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PAN now available on Dell blade servers

Last year, Egenera announced support for Dell rack mount servers, extending the Processing Area Network architecture to off-the-shelf, industry standard servers. This combination joins the best-in-class Unified Fabric architecture (PAN) with the best-in-class industry standard hardware from Dell. The solution earned early praise from customers and has proven to be a terrific offering for the [...] Read More

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Building Blocks to a Reliable Dynamic Data Center

There are a number of challenges facing data center managers today – not just the sudden curtailment of investments due to the economic situation.  Data centers are in the midst of one of the largest transformations in decades.  The shift is driven by more than just new technology.  New business models that extend corporate systems [...] Read More

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The Disappearing Edge

Server Virtualization started simple enough – a way to consolidate multiple application servers to a single physical host. We might say it was learning to walk before running. At first we saw a move of test and development applications making the move to reduce costs and footprint. Over the last few years however we’ve entered [...] Read More

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Criteria for Value: What do you ask yourself?

My colleague, Christine Crandell, did a great post on her initial thoughts on how the financial crisis will affect all of us – customers, vendors and individuals. And importantly, that the opportunity for impact starts with our attitudes. It got me thinking…about who really “wins” in times like these. Value is more important than ever [...] Read More

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Egenera at VMworld: Capacity-on-Demand in Action

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 [...] Read More

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View from VMworld: Mainstream Adoption Yields Mainstream Challenges

It almost felt like back to school for technology last week at VMworld – a lot of excitement and movement in the industry. Not to mention, more attendees, more vendors and more vision. I had a blast! Predictably, everyone I talked to has some deployment of virtualization in production.  Of course, they were familiar with [...] Read More

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