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Egenera Forges Strategic Alliance With Jardine OneSolution in Singapore
| Source: Egenera
MARLBORO, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 17, 2007 --Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization
company, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with
Jardine OneSolution (JOS), one of Asia's leading providers of integrated
information technology solutions and services. JOS is a member of the
Jardine Matheson Group, an Asian-based conglomerate with extensive
experience in the Asia Pacific region, and has been a leading force in the
IT industry for more than 50 years. Under the terms of the agreement, JOS
will resell the full suite of Egenera® technologies to a broad customer
base in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
According to IDC, the Asia Pacific server market is expected to be the
fastest growing market among the top four server markets in the world(1).
In 2006, the Asia Pacific region became the third largest server market in
terms of spending. Given the region's hyper growth, the new alliance with
JOS is a strategic agreement that will help Egenera further penetrate key
markets, grow its overall Asia Pacific presence and drive new business and
opportunities in the region.
Egenera was founded in 2000 by the former CTO of Goldman Sachs who was
struggling with the challenges of increasing cost and complexity in his IT
environment. Based on this experience, Egenera has pioneered a new
computing architecture specifically designed to reduce data center
complexity, resulting in unmatched infrastructure agility, availability and
cost-effectiveness. Egenera's data center virtualization architecture --
the Processing Area Network (PAN) -- attacks the underlying cause of
complexity in the data center by eliminating layers of software and
hardware components, while leveraging the cost and performance benefits of
industry standard technologies such as Intel®, AMD, Windows® and
Linux®, and delivering an integrated processing platform designed for
critical applications. Hundreds of forward thinking companies trust their
most critical applications to Egenera everyday.
"Egenera provides highly-available, flexible and fully integrated solutions
that our financial services, telecommunications, commercial and government
customer base is looking for," said Kent Lee, sales and account management
director, Jardine OneSolution. "In addition, the innovative technology
that Egenera provides will greatly enhance our current line of IT solution
and service offerings, further ensuring that JOS is able to meet the most
demanding business needs of our customers."
"Jardine OneSolution is the ideal candidate for a strategic, experienced
and capable reseller partner in Singapore, which with a GDP growing at
nearly 10 percent annually, is a very important market for Egenera," said
Mike Thompson, president and CEO, Egenera. "Jardine OneSolution's
extensive customer base, which spans multiple industries and includes many
leading companies, is proof of their expertise in delivering integrated IT
solutions and services providing true business value to customers. Their
widespread connections and capabilities will bring immense value and we
look forward to growing this relationship for mutual success."
About Egenera Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in delivering data center virtualization
solutions that reduce costs and complexity for hundreds of forward thinking
companies. 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.
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(1) Saxena, Avneesh and Rajnish Arora. Asia/Pacific Quarterly Enterprise
Server Tracker. IDC June 2006.