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Egenera Chosen by Pioneer Investments for Mission Critical Application Infrastructure
Sets stage for Dynamic Reprovisioning and Reallocation of Resources
| Source: Egenera
MARLBORO, MA--(Marketwire - September 10, 2007) - Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization
company, today announced that Pioneer Investments has selected Egenera as
the platform to support its mission critical PeopleSoft infrastructure and
other applications. With over $50 billion in assets under management,
Pioneer offers investment management services to institutional investors
and individuals, and is an investment manager for over 50 mutual funds.
Pioneer relies heavily on a mission critical infrastructure for ongoing
reporting comprised of Oracle-PeopleSoft Financials accessed through
Citrix® Presentation Server™. Serving thousands of end-users
globally, there was a clear need for high availability as well as high
performance throughput, and a flexible platform for building a dynamic
infrastructure to best support changes in priorities. Pioneer chose
Egenera to dynamically reprovision resources, consolidate infrastructure,
remove bottlenecks, and take advantage of the inherent N+1 failover and
high availability of the Egenera® BladeFrame® system. The Egenera
system, which was in full production at Pioneer in less than three weeks,
has already cut reporting time significantly.
"Supporting any mission critical system means the platform has to be
low-latency, scalable, secure and always available -- those are givens.
But we also knew we needed a better way to get more out of our
infrastructure -- dynamically reallocating resources as needed, depending
on the time of day or night. Egenera proved they could meet all of our
growing needs," said Christopher Chapin, vice president of Infrastructure
Services at Pioneer. "Every move we make from a technology perspective has
to accommodate our growth, as well as entry into new markets. We see
Egenera as a key platform moving forward with other strategic applications
and initiatives."
The Egenera system's powerful virtualization technology, effective use of
resources and inherent high availability drove the decision and were key
differentiators compared to offerings from other providers. The Egenera
BladeFrame system is meeting Pioneer's near-term performance and
consolidation needs, while supporting their strategic vision of a more
flexible and responsive data center infrastructure. Pioneer also intends
to implement disaster recovery utilizing Egenera going forward.
"Pioneer is a perfect example of a forward-thinking company that is
building a truly flexible and responsive data center through data center
virtualization and Egenera," said Mike Thompson, president and CEO of
Egenera. "When a business is growing as rapidly as Pioneer, data center
infrastructure must deliver flexibility, availability and performance,
while reducing operational costs. It's gratifying to know that Egenera is
helping Pioneer achieve their strategic goals."
The Egenera BladeFrame system dynamically allocates and repurposes servers
to applications as needed without manual intervention. With its integrated
system of diskless processing resources and virtualization software,
Egenera has set a new standard for performance and business value in the
enterprise data center. Egenera has been shipping its data center
virtualization system since 2001, bringing unmatched experience and
innovation to hundreds of enterprises, service providers and government
agencies worldwide.
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.
About Pioneer Investments
Pioneer Investments is the trade name for Pioneer Global Asset Management
S.p.A. and its subsidiaries, a global investment firm with offices in 22
countries and approximately $319.4 billion in assets under management as of
July 31, 2007, of which approximately $81.3 billion was managed in the U.S.
Founded in 1928, our flagship mutual fund, Pioneer Fund, is the
third-oldest mutual fund in the U.S. Pioneer Investment Management, Inc.
is the investment advisory subsidiary of Pioneer Investment Management USA
Inc., which is the North American operating subsidiary of Pioneer Global
Asset Management S.p.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of UniCredito Italiano
S.p.A.
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