Egenera Grows Assured Solution Alliances Program

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 Manager™software 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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