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Posted in Industry News on Oct 29th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Egenera News on Sep 7th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Blade Servers on Feb 8th, 2007
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 of some [...]