-- Automatic protection and recovery of VMware virtual machines;
-- Simple, three-step disaster recovery of all VMware ESX hosts;
-- Reduced complexity and administration of virtual machines through
Egenera's I/O virtualization capabilities; and
-- A full range of processors and memory, including both high-performance
blades with up to 96 GB of memory in a 1U form factor to maximize virtual
machine deployments, as well as low power consumption options to conserve
costs.
"VMware and Egenera offer complementary technologies. We're pleased that
customers can now deploy VMware virtualization on the BladeFrame platform
with the peace of mind that their investments are fully supported by
Egenera," said Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and solutions,
VMware, Inc. "As our relationship grows, we see additional areas for
collaboration in managing both physical and virtual assets. We hope to
further extend the business value of VMware virtualization and continue
providing joint solutions that enable customers to reduce operating
expenses, improve business continuity, strengthen security and go green."
"VMware continues to lead the virtualization market with solutions that
support production workloads and help customers consolidate hardware
resources. The BladeFrame system's built-in N+1 failover and simple,
reliable disaster recovery capabilities make it an ideal platform to extend
VMware virtualization deployments," said Pete Manca, CTO and executive vice
president of engineering, Egenera, Inc. "We continue to explore
opportunities for future collaboration with VMware and are pleased to be
able to fuse two best-of-breed solutions for a more efficient and agile
enterprise data center."
Pricing and Availability
Compatibility and support for VMware Infrastructure 3 licenses is available
immediately as part of the standard PAN Manager software suite. More
information is available at info@egenera.com.
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 hardware and 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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