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PAN Manager has been developed over 7+ years and has become the leading Data Center Virtualization software on the market. This software, coupled with our mission-critical, fabric-based, hardware platform makes for an incredibly robust and secure platform for mission critical applications. Taking PAN and extending it to support other hardware allows us to bring the same value proposition to commodity hardware. Data Center Virtualization, or Virtualization 2.0 as discussed in my last blog, is about simplifying the data center. This can’t be done taking a narrow hardware view. Porting PAN to commodity hardware will allow PAN to have a dramatic impact on the data center. Specifically, today we announced that we will be making PAN Manager available on select partners' hardware platforms. We're doing this for two reasons:

1. To give customers further flexibility and choice in how they deploy this powerful software and
2. To increase our global distribution channels and addressable market

We'll continue to innovate and advance our BladeFrame family of solutions in tandem with this new software business. We believe that the BladeFrame continues to offer the highest-performance solution designed for customers' most business and mission critical applications. In the coming weeks and months, we'll be making further announcements about which partners we're going to market with and when the solutions will be available. We look forward to leading the industry into the next phase of virtualization.