Uptime Home Now, Let's Make IT Invisible Achieving a Lean, Green IT Machine Data Center Virtualization in Action

Blade computing and virtualization are two of the hottest trends in the server market. Learn how these maturing technologies combine to deliver "Virtualization 2.0," helping your business deliver higher levels of availability, dynamic scalability, and better levels of IT service. Download your free copy of IDC's white paper, Egenera: Virtualization for the Dynamic Data Center, sponsored by Egenera, July 2007.

Egenera Expands Processing Blade Family with Four New Blades Based on Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7300 Series Egenera announced it will expand its Egenera® Processing Blade™ (pBlade™) module family with four new offerings based on the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7350 processor. The new pBlades will include 16, 32, 64 and 96GB memory configurations, representing Egenera's largest memory offering to date.  Read this press release Egenera Signs OEM Agreement with VMware Under the terms of the agreement, Egenera BladeFrame® system customers will be able to purchase VMware Infrastructure 3 solutions and support from Egenera and its resellers beginning in Q4 2007.  Read this press release

InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum September 24-25, 2007 New York City, NY Breakout Session "Vendor Crossfire:x86 Server Virtualization" Panelist:  Vern Brownell SAP TechEd October 1-5, 2007 Mandalay Bay Las Vegas, NV See Egenera in Microsoft's Booth #10 TechTarget Virtualization Seminar November 15, 2007 New York City, NY

In this issue, we explore the concept that IDC has termed "Virtualization 2.0"—where virtualization goes beyond hypervisors and benefits extend from capital cost reduction to lower operations expenses, improved service levels and better responsiveness to changing business needs.

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Read what Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of Does IT Matter?, says about the next stage in the digital revolution—when IT becomes so simple it's invisible.

You are invited to meet Nicholas Carr at one of three events coming up in October.  He will be the featured speaker at grand opening events for SAVVIS' new data centers in Piscataway , NJ on October 11, 2007, Santa, Clara, Ca. on October 18, 2007, and Northern Virginia on October 23, 2007.  For more information and to register, go to http://go.savvis.net/tour

The Green IT movement is moving boldly into the data center, reducing the carbon footprint of what has been, till now, seemingly growing out of control.

Learn how leveraging virtualization can help reduce power, cooling and emissions—while lowering costs in the data center.

Read how these companies are turning to Egenera for unparalleled ease of management, dynamic reprovisioning and solutions that "just work."

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