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Egenera BladeFrame: The Oldest New IT Architecture

What’s Old is Still in Vogue When was the last time you saw a data center computing architecture that was 10 years old, yet going strong? You may not realize it, but the Egenera BladeFrame is just that. It was created back in 2001 by Vern Brownell (previously CTO at Goldman Sachs) and is still [...] Read More

Open, Converged Infrastructure!

You wouldn’t buy a VM that only worked on only one vendor’s server, would you? Then why buy converged infrastructure & unified computing systems that only support one platform? Today Egenera took another bold step in our converged infrastructure (unified computing) software strategy: We’ve announced that our PAN Manager Software will also be available on [...] Read More

Combining Compatibility with Openness

…or, Having Your Data Center Cake and Eating It Too If unified computing and converged infrastructure are breakthrough IT management concepts, then I’m still mystified why more users don’t protest and ask for more universal, Open converged infrastructure platforms – in addition to the platform-specific ones hardware vendors offer. In response, Egenera is taking another [...] Read More

Analysis: Where vendors are placing their data center bets

Or, The tale of the universal remote vs. integrated audio There are 2 IT infrastructure management philosophies within in the vendor community you should know about…  And you need to know how they’ll impact control data center infrastructures, cloud infrastructures, and IT operations. As I mentioned in an earlier blog about Band-Aids vs Cures, the [...] Read More

Egenera’s Big Three Differentiators

Today, as in nearly every day, I had a conversation with someone who suddenly latches-on to the concept of Converged Infrastructure – it’s elegant, simple, efficient, effective. They get excited about its versatility, and how virtualization-of-the-infrastructure is the analogous next step to virtualization-of-the-OS. Then… they inevitably ask “But what are your differentiators?”.  And that’s the [...] Read More

Demand Platform-Independent Converged Infrastructure

Compared to 12 months ago, the term “converged infrastructure” is now practically a commonplace term. All major vendors — Cisco, HP, IBM — are offering their corporate version, their interpretation, their pre-configured systems.  And the press & analysts are eating-up the marketing for all of these proprietary solutions. Meanwhile, in the adjacent cloud computing space, [...] Read More