News Facts
-- Egenera announces general availability of its new family of 2-socket
Egenera® Processing Blade offerings based on Intel® 5500 series
processors, previously codenamed "Nehalem."
-- New 8-core Processing Blade (pBlade™) modules will deliver up to
60% more processing performance with Intel's 2.93 GHz processor, lower
power consumption and expanded memory configurations of up to 192GB.
-- Egenera pBlade architecture reduces the number of adapters, cables and
switches for SAN connectivity to reduce capital and operational expenses.
-- New Egenera pBlades for the Egenera BladeFrame® EX and ES systems
are compatible with all BladeFrame products shipped over the past eight
years providing customers with maximum choice and flexibility.
-- Egenera pBlades are diskless and stateless, enabling automated
allocation, repurposing and failover, since any processing blade can assume
the identity of any other server, whether physical or virtual.
-- Egenera pBlades coupled with PAN Manager® Software by Egenera
enables customers to manage their mission-critical data centers through
flexible role- and policy-based management software to reduce complexity
while increasing business flexibility.
Supporting Quotes
"Egenera continues to offer its customers the greatest choice and
flexibility. Leveraging Intel's latest technology, the new Egenera pBlades
provide businesses with more effective and lower power solutions than
previously available with 4-socket solutions, at 2-socket pricing," said
Pete Manca, executive vice president of engineering and CTO of Egenera.
"Egenera's newest blades adapt processor performance to application demands
and intelligently scale based on utilization requirements."
Support Resources
Egenera Bladeframe (http://www.egenera.com/products-bladeframe.htm)
Egenera pBlades (http://www.egenera.com/pblade-options.htm)
About Egenera, Inc.
Egenera makes every data center a reliable dynamic data center, quickly and
easily. The company's integrated enterprise data center solutions,
powerful PAN Manager® Software by Egenera and professional services are
trusted globally to deliver proven value through agility, reliability and
availability. Egenera solutions and services guarantee wire-once, always
on, physical and virtual management across the data center with measurable
savings. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide.
For more information visit http://www.egenera.com, call 508-858-2600 or
send email to info@egenera.com.
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and pBlade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Egenera, Inc. in the
United States and other countries. All other company and product names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. The
information in this document is subject to change without notice.
Contact Information: Contact Info Christine Crandell Egenera +1 415 309 7017 ccrandell@egenera.com