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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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Momentum Continues at Egenera

Q2 is behind us now and it marked another exceptional quarter for Egenera. I’m so proud of the Egenera team and the hard work they’ve done to turn this company into a profitable leader in the Converged Infrastructure space. Q2 marked our 6th consecutive profitable quarter! Our software business continues to grow significantly. Compared to [...] Read More

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PAN Manager Comparison vs. Cisco: Boot-from-SAN Checklist

Egenera is frequently asked to compare our PAN Manager Software to Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS).   Conceptually the two products are similar in that they are based on the concept of stateless servers with virtual I/O and fully converged networking. But PAN Manager has been around for 10 years… so we’ve had a long time [...] Read More

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Open Always Wins

I read with great interest the recent blog written by Chuck Hollis of EMC. It was an excellent post about the difficulty and challenges of creating a Converged Infrastructure (CI) solution that is real, as opposed to “funding and PowerPoint”. In the blog, Chuck points out several things a vendor has to achieve in order [...] Read More

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Open, Converged Infrastructure!

You wouldn’t buy a VM that only worked on only one vendor’s server, would you? Then why buy converged infrastructure & unified computing systems that only support one platform? Today Egenera took another bold step in our converged infrastructure (unified computing) software strategy: We’ve announced that our PAN Manager Software will also be available on [...] Read More

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Combining Compatibility with Openness

…or, Having Your Data Center Cake and Eating It Too If unified computing and converged infrastructure are breakthrough IT management concepts, then I’m still mystified why more users don’t protest and ask for more universal, Open converged infrastructure platforms – in addition to the platform-specific ones hardware vendors offer. In response, Egenera is taking another [...] Read More

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