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A great description of PAN

Check out the post fellow blogger and colleague Ken Oestreich wrote recently. It’s a great description of the Processing Area Network. Sometimes a picture/video is better than text and Ken does a great job illustrating the architecture and value of PAN. Given all the buzz around Cisco UCS, Ken’s blog is timely and informative. Way [...] Read More

It’s Deja Vu all over again!

Yogi Berra said it, Cisco just reconfirmed it. Reviewing Cisco’s much-leaked, and much hyped announcement of Project California was like a trip down memory lane. Blade Form Factor – Check! Unified Fabric for IP and Storage traffic – Check! Management Console – Check! Integration with Virtual Machine Management – Check! Sounds oh so PAN like [...] Read More

First fruits from the Dell/Egenera deal

It appears the Egenera/Dell deal is moving forward with velocity. A first joint customer was announced today, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Corporate Data Center Operations (CDCO). This is the first of a pipeline of customers buying-into Infrastructure Orchestration (also referred to as Fabric Computing or Unified Computing) – first offered in 2001 [...] Read More

PAN now available on Dell blade servers

Last year, Egenera announced support for Dell rack mount servers, extending the Processing Area Network architecture to off-the-shelf, industry standard servers. This combination joins the best-in-class Unified Fabric architecture (PAN) with the best-in-class industry standard hardware from Dell. The solution earned early praise from customers and has proven to be a terrific offering for the [...] Read More