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Egenera Signs OEM Agreement With VMware
Global Leaders in Server and Data Center Virtualization Extend Relationship to Align Complementary Technologies
| Source: Egenera
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - September 12, 2007) - Today at VMworld 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."
Egenera at VMworld 2007
Vern Brownell, Egenera's founder and Chief Strategist, will be presenting
today, Wednesday, September 12 from 11:30-12:30 in a session titled, "Best
Practices for the Data Center of the Future." Other panelists in the
session include executives from Hewlett Packard, the Mayo Clinic, Microsoft
and VMware. The session is being moderated by Intel.
About Egenera, Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in delivering data center virtualization
solutions that reduce costs and complexity for enterprises and public
sector agencies worldwide. The Egenera® BladeFrame® system virtualizes
the data center with an innovative server architecture specifically
designed to reduce complexity and enable IT to respond rapidly to business
requirements. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust Egenera to
run their most critical applications and achieve higher resource
utilization, faster application time to market and lower total cost of
ownership. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass. Egenera has offices worldwide.
For more information visit www.egenera.com, call 508-858-2600 or send email
to info@egenera.com.
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