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April 21, 2008
Egenera Brings VMware Virtualization to BladeFrame
MARLBORO, Mass., April 14 -- Egenera Inc., the datacenter virtualization company, today announced the general availability of VMware virtualization on Egenera systems with full support from Egenera and its resellers. Under the companies' original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement announced in 2007, customers can purchase VMware Infrastructure 3, the market-leading datacenter virtualization and management platform, with the Egenera BladeFrame system, a platform designed to support large-scale virtualized deployments of critical applications with high levels of availability and scalability.
The Egenera BladeFrame system combines diskless server blades with PAN Manager software, an infrastructure virtualization product that virtualizes datacenter infrastructure and delivers a highly available, flexible computing platform. Using VMware virtualization, customers can create and run virtual machines on the BladeFrame system to partition Egenera Processing Blade (pBlade) modules and run multiple operating systems and applications securely on a single blade. The Egenera BladeFrame system's built-in redundancy and high availability make it an ideal platform on which to run business-critical applications on virtual machines.
Egenera extends the benefits of VMware virtualization by providing:
- 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.
- A full range of processors and memory, including both high-performance blades with up to 96GB 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 for 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 at 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 datacenter."
About Egenera Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in datacenter 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 www.egenera.com.
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Source: Egenera Inc.
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