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An Overview of PAN Manager by Egenera

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As a forward-looking IT professional, you need a data center optimization strategy that goes beyond hardware consolidation. One that simplifies operational complexity, adapts to your existing environment, and delivers a secure and responsive computing infrastructure all while lowering TCO. At Egenera, we know what you want from a world-class infrastructure management solution. Thats because we invented the technology. Its called PAN Manager by Egenera and it will bring your data center to unprecedented levels of manageability. You will sleep at night knowing that even your most mission-critical applications just keep on running.

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Building a Reliable and Dynamic Data Center with PAN Manager by Egenera

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Leading IT managers are taking steps toward a more dynamic data center by implementing strategies such as industry-standard computing platforms, storage area networks, and server virtualization. Though these changes have resulted in higher resource utilization and lower costs, the next challenge is to reach the level of IT agility needed to enable stronger competitive resilience. Improving data center responsiveness requires a computing infrastructure that is not only cost effective and space-efficient, but also one that simplifies operational procedures; ensures high availability, security, and performance for all applications; and is easily reconfigurable to meet new business objectives. The dynamic data center is within reach today. This paper looks at the requirements for the dynamic data center and demonstrates how Egenera meets these requirements with its PAN Manager by Egenera software.

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Maximizing Business Agility with the Dynamic Data Center

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Perhaps you have completed the first phase of virtualization â?? server consolidation â?? and enjoy the benefits of lower costs, less crowded floor space, and a smaller carbon footprint. Now youâ??re looking at virtualization as a way to create a more agile IT infrastructure that will provide higher service levels and greater reliability along with further reductions in TCOâ??what Egenera calls the dynamic data center. Egenera keeps some of the worldâ??s most vital applications running on industry-standard servers. And we do it by requiring significantly less equipment, intelligently employing virtualization technology, and dramatically simplifying operational practices. All of which translates into higher business value and a healthier bottom line.

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Prepare for the Best: Fast and Reliable Disaster Recovery

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There is little doubt that a hurricane or flood could bring your data center to a sudden halt. But according to a global study conducted by Forrester Research, over 40 percent of the IT executives surveyed indicated that it was a power failure and not a violent natural event that caused their most recent data center outages. Regardless of the reason for the disruption, what matters most is how soon you recover your most critical applications and business processes.

Dell™ PAN System combines PAN Manager® software by Egenera® for Dell with Dell PowerEdge™ servers. 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. PAN Manager eliminates the cost and complexity associated with typical disaster recovery systems by its ability to instantiate any application on any physical or virtual server, at any time, automatically. PAN Manager simplifies disaster recovery operations, lowers capital and operational costs and increases the efficient use of disaster recovery resources.

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

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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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Curtailing the Power and Cooling Epidemic

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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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Making IT Work: 9 Steps to a Dynamic Data Center

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Today’s competitive and economic pressures are compelling enterprise executives to take a closer look at how well their IT systems align with the company’s 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. This paper identifies nine steps that will transform your organization’s static IT environment into a reliable dynamic data center.

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Simplifying Oracle® RAC Cluster Management

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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.

The Dell PAN System combines PAN Manager software by Egenera for Dell with efficient Dell PowerEdge servers. By leveraging PAN Manager’s advanced infrastructure orchestration capabilities, the Dell PAN System brings further operational and cost benefits to IT departments responsible for Oracle RAC configurations. Together, Dell PAN System and Oracle RAC offer unprecedented levels of database reliability and responsiveness while eliminating the cost and complexity associated with installing, configuring, and maintaining the underlying cluster.

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