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Egenera enters the software market

Today Egenera announced we are entering the software market. We are taking the incredible power of our Processing Area Network technology and applying it to other vendor’s hardware. This is a big step for Egenera, though it’s more of a natural evolution. We are NOT getting out of the hardware business and will continue to [...] Read More

New Blades, Same Footprint

Egenera just announced support for Intel’s new 4-socket, Quad-Core XEON processors, offering versions with 16, 32, 64, and 96 Gigabytes of memory. All this in the same 1U format as our other blades, fitting in to the same chassis that we first delivered in the fall of 2001. Same chassis, same infrastructure, same blade form [...] Read More

Blade Myths

Industry analyst and frequent writer Barb Goldworm wrote an excellent two-part article this week on the myths surrounding blade servers. In the article, Barb deconstructs myths on power & cooling, pricing, virtualization and performance.  It’s an excellent read. I’d like to add one more myth to the mix: Blades aren’t appropriate for the enterprise… Because [...] Read More