Systems/Enterprise:
Egenera RECEIVES GRID MULTI-SYSTEM
ORDER FROM JP MORGAN CHASE & CO
Egenera Inc, a leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure,
announced
that it has received a multi-system order for its Egenera BladeFrame from
JP Morgan Chase.
The BladeFrame units are being deployed as the first hardware platform in
JPMorgan's grid computing initiative, "Compute Backbone." Compute Backbone is
a cost-effective, adaptable infrastructure that makes CPU capacity available
as a centralized, shared network service by pooling and isolating processing
resources for compute-intensive applications.
"Across our engagements with world-class companies, it is clear that the
BladeFrame is the right solution at the right time," said Debbie Miller,
president and CEO, Egenera.
"With IT budgets flat or shrinking, and application requirements on the
rise,
the only way to spend more on development is to spend less on infrastructure.
The Egenera system delivers better functionality than proprietary Unix
platforms at less than half the cost." BladeFrame Architecture Supports
Compute Backbone
The Egenera BladeFrame assembles purpose-built hardware and virtualization
software in a fully integrated platform. Key attributes of this breakthrough
system include: Server Virtualization: An essential element of Compute
Backbone is the ability to automatically allocate processing nodes across
applications based on immediate business priorities.
The BladeFrame's diskless architecture and virtualization software create
the
industry's only stateless computing resource, enabling a datacenter to
dynamically allocate any node to any application in minutes.
Price/performance: By leveraging the Linux operating system and Intel
processors in a mainframe-class system, Egenera delivers the only architecture
to make Lintel viable for high-end datacenters. This price/performance
equation lowers TCO and creates a powerful competitive advantage.
Scalability: Egenera's use of a blade form factor enables a system
administrator to replace a failed node by simply sliding a new module into the
chassis. Egenera PAN Manager software then automates server configuration
to virtually eliminate system administration requirements. Adding capacity to
the BladeFrame is equally effortless.
The Egenera BladeFrame System The Egenera BladeFrame, with its Processing
Area
Network (PAN) architecture, assembles purpose-built hardware and
virtualization software in a fully integrated computing platform that enables
enterprise-class datacenters to achieve savings, optimize availability and
drive market agility.
The BladeFrame combines the reliability and manageability of a mainframe,
the
scalability of grid distributed computing and the price/performance of
commodity components to deliver the only processing architecture to make
Lintel viable
for mission-critical applications.
Leveraging the Red Hat Linux operating system, the BladeFrame creates a
pool
of up to 96 Intel Xeon processors on 24 Egenera Processing Blade resources
that are deployed entirely through Egenera PAN Manager software. Processing
power can be dynamically increased, decreased and reallocated to support new
applications or accommodate variable demand on existing applications without
purchasing, installing or managing incremental equipment.
About Egenera Inc
Egenera has delivered tomorrow's datacenter today by integrating hardware,
software, networking and services into simple, yet powerful machines.
Privately held, the Company has assembled a senior management team and
engineering staff with an average 20-plus years' experience working with the
industry's foremost providers and users of enterprise-class hardware and
software systems.
This collective technical, customer and business experience uniquely
positions
Egenera to reinvent datacenter computing. Relationships with EMC, Intel,
Oracle and Red Hat, among others, further strengthen the value proposition.
Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass, Egenera has offices in Charlotte, Chicago,
Dallas, London, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo, Toronto and
Washington D.C.
http://www.egenera.com
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