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Guest Posting by Ken Henault, Senior Infrastructure Architect, HP

I had the privilege of working on the joint HP & Egenera team that developed the announcement materials. As the technical guy in a team it was a good learning experience. In bringing the two companies together I found things we share in common, and things that differentiate us. Read More

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Announcement – HP Partners with Egenera

After almost a year of collaboration, we are pleased to announce today that Egenera has formed a partnership with HP. The result of our joint work is Egenera’s PAN Manager for HP BladeSystem software. Read More

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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

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Truth in Analysis: Is UCS Really a Money Saver?

Cisco recently posted a case study on deploying their UCS at a customer site, Slumberland. Once again, I’d like to dissect the study and cut through the marketing Spin and FUD. I’ll approach this analysis the same way I did back in April and then June ’09 when Cisco also tried to Snow the market [...] Read More

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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

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Egenera announces Dell PAN System 3.0 & PAN Manager 6.0

Egenera announced a new version of Dell PAN System and PAN Manager Software today that greatly expands the scalability of PAN Manager on a number of fronts. PAN Manager can now manage more blades on a single converged fabric , more VMs, and more servers. It also increases the IO throughput, utilizing 10Gbps Ethernet uplinks, [...] Read More

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