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Egenera Awarded Best Virtualization Product at BladeSystems Insight
| Source: Egenera
MARLBORO, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 24, 2007 -- Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization
company, today announced that it has been awarded "Best Virtualization
Product" at BladeSystems Insight, the only national summit focused on
blade-based data center solutions. Recognized worldwide for pioneering a
new computing architecture -- the Processing Area Network (PAN) -- Egenera
data center virtualization solutions attack the root cause of data center
complexity to deliver an integrated, virtualized, agile platform designed
for critical applications.
Voted on by attendees, the Insight Award for "Best Virtualization Product"
recognizes the most innovative virtualization solution that drives the
greatest business value for end-users. Susan Davis, vice president of
marketing, Egenera, also participated on a featured panel titled, "Rise of
Virtualization in the Data Center" along with executives from AMD, Citrix,
IBM and Intel.
"Egenera's knowledge and leadership pertaining to virtualization greatly
enhanced discussions around data center solutions at BladeSystems Insight,"
said Philip McKay, president and CEO, PPM Media Inc., producer of the
event. "Egenera's philosophy and approach to the data center are quite
unique and effective, and this was recognized by our IT executive attendees
through their votes for the Best Virtualization Product award. We
congratulate Egenera on this well-deserved honor."
"Feedback from the industry is an important means of judging a solution's
relevance to the market," said Susan Davis, vice president at Egenera.
"This award is further validation that the value we bring to combat data
center complexity is unique and needed. We're gratified for the
recognition from the organizers and attendees at BladeSystems Insight."
Egenera was founded in 2000 by the former CTO of Goldman Sachs who sought
to reduce the complexity and improve competitive advantage in his own
environment with an agile, virtualized data center. Today, hundreds of
forward thinking companies trust their most critical applications to
Egenera every day.
About Egenera Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in delivering data center virtualization
solutions that simplify operations and infrastructure. The Egenera
BladeFrame system simplifies 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 the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important
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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