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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

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Egenera Signs OEM Agreement with VMware

Global Leaders in Server and Data Center Virtualization Extend Relationship  to Align Complementary Technologies

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—September 12, 2007—Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization company, announced it has entered into an 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.  The agreement further strengthens the relationship between the two companies, and delivers closely aligned and complementary virtualization solutions for the enterprise data center.

Egenera previously announced a port of VMware ESX Server - part of VMware Infrastructure - to the Egenera BladeFrame system, complementing Egenera's data center virtualization solutions with the robust infrastructure virtualization capabilities of VMware technology.  Availability is slated for Q4 2007.

Data Center Virtualization: Dynamically Aligning Resources Across the Data Center

Infrastructure virtualization from VMware is an important platform for facing the demands of today's IT environments, providing customers with business continuity, disaster recovery and reductions in power and cooling costs.  Egenera's data center virtualization solutions complement this by providing a highly available platform that eliminates up to 80 percent of the components needed in alternative systems by virtualizing the network, storage and management infrastructure.  Designed to support business- and mission-critical applications, the BladeFrame system is an ideal platform to host large-scale deployments of virtual machines when availability and scalability are key requirements.  In addition, Egenera PAN Manager™ software provides automatic hardware failover and high availability, disaster recovery, policy-based automation, and full monitoring and management capabilities.

"Customers are looking for complete virtualization solutions to consolidate workloads, reduce IT costs and provide business continuity for mission-critical applications and processes," said Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and solutions, VMware. "This expansion of Egenera's relationship with VMware makes it even easier for customers to reap these benefits on Egenera systems by enabling more streamlined implementations of VMware Infrastructure."

"VMware Infrastructure is the market-leading infrastructure virtualization software suite and we are excited about expanding our relationship with VMware for joint customers' benefit," said Susan Davis, vice president, Egenera.  "With the new OEM agreement, Egenera customers will be able to further extend the inherent data center virtualization capabilities of Egenera solutions with VMware's industry leading virtualization platform."

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