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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

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

Truth in Analysis: Is UCS Really a Money Saver?

Cisco recently posted a case study on deploying their UCS at a customer site, Slumberland. Once again, I’d like to dissect the study and cut through the marketing Spin and FUD. I’ll approach this analysis the same way I did back in April and then June ’09 when Cisco also tried to Snow the market [...] Read More

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

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

Analysis: Where vendors are placing their data center bets

Or, The tale of the universal remote vs. integrated audio There are 2 IT infrastructure management philosophies within in the vendor community you should know about…  And you need to know how they’ll impact control data center infrastructures, cloud infrastructures, and IT operations. As I mentioned in an earlier blog about Band-Aids vs Cures, the [...] Read More