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Egenera Awarded Best Virtualization Solution at BladeSystems Insight
Senior-Level Attendees Award Egenera Top Honors for Innovation and Business Value
| Source: Egenera
MARLBORO, MA--(Marketwire - May 30, 2008) - Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization
company, today announced its award for Best Virtualization Product at
BladeSystems Insight, a prominent summit for data center-focused IT
executives. Nominated and voted on solely by attendees, the Insight Award
for Best Virtualization Solution recognizes the most innovative
virtualization solution that drives business value for end-users. This is
the second consecutive year Egenera has been awarded the event's top
virtualization honor. Other nominated companies in Egenera's category were
HP and Neterion.
This year's summit featured five awards recognizing vendor excellence,
along with an end-user award. In addition to the Best Virtualization
category, other categories included, Best Presentation, Best Blade Server
Hardware, Best Data Center Innovation and Best Green Data Center Solution.
Votes are cast near the end of the event, when attendees have had the
opportunity to experience and evaluate the full range of companies,
products and presentations. The Best Virtualization Product category was
complemented by virtualization products showcased at the Summit, as well as
multiple analyst presentations and panels on the topic of virtualization.
"BladeSystems Insight congratulates Egenera on its Best Virtualization
Product Award at our recent summit in Tucson, Arizona. Because the awards
are voted upon by our senior-level audience of end-user IT executives from
across North America, this is further confirmation of Egenera's market
leadership and innovation in virtualization."
"The most important measure of our success is feedback from end-users, so
we're particularly gratified for the recognition from the organizers and
attendees at BladeSystems Insight," said Mike Thompson, president and CEO,
Egenera. "Customers are recognizing that the next step in virtualization
is server infrastructure virtualization. Many companies talk about taking
their customers on a 'journey toward an agile and adaptable infrastructure'
-- but at Egenera, we're not just talking; we're delivering that
functionality and value today. We continue to strive to provide the most
powerful server infrastructure virtualization software that drives down
costs and delivers true data center simplicity for our customers."
About Egenera, Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in data center virtualization solutions that
reduce costs and complexity for enterprises, service providers and public
sector agencies worldwide. Egenera integrated hardware and virtualization
software solutions virtualize compute, storage and networking
infrastructure, and provide a full suite of integrated virtualization
management services for high-availability, disaster recovery, dynamic
re-provisioning, security and administration. 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 http://www.egenera.com, call
508-858-2600 or send email to info@egenera.com.
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