-- Real-time, dual-continent failover;
-- 99.9 percent availability (with higher service level options also
available);
-- Lower total cost of operation;
-- On-demand capacity for traffic spikes;
-- Faster application time-to-market;
-- Consistent, scalable performance;
-- Automated fault recovery; and
-- Improved security.
"When launched in 2004, GXS Trading Grid was a truly visionary platform,
taking GXS beyond its legacy as a traditional value added network and
bringing customers new value in the forms of supply chain visibility,
improved B2B functionality and greater efficiencies in cross-business
processes," said Bob Kamba, senior vice president, global operations and
CIO of GXS. "Through its contribution to the GXS Trading Grid platform,
Egenera is helping us take that vision to the next level, building high
availability solutions for our customers and improving the security and
integrity of our customers' transactions."
In concert with technology from EMC, the Egenera BladeFrame improves the
speed and performance of remote duplication and mirroring for failover
between data centers. In the event of a disaster, this functionality
ensures continued operation of GXS Trading Grid in the shortest timeframe
possible. Likewise, Egenera's utility model enables the allocation of a
single Egenera Processing Blade™ resource to back up multiple servers,
supporting 99.9 percent availability.
"Electronic B2B transactions represent a mission-critical source of both
data and revenue for GXS' customers," noted Mike Thompson, president and
CEO, Egenera. "After evaluating blade servers from Egenera and the
market-share leaders, GXS concluded that only the Egenera BladeFrame could
lower costs and complexity while delivering the enterprise functionality
their business required. We are pleased to welcome GXS as an Egenera
customer."
To provide on-demand capacity, Egenera PAN Manager™ software can
identify applications that are under-powered and automatically reallocate
processing resources to accommodate traffic spikes. New services can also
be launched faster than ever before: BladeFrame capacity is deployed in
minutes versus the weeks required to provision GXS' previous mainframe and
RISC hardware.
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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