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Egenera Awarded N+1 Disaster Recovery Patent
Company's Innovative Approach Makes DR Affordable and Verifiable
| Source: Egenera
MARLBORO, MA--(Marketwire - June 19, 2007) - Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization
company, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has
issued U.S. Patent No. 7,178,059 to the company for its innovation in N+1
disaster recovery. Entitled "Disaster recovery for processing resources
using configurable deployment platform," this patent further confirms
Egenera as a leader in verifiable, cost-effective disaster recovery. Since
the company's inception in 2000, Egenera has earned numerous patents in
virtualization, failover, and power and cooling.
Egenera's disaster recovery technology simplifies and accelerates moving
entire clusters of servers, including their storage and networking
connections, to a remote site. Leveraging Egenera's Processing Area
Network (PAN) architecture, clusters are reinstated within minutes at the
new site, without hardware configuration. A single back-up site can adopt
the configuration of any number of primary sites on demand. This unique
N+1 approach provides complete yet simple disaster recovery at the lowest
cost, without the physical and management complexities typical of physical
replication approaches.
Farm Bureau-Western Computer Services
"During one of our DR tests with Egenera, we had the application up and
running again in three minutes. I've had experiences where even under
planned power downs we would build-in two to three weeks to failover
complex, legacy systems -- and the actual move would have taken seven
hours," said James Crum, manager, Infrastructure Technology Services at
Farm Bureau-Western Computer Services, Inc. "With Egenera -- in concert
with 3PAR® storage -- we are able to literally push a button to get
everything up and running again. The speed that we now have to get
customers back online again is amazing."
Cost and Complexity Stymies Many Enterprise DR Plans
Building and maintaining DR capabilities has historically been complicated
and expensive to implement -- the direct result of legacy infrastructure
not designed for flexibility or responsiveness. A typical DR solution is
to replicate all the servers, switches, routers, NICs, HBAs, cabling,
storage arrays, firewalls, load balancers, monitors, KVMs, etc. physically
from the primary data center to a backup site. In most cases, these
resources earmarked for DR sit idle or "cold" waiting for a failover from
the primary site to occur. As a result, implementing DR with legacy
computing architectures requires twice the physical and management
complexity.
Egenera's approach -- anchored by its PAN architecture -- was specifically
designed to create pools of compute, storage and network resources that can
be dynamically allocated to applications as needed. The PAN virtualizes
server and network resources in the same way that a Storage Area Network
(SAN) virtualizes storage resources, resulting in the ability to securely
share allocate processing resources across applications; dramatically
reduce complexity; enhance agility; and lower the cost of capital and
operational expenses. Since the Egenera PAN is a "stateless" environment,
logical server definitions are automatically replicated between data center
sites, enabling recovery of production applications in minutes.
"We understand that designing, implementing or updating a DR strategy is
one of the most strategic IT projects any organization undertakes.
Replicating rigid, legacy environments across multiple sites only
multiplies complexity and cost by at least a factor of two -- all without
meeting a single acceptable recovery time objective," said Pete Manca, EVP
of engineering and CTO, Egenera. "Egenera's approach to verifiable
disaster recovery is anchored in the fact that a new architecture was
needed in order to simplify the process, reduce the cost and verify the
recovery. Our new patent for N+1 DR is additional proof that our approach
is innovative, effective and verifiable."
Customer Case Studies, Company Whitepapers
Customer case studies and company whitepapers focused on Egenera's approach
to verifiable DR through data center virtualization are available at
http://www.egenera.com/. For more information on Egenera and its
solutions, please contact info@egenera.com or (US) 508.858.3600.
About Egenera Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in delivering data center virtualization
solutions that reduce costs and complexity for enterprises and public
sector agencies worldwide. 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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