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Egenera Developing Processing Blade Based On Itanium 2 Processor

Egenera Inc announced that it recently began developing a two-way Egenera Processing Blade configuration based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor.

"We believe the Itanium 2 processor brings the performance, standards and volume economics of the Intel Architecture to the most data-intensive, business-critical segments of enterprise computing," said Susan Davis, vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "Our customers, many of whom run critical database and transaction-processing applications on the BladeFrame architecture, can benefit from the value of Itanium for these services."

Davis continued, "Also significant, users will be able to combine Itanium 2 processor-based Processing Blades and Intel Xeon processor-based Processing Blades within a single BladeFrame system. As datacenters increasingly adopt utility computing, this capability is designed to ensure that resources are routinely available to every application running on the Egenera platform."

"Itanium 2 processor-based platforms, such as the new Egenera Processing Blade, enable end users to improve return on investment by delivering Intel's industry-leading performance at generally lower cost than proprietary RISC technologies," said Richard Dracott, general manager of enterprise marketing and planning at Intel. "By giving customers access to both Itanium 2 processor- and Intel Xeon processor-based blades, Egenera can broaden the range of applications supported by a BladeFrame utility computing model."