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Egenera K.K. Strengthens Collaboration With SAP Japan
SAP Competency Center Announced at Egenera Tokyo Headquarters
| Source: Egenera
TOKYO--(Marketwire - September 24, 2008) - Egenera K.K., a wholly owned subsidiary of Egenera,
Inc., today announced closer collaboration with SAP Japan Co., Ltd. in
Japan. Egenera will open an SAP® Competence Center in its Shinjuku
office to promote and support SAP® enterprise technology on Egenera®
solutions. Egenera also operates an SAP Competence Center at SAP's global
headquarters in Walldorf, Germany, and at Egenera's corporate headquarters
in Marlboro, Mass., USA. Egenera is committed to delivering complete and
flexible solutions for customers based on open, industry standards across a
host of industries.
As an SAP global technology partner, Egenera has numerous large-scale
installations of SAP solution-based systems worldwide. Through its newest
SAP Competence Center, Egenera will provide Japanese customers with sizing
services and benchmarks, as well as integration, optimized performance and
high-availability of SAP applications running on Egenera solutions.
Egenera's integrated enterprise data center solutions, its powerful PAN
Manager® software and professional services are trusted globally to
deliver proven value through agility and availability. Enterprise
customers worldwide trust their SAP applications to PAN Manager software,
which is available across a wide selection of hardware platforms,
processors and operating systems.
"We welcome the strengthened partnership between SAP and Egenera. We're
looking forward to the new opportunities we expect will arise from this
deeper relationship and to further promote Egenera solutions in Japan,"
commented Garrett Ilg, president and CEO, SAP Japan Co., Ltd.
Egenera delivers an ideal platform for SAP applications, offering critical
capabilities including dynamic provisioning, guaranteed uptime and
automatic failover, making it easier to build a disaster recovery (DR) site
by using the company's patented DR functionality. PAN Manager software
makes it simple for customers to construct and manage the three-tier
application infrastructure recommended by SAP, which provides appropriate
resources for development, staging and production, quickly and without
manual intervention.
"We're pleased to expand our relationship with SAP -- both in terms of our
new Competence Center and our continued support of customers," said Minoru
Ohki, president of Egenera K.K. "Today's announcement significantly
strengthens our ongoing strategic partnership in terms of immediate
business value for both our companies and our customers."
About Egenera Inc.
Egenera makes every data center a reliable dynamic data center, quickly and
easily. The company's integrated enterprise data center solutions,
powerful PAN Manager® software and professional services are trusted
globally to deliver proven value through agility, reliability and
availability. Egenera solutions and services guarantee
wire-once, always on, physical and virtual management across the data
center with measurable savings. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera
has offices worldwide. For more information visit http://www.egenera.com,
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