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Egenera Grows Assured Solution Alliances Program
| Source: Egenera
MARLBORO, MA--(Marketwire - June 26, 2007) - Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization
company, today welcomed BEZ Systems, Centromeric Inc., GroundWork Open
Source Inc. and Kokolink Co. to the Egenera® Assured Solution Alliances
program. The Egenera Assured Solution Alliances program leverages an
assurance process designed to ensure the interoperability of third-party
software solutions with the Egenera® BladeFrame® system. Moreover, a
relationship is forged between Egenera's support organization and each
member's support team. The result is a highly integrated, seamless service
standard for joint-customer engagements.
BEZ Systems
BEZ Systems shares the Egenera focus on lowering IT costs and providing
superior service while making the management of IT easier. BEZ provides "a
business lens on IT™" that connects infrastructure performance to
business service goals and predicts future service levels. This proactive
approach allows enterprises to get out of wasteful "react-mode." BEZ
ensures uninterrupted service, insulates the business from change, and
gives the enterprise the time and information necessary to make
cost-effective decisions.
The BEZ business lens on IT has tactical, short-term benefits for problem
isolation and change impact analysis as well as strategic impact when
applied to activity profiling and performance planning. By partnering with
innovative companies like Egenera, customers benefit by having the
information they need to make timely, well-informed decisions regarding
system and application performance.
Centromeric Inc.
Centromeric is a leading provider of next generation data center automation
software that helps fast-moving organizations cost-effectively manage IT
operations in large distributed data centers.
The Centromeric solution -- developed with a modular architecture and focus
on security, scalability and usability -- automates end-to-end life-cycle
management of servers across heterogeneous operating systems. The
Centromeric Data Center Automation Suite includes modules for bare metal
provisioning, application provisioning, patch management, server
management, inventory, auditing and compliance. The Egenera BladeFrame
system, combined with Centromeric Data Center Automation Suite, enables
customers to improve service levels and simultaneously reduce IT
infrastructure and operating expenses. Centromeric Data Center Automation
Suite deployed on the Egenera system can seamlessly scale to manage server
lifecycles in the most demanding data center environments.
GroundWork Open Source Inc.
GroundWork Open Source is a leader in open source IT management software.
The company unifies leading open source software to deliver comprehensive
IT operations management solutions at a fraction of the cost of commercial
software.
GroundWork and Egenera have teamed up to offer a comprehensive solution for
monitoring the performance and availability of the Egenera BladeFrame
system. GroundWork Monitor Professional works in concert with the Egenera
PAN Managersoftware to monitor the health and status of the entire
BladeFrame system, including Control Blade (cBlade) and Processing Blade
(pBlade) modules. Information is displayed via GroundWork's integrated
console, while key personnel can be automatically alerted via email or
pager should a serious issue arise.
Kokolink Co.
Kokolink Co. offers a more efficient way to manage businesses through
consultation and IT system construction services. Based on each company's
specific business model, financial condition and business needs, Kokolink's
specialists propose the best suited software, hardware and network system
for the ideal combination of low cost, maximum efficiency and high
performance.
Kokolink is the provider of Kokolink Replication II, a highly available
relational database management system (RDBMS) offering exact and real-time
database replication both locally and remotely. Local replication on the
Egenera BladeFrame system provides extremely high availability of database
access to joint clients. Compatibility with the Egenera system also allows
for quick and easy migration of existing systems. There is no need to
write original control scripts because Kokolink Replication II has
autonomous role control for failing over and synchronizing. Kokolink
Replication II is based on PostgreSQL, an advanced open source database
application.
"Our rapidly growing roster of Assured Solution Alliances members further
validates Egenera's commitment to customer choice and flexibility," said
Kathy Yenke, vice president, Business Alliances for Egenera. "We are very
pleased to welcome our new partners to the program. Joint customers can
be confident that they are deriving maximum value, exceptional performance
and competitive advantage from Egenera's combined solutions offerings."
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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