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Egenera’s Big Three Differentiators

Today, as in nearly every day, I had a conversation with someone who suddenly latches-on to the concept of Converged Infrastructure – it’s elegant, simple, efficient, effective. They get excited about its versatility, and how virtualization-of-the-infrastructure is the analogous next step to virtualization-of-the-OS. Then… they inevitably ask “But what are your differentiators?”.  And that’s the [...] Read More

Demand Platform-Independent Converged Infrastructure

Compared to 12 months ago, the term “converged infrastructure” is now practically a commonplace term. All major vendors — Cisco, HP, IBM — are offering their corporate version, their interpretation, their pre-configured systems.  And the press & analysts are eating-up the marketing for all of these proprietary solutions. Meanwhile, in the adjacent cloud computing space, [...] Read More

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

Infrastructure Management Approaches: Band-Aids vs. Cures

This blog entry is about the need to simplify data centers, not to mask or automate the stuff that’s there already. And it’s about Converged Infrastructure: what it is and why you should know about it. And finally, it’s about why some of today’s infrastructure management products – which simply manipulate in-place complexity – are [...] Read More

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

First-Mover Advantage & Unified Computing

I had to chuckle a bit when I read a recent claim that Cisco’s UCS was the “first” unified computing system certified on Oracle 10g and 11g RAC.  That’s just plain false. So stop the presses: To set the record straight, it was actually Egenera (using PAN Manager software) that was first… announcing 9i support [...] Read More