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BroadRiver Chooses Egenera for New Hosted Virtualization Products and Services
Egenera Solutions With vBlade Software Increase Agility and Availability for Competitive Advantage
| Source: Egenera
MARLBORO, MA--(Marketwire - June 30, 2008) - Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization
company, today announced that BroadRiver Communications Corporation, a
leading service provider delivering a complete line of quality, reliable
voice and data services designed for growing businesses, has chosen the
Egenera® BladeFrame® system and Egenera vBlade software for its new
hosted virtual server offering.
BroadRiver combines the best of both worlds -- a full selection of products
and services that can be customized to customer needs with prices for
bundled services that are competitively priced. The customer's solution
contains just the services they need, without having to pay a premium for
not fitting into an inflexible "package." This flexibility enables
BroadRiver to effectively provide customized solutions to many customers of
different sizes, sectors and lines of business.
Egenera systems are highly available, flexible platforms that eliminate the
need for managing numerous physical infrastructure components required in
other platforms to provide value added services. With its patented
Processing Area Network (PAN) virtualization technology, Egenera® PAN
Manager™ software replaces physical components with software equivalents
and can repurpose and reallocate both physical servers and virtual
machines, on demand or automatically. By virtualizing compute, storage and
networking resources, PAN Manager software can quickly and dynamically
re-allocate these resources in response to changes in business needs and
opportunities, enabling customers to increase agility, decrease time to
market, and reduce data center complexity.
"Among the many differentiators driving BroadRiver's success is its strong
focus on offering users new products with enhanced functionality, while
delivering higher service levels and reducing costs," said Joe Sheehan, CEO
at BroadRiver. "The key differentiator with Egenera is the ability to
manage all of our resources -- physical and virtual -- in a tightly
integrated platform with a single management interface. This reduces
operational costs, which in turn means savings that we can pass on to our
clients. We also use Egenera's automatic failover capability to provide
higher service levels to our customers."
Egenera vBlade software is an extension to Egenera PAN Manager software,
which together allow customers to manage both their physical servers and
virtual machines from a single interface and with all the high-level
services Egenera provides for physical servers, including disaster
recovery, N+1 failover and rapid re-provisioning. By integrating leading
hypervisor technology directly into PAN Manager software, customers can
easily allocate either a full server or a partition of a server based on
the needs of the application. This approach eliminates the complexity of
managing virtual machines and physical servers in different ways and
eliminates the need to add another domain expert into the IT organization.
Sheehan continued, "Without using vBlade software we would certainly have
had to add hardware, software and resources to the environment. Now that
we can easily configure, change, manage and re-configure both physical and
virtual computing resources with the Egenera solution, we have gained a
competitive advantage to deliver a better set of hosted virtual products
and services to our customers."
"As we continue to deploy the Egenera solution to our customer base, we see
the opportunity to offer more value-added products and services including
disaster recovery, service-level and usage based pricing, and expanded
co-location services," concluded Sheehan.
"We're pleased to be working with BroadRiver, a visionary company with a
strong value proposition for a broad set of customers," said Mike Thompson,
president and CEO, Egenera. "Like BroadRiver, more and more
service-oriented companies are implementing Egenera solutions to improve
their responsiveness to ever changing customer requirements, offer better,
cost effective reliability, and lower operational costs. We look forward
to working closely to ensure Egenera continues to provide competitive
advantage for BroadRiver and all our customers going forward."
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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