on a single server, including scalability, high availability, and improved manageability.

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Reference Architecture: PAN Manager for VDI on Fujitsu

This white paper describes the reference architecture for a PAN Manager based converged infrastructure, unified computing, management platform, designed to deliver virtual desktops using Citrix XenDesktop with inherent elasticity, unified high availability and unified disaster recovery. The hardware for this solution is based on Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 x 86 server hardware.

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Reference Architecture: PAN Manager for VDI on Dell

This white paper describes the reference architecture for a PAN Manager based converged infrastructure, unified computing, management platform, designed to deliver virtual desktops using Citrix XenDesktop with inherent elasticity, unified high availability and unified disaster recovery. The hardware for this solution is based on Dell PowerEdge x 86 server hardware.

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