Covering Server Infrastructure Virtualization & Management
Posted in Egenera News on Nov 12th, 2008
Change can be painful, but if we ignore the need for change the end result is often worse. Egenera is evolving and it was necessary to re-align our business model and company infrastructure, resulting in the decision to lay off about 28% of our global workforce. It would be easy to blame it all on [...]
Posted in Egenera News, Industry News, Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2008
My earlier post focused on my general observations about VMworld and the hot topics in play. Needless to say from inside and around the Egenera booth, I was pretty overwhelmed by what a great reception our technology and our vision garnered. Incidentally, this was our first year with a standalone booth at VMworld and it [...]
Posted in Egenera News on Jun 2nd, 2008
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Posted in Egenera News on Sep 7th, 2007
Egenera just announced support for Intel’s new 4-socket, Quad-Core XEON processors, offering versions with 16, 32, 64, and 96 Gigabytes of memory. All this in the same 1U format as our other blades, fitting in to the same chassis that we first delivered in the fall of 2001. Same chassis, same infrastructure, same blade form [...]
Posted in Egenera News, IO Virtualization on Jun 6th, 2007
If you get a chance, read Jim Burton’s blog (IDEAS International) on our new vBlade software. This is a guy who gets it. As Jim rightly points out, it’s about breaking the binds between servers and IO infrastructure, something we have been doing here since our inception. Few analysts, and even fewer vendors, seem to [...]
Posted in Egenera News, Industry News on May 21st, 2007
Earlier this year I blogged some predictions and called 2007 the year for Virtualization. Not a very aggressive prediction given what is going on in the industry, but it doesn’t make it any less accurate. But in order to get to this point, the seeds had to be sown many years ago.
In early 2000, Egenera [...]
Posted in Egenera News on Apr 30th, 2007
I’ve been blogging for some time now about the benefits of hypervisors and also the risk of adding complexity when choosing virtual machines as a strategy for the data center. Today Egenera announced a new product named vBlades that will provide all of the benefits that hypervisors provide while reducing the risk and complexity that [...]