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Egenera Expands Processing Blade Family With Four New Blades Based on Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor 7300 Series
| Source: Egenera
MARLBORO, MA--(Marketwire - September 5, 2007) - Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization
company, today 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 launched today (see Intel press
release). The new pBlades will include 16, 32, 64 and 96GB memory
configurations, representing Egenera's largest memory offering to date.
All of the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor pBlades will be certified to
support Microsoft® Windows®, RedHat® Enterprise Linux®, SUSE Linux
Enterprise, Oracle® Enterprise Linux and Sun® Solaris™ 10 operating
systems.
The new Egenera pBlade modules will be populated with four Quad-Core Intel
Xeon processors 7350 at a speed of 2.93GHz with 16, 32, 64 or 96GB of
memory. While other blade systems may require the use of double-width
blades for configurations utilizing four CPUs or large memory
configurations, Egenera continues to use its standard 1U form factor for
all new blades, including the 96GB pBlade. By delivering the
highest-performing configurations in a standard form factor, Egenera
customers never have to compromise footprint to reap the benefits of
advanced processing technologies.
Processing Blade modules within the Egenera® BladeFrame® System are
diskless and stateless, enabling automated allocation, repurposing and
failover since any server can assume the identity of any other server. The
BladeFrame system combines these stateless blades with Egenera® PAN
Manager™ virtualization software to dramatically reduce data center
complexity and deliver an agile, highly-available infrastructure. A single
Egenera system can run up to 24 pBlade modules simultaneously with various
processor architectures and operating systems, enabling customers to
automatically align computing resources to application requirements and
scale performance dynamically.
"The newest Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor-based pBlades offer the highest
performing CPU and largest memory configuration, with no compromise on
footprint," said Susan Davis, vice president, Egenera. "Egenera continues
to expand and diversify pBlade offerings in order to deliver choice,
flexibility and performance to our customers. Working closely with Intel,
we ensure that we're again, one of the first to market with the latest
technologies."
"The new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon processor 7300 series provides the
performance and reliability to handle IT's toughest jobs, such as
virtualization and consolidation," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president,
Digital Enterprise Group, Intel. "The capabilities of Intel processors
running on Egenera's stateless blade architecture offer customers the
enhanced performance they need to run business- and mission-critical
operations smoothly and efficiently."
Availability
The Egenera pBlade family based on the Intel Model x7350 processors will be
commercially available in Q4 of 2007.
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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