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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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The Merge of Physical and Virtual

We all knew it had to happen at some point. You had the old guard running servers on physical platforms, sprawling through the data center, using more and more power generating more heat. Then came virtualization via the hypervisor, condensing the many physical servers into a few. This, of course, could not take care of [...] Read More

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Five 9′s of pooled resources with standard hardware!

Today Egenera & Dell announced the start of shipping their Dell / PAN system. I believe this marks a new strategic direction for the company, and hopefully, a new set of infrastructure management options for mission-critical users of any kind of physical/virtual environment. Egenera has been best known for combining its high-performance BladeFrame hardware with [...] Read More

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