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Egenera Completes Full SAP(R) Integration Certification With Solaris 10
Egenera BladeFrame First to Achieve Certification for Both Intel and AMD x64 Servers
| Source: Egenera
MARLBORO, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 2, 2007 --Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization
company, today announced that the Egenera® BladeFrame® system has been
fully certified to run SAP® applications with the Solaris 10 operating
system (OS) on both Intel® Xeon® and AMD® processors. The Egenera system
is the first and only server platform on the market to achieve full SAP
certification with the Solaris 10 OS for both x64 servers based on Intel
Xeon and AMD processors. Egenera is an SAP Global Technology Partner, a
distinction reserved for leading technology companies with significant
market share in their industries.
Concurrently, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Egenera's exclusive OEM partner in
EMEA, announced broad certification for its PRIMERGY BladeFrame® powered by
Egenera® product family (see related news release).
Running SAP applications on the Egenera BladeFrame system, with its unique
Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture, dramatically reduces complexity
in the data center and maximizes the availability, manageability,
scalability and performance of the complete SAP infrastructure. Enabling
the rapid, flexible deployment of new services makes the BladeFrame system
the ideal platform for enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (eSOA)
implementations -- whether on Windows or Solaris platforms.
"We are proud to have Egenera as one of the first SAP partners being
certified for SAP with the Solaris 10 OS on x64 platforms," said Juan
Carlos Soto, vice president, market development for Sun Microsystems. "We
anticipate that the combination of Egenera's market leading virtualized
infrastructure, together with the Solaris 10 OS, will provide SAP customers
with resilient virtualization on top of a widely-deployed and proven
operating system. We expect that our joint customers will embrace the
combination, and cut costs and complexity."
"Egenera and Fujitsu Siemens are the first Intel OEM partners to provide
certified Intel servers for SAP applications on Solaris 10 x64," said Jake
Smith, enterprise marketing manager, Server Products Group, Intel. "The
combination of the Egenera PAN architecture and Intel's record breaking
performance gives customers the right platform for supporting their
critical SAP applications."
"Success for our customers means choice, flexibility and proven, trusted
solutions. Fully certifying the BladeFrame with SAP applications on the
Solaris 10 OS is an important part of our promise to customers to provide
the most rigorously tested and broadly applicable solution available," said
Susan Davis, vice president at Egenera. "Given the clear value that
Egenera brings to enterprise SAP deployments, we continue to see rapid
adoption of the Egenera system for SAP applications. We expect today's
announcement to further that trend."
In concert with Fujitsu Siemens, the SAP applications certification with
the Solaris 10 OS on x64 platforms were performed by Sun's SAP
certification partner, *xware, at the Egenera SAP Competence Center in
Walldorf, Germany. More information about the new certifications is
available at http://www.saponsolaris.com/egenera.html or
http://www.egenera.com/enterprise-sap.htm.
About Egenera Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in delivering data center virtualization
solutions that reduce costs and complexity for hundreds of forward-thinking
companies. 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., USA, Egenera has offices worldwide. For more
information visit www.egenera.com, call +1 508-858-2600 or send email to
info@egenera.com.
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