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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 9, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 23
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Systems/Enterprise:
AXCELEON AND EGENERA FORM
STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP
Axceleon, a leader in computational grid software, announced that it has
joined the Egenera Assured Solution Alliances program, certifying its EnFuzion
software for the Egenera BladeFrame environment through rigorous testing in
Egenera labs.
Axceleon and Egenera have joined forces to address the growing need for
grid
computing technologies. Axceleon's EnFuzion software automates and accelerates
computationally intensive applications, such as risk management and financial
modeling software. Together, Egenera and Axceleon offer a compelling solution
for organizations seeking to improve performance while realizing an amazing
time-to-value.
"Egenera's award-winning BladeFrame coupled with EnFuzion offers
organizations
the ability to deploy a high-end, high-performance computing solution at an
extremely compelling price point," stated Michael Duffy, president and CEO at
Axceleon. "The BladeFrame's Processing Area Network architecture which
integrates high-speed networking, built-in clustering and the industry's most
powerful blade servers ideally complements EnFuzion's ability to optimize and
accelerate application performance, delivering a total solution to
end-users."
"By notably increasing processor utilization rates, EnFuzion can have a
quantifiable impact on datacenter total cost of ownership. As such, the
Axceleon solution nicely complements our BladeFrame system, which was designed
to dramatically lower the cost of enterprise computing," said Susan Davis,
vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "Moreover, the
BladeFrame's virtualized architecture which enables users to run any
application on any resource at any timeis ideally suited for the
high-performance grid computing EnFuzion enables. We are pleased to welcome
Axceleon to the Assured Solution Alliances program and look forward to
bringing the benefits of our combined solution to mutual customers."
"Organizations find themselves dealing with several market trends
simultaneously. Budgetary constraints, increasing needs for IT services,
requirements to improve both reliability and availability, heightened security
requirements, increasing requirements to support many types of access point
devices, and a variety of business issues are all on the minds of IT
executives," said Dan Kusnetzky, IDC's vice president of system software
research. "They are also increasingly concerned with obtaining the best
possible levels of scalability and performance while keeping their hardware
acquisition costs in line. Grid computing software, such as that provided by
Axceleon, and fully virtualized environments, like those offered by Egenera,
certainly help organizations achieve their goals."
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