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Egenera: New pals for PAN Manager: I've spoken about Egenera several times in the past and pointed out that it was one of the very earliest players offering blade computers and the related management software. Egenera called this software PAN (Processing Area Network) manager. PAN manager, at first, was a tool that allowed organizations to orchestrate...; Tags: Blade, Personal Area Network, Egenera Inc., PAN Manager, Bluetooth, Blade Servers, Servers, Wireless, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-03-25
More commentary on Egenera: I've gotten some feedback from some of my comments in my post HP to resell Scalent System's V/OE. One of the more interesting of these came from Susan Davis, VP of Marketing at Egenera. Her comments can be found here: Susan and I have been speaking with one another for...; Tags: Egenera Inc., Virtualization, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Channel Management, Storage Management, Business Structures, Hardware, Servers, Marketing, Storage, Finance, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2007-11-29
HP to resell Scalent System's V/OE: I just heard the news that HPis going to offer Scalent Systems' V/OE as part of the HP BladeSystem c-Class Solution Builder Program. This is obviously good news for Scalent. Here's how Scalent would describe V/OE: Scalent V/OE infrastructure virtualization software enables data center managers to...; Tags: Software, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Egenera Inc., Scalent V/OE, Data Centers, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2007-11-26
Virtualization for Competitive Advantage: Albridge Solutions has migrated from proprietary RISC/UNIX servers to the Egenera BladeFrame system running Linux on x86 processors. Initially, IT considered building a virtualized environment from white boxes, but found that complexity and management would be overwhelming. Blade servers from the industry's largest vendors were also ruled out since their...; Tags: Egenera BladeFrame, Competitive Advantage, Egenera Inc., Albridge Solutions, Blade Servers, Servers, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Hardware; Case studies 2006-09-01
New Egenera blades get liquid cooling: New Egenera blades get liquid coolingGreat!We just get done pushing the water-cooled dinosaur mainframe out of the server room, with it's associated high costs, and roll in the low-cost servers with their air-cooled efficiencies, only now to look at... water cooling them? Yeah, right.A small physics question hereThe processors...; Tags: Blade servers, Mainframes, Servers, Utility computing, Financial services, benefit, Egenera Inc., blade, waste heat, fluid; Discussion threads 2006-01-24

Egenera's BladeFrame EX: Egenera is announcing the BladeFrame EX and cooling partnership Tuesday.; Tags: partnership, Egenera Inc., Egenera BladeFrame; Image galleries 2006-01-24
Egenera's BladeFrame EX: Egenera is announcing the BladeFrame EX and cooling partnership Tuesday.; Tags: partnership, Egenera Inc., Egenera BladeFrame; Image galleries 2006-01-23
Egenera's BladeFrame EX: Egenera is announcing the BladeFrame EX and cooling partnership Tuesday.; Tags: partnership, Egenera Inc., Egenera BladeFrame; Image galleries 2006-01-23
Egenera Better Manages Year-Over-Year Growth, Improves Order Management: Founded in 2000, Egenera made its mark in the high-technology industry as a leader in utility computing while still a lean start-up company. As an emerging-growth company with expanding volumes and geographies, the company determined that their existing ERP and SCM solutions wouldn't be able to scale consistent with their...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Egenera Inc., Order Management, Roi/Tco, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Utility Computing, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software; Case studies
Case Study: Government Portal - Up and Running in 23 Days: Established to help prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, this government Web site was designed to provide a portal for information sharing and collaboration. This government customer needed rapid delivery of a low-cost, high availability infrastructure to support a national-security Web portal. The Egenera BladeFrame system was up and...; Tags: Egenera Inc., High Availability, Portals, Government, Web Technology, Internet; Case studies

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Could 3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment Grow on You?: B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO of 3Leaf Systems, and I had a long, interesting discussion of what it would take to create the proper hardware platform for an agile, highly reliable, high performance environment using industry standard components when and wherever possible. It was pretty clear that that path requires the creation...; Tags: Data Center, Environment, I/O, Industry Standard, Industry, 3Leaf Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-16
News to know: Microsoft, Apple update techniques; Ubuntu; Hacking Java; XP SP3: Notable headlines: Ed Bott: What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates Compare and contrast gallery (right). Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta - making life easier for Windows users Nate McFeters: Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 2 ...; Tags: Tom Foremski, Technique, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Hacking, Social Media, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-25
Disaster recovery means rolling back the clock: A Kusnetzky Group client and I had a rather intense discussion about the role virtualization technology could play in a disaster recovery strategy. Although the strategy this organization was currently pursuing appeared to be based upon sound foundations, it didn't go far enough. This organization really didn't have a planÂ ...; Tags: Data Center, Network, Resource, Silo, Disaster Recovery, Organization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-01-04
Virtual Iron 4.2 - Increased Support for Production Environments: The folks at Virtual Iron have just announced that they've added some important new features to an already very powerful virtualization environment. In addition to their previous focus on consolidation, agility, optimization and availability, Virtual Iron 4.2 adds features designed to improve network performance, increase platform support and expand the...; Tags: Environment, Virtual Server, Server, Virtual Machine, Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Open Source, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2007-12-11
HP to resell Scalent System's V/OE: HP to resell Scalent System's V/OEProduction customers?Dan,Your glowing praise of Scalent continues to mystify me as we have yet to hear publicly about a single production customer talk about their use of Scalent or even their intention to use their product in the enterprise data center. We’ve heard Scalent say...; Tags: Data centers, Tools & Techniques, Marketing research, Hewlett-Packard Co., Scalent; Discussion threads 2007-11-28
Scalent Systems Helps Financial Services Organization Optimize Test and Development: I had the opportunity to interview the Director of Development of a large multinational financial services organization. Since IT is often considered a competitive advantage for these firms, it didn't surprise me that he asked that neither he nor his organization be named in this post.What was being done...; Tags: Benefits, Strategy, Dan Kusnetzky, IT IS, Scalent, benefit, financial; Blog posts 2007-08-28
Improved Agility: A Zeus/Egenera White Paper - Realizing the Benefits of SOA With a Flexible, Responsive Service Orientated Infrastructure: 'Agility' is the theme on every CIO's mind today. IT can contribute to achieving this business imperative through new technologies like Virtualization and Service Orientated Architecture. These promise to solve many pressing problems - the over-provisioning of server hardware, high costs of high availability, excessive power and space consumption, the...; Tags: Zeus Technology, Benefit, SOA, Virtualization, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Storage Management, Utility Computing, Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage; White papers 2006-11-01
In wake of Solaris' renaissance, predictions of its death were obviously premature: Despite predictions of its demise, Unix -- and in particular, Sun's Solaris flavor -- appears to be convalescing instead of following the downward spiral that's typical for operating systems that fall from grace (the PalmOS for example). In June 2004, after Open Source Initiative president Eric Raymond penned...; Tags: Sun Solaris; Blog posts 2005-11-17
AMD puts the 'hammer' down: Emboldened by a new partnership with blade maker Egenera, and by a wave of new AMD-based server offerings from HP, AMD has, at LinuxWorld, rolled out three new Opteron (formerly known as "Hammer") chips, a faster version of its HyperTransport interconnect technology, and enhanced SSE3 support. For the record, AMD...; Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD Opteron; Blog posts 2005-02-14
Scaling Siebel CRM Solutions With Oracle 10g RAC: Customers using Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions are increasingly demanding greater scalability and high availability to support mission-critical operations and continued business growth. Such environments are characterized by 24 X 7 operations and several thousand concurrent users. In addition, many large Siebel customers are interested in leveraging the Linux...; Tags: Oracle Corp., CRM Solution, Siebel Systems Inc., Oracle Application Server 10g, Linux, Blade Servers, Storage, Enterprise Software, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; White papers 2004-11-15