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DRaaS — Disaster Recovery as a Service

Everyone wants to provide a service.  We are all too familiar with Software as a Service (SaaS). But in the beginning there was IaaS (infrastructure as a service), platform as a service (PaaS) and, more recently, Desktop as a Service and Storage as a Service. And now, in the ever-expanding world of “IT as a [...] Read More

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Clouds Keep Crashing

The Cloud Keeps Crashing.  Will the Sky Fall Next? When reporting on some recent outages of cloud services from Google and Microsoft, Kevin McCaney at GCN recently asked the question:  “is this the new normal”? It’s an interesting question to pose, but let’s take it a step further:  ”Are outages of key IT services becoming [...] Read More

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What Does Missoni Have to Do With Business Continuity?

  Missoni Madness   Missoni Madness. Missoni Mayhem. Missoni Mania. All have been cited by the media as reference to the phenomenon that caused Target’s web site to crash yesterday when consumers flooded the retailer online with hopes of scoring an item from the limited-edition, low-cost designer collection from Italian fashion designer Missoni. Target.com was [...] 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 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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Perched at the Inflection Point

Egenera – as well as much of the IT industry – is standing at an exciting point in its evolution. When Egenera was founded in 2000, nearly nobody had heard of virtual I/O or converged networking. In fact, blade servers were hardly part of the vernacular. But the company had a vision of simplified data [...] Read More

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