MARLBORO, MA--(Marketwire - December 11, 2007) - Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization
company, today announced that ExactTarget, the leading provider of
on-demand, one-to-one marketing software, services and integrated
solutions, has chosen Egenera® systems with vBlade™ software as a key
part of its infrastructure to support nearly a billion outgoing emails each
month. Over 6,000 organizations worldwide -- including The Home Depot,
Papa John's, Cold Stone Creamery and CareerBuilder.com -- rely on the
ExactTarget platform for their integrated email marketing needs.
As new customers are added, or the scale or sophistication of current
customers' email marketing initiatives increase, the amount of data managed
and number of emails sent by ExactTarget multiplies dramatically. vBlade
software, an extension to Egenera's patented PAN Manager™ software, met
ExactTarget's need to scale quickly and efficiently. vBlade software
seamlessly integrates third-party hypervisor technology into Egenera PAN
Manager, enabling administrators to logically partition a physical blade to
run multiple operating systems and applications, without the use of
separate management tools for virtual machines. With vBlade, ExactTarget
can easily allocate either a full blade or a partition of a blade based on
the needs of the application, ensuring both appropriate utilization and
maximum efficiency. As a result of using vBlade software, ExactTarget can
achieve peak performance gains, especially pertaining to traffic between
the application server pools.
"Over-provisioning was something we did for peace of mind with our former
legacy architecture," said Jim Saricos, director of Data and Performance
Management at ExactTarget. "Egenera vBlade software now gives us the
ability to automatically provision resources depending on the workload,
avoiding the issue of underutilization. Egenera is the cornerstone of our
new technology approach and our standard going forward."
With Egenera vBlade software, ExactTarget is able to configure, allocate,
repurpose and manage all virtual and physical resources through a single
interface with automatic N+1 failover and disaster recovery.
"The tightly integrated, single management domain for both the physical and
virtual environment has been incredibly valuable to our existing business,"
continued Saricos. "With Egenera vBlade software, we're able to reconfigure
on the fly and provision servers at least 50 percent faster than with our
former solution."
Egenera vBlade software provides an entirely new and simple way to manage
both physical servers and virtual machines. With vBlade software, virtual
or physical resources are configured, allocated, repurposed and managed all
through the familiar PAN Manager interface in exactly the same manner.
vBlade software allows users to take advantage of a full range of
integrated virtualization services including:
-- N+1 automatic failover
-- N+1 disaster recovery
-- Resource pooling
-- BladeFarms™
-- Suspend/resume
-- Live Migration
-- Security
Egenera Professional Services
ExactTarget engaged Egenera Professional Services (PS) for its Indianapolis
and Las Vegas data center implementations.
"Egenera PS was a significant resource, ensuring seamless integration,
quick deployment and thorough knowledge transfer to the staff," said
Saricos. "I would strongly recommend that anyone engage Egenera
Professional Services for their project, I can't speak highly enough of the
group."
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 ExactTarget
ExactTarget helps clients increase sales, optimize marketing investments,
and strengthen relationships through integrated, on-demand software that
powers permission-based email marketing, mobile messaging, and one-to-one
communications. As the market leader, over 6,000 organizations worldwide --
including The Home Depot, Papa John's, Cold Stone Creamery and
CareerBuilder.com -- rely on the ExactTarget platform for their integrated
email marketing needs. ExactTarget is headquartered in Indianapolis,
Indiana. For more information, please visit
http://www.exacttarget.com.
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Contact Information: Press Contacts:
Gillian Farquhar
Egenera, Inc.
508-858-3262
gfarquhar@egenera.com