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Release: Egenera PAN Manager Software on HP BladeSystem

April 7, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Egenera today announced the general availability of Egenera PAN Manager Software on HP BladeSystem c-class server blades based on Intel processor technology.

Capitalizing on the advantages of the HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric module, the latest release of PAN Manager Software will offer a ten-fold increase in throughput for PAN Manager Software environments.

PAN Manager now supports HP, Fujitsu and Dell blade server platforms, as well as Egenera’s own BladeFrame offering.

Egenera PAN Manager Software for HP BladeSystem with the Virtual Connect FlexFabric module is immediately available for purchase.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Egenera PAN Manager, Egenera PAN Manager software, HP, HP BladeSystem, HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric, PAN Manager, PAN Manager software

Egenera Introduces PAN Manager 5.2

January 20, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Egenera today announced its next generation software solution for unifying virtual and physical infrastructure management, PAN Manager 5.2.

New features including open APIs enable customers and third parties to integrate PAN Manager commands and functions into their own software suites. By logically abstracting and representing all types of computing assets, both physical and virtual, PAN Manager simplifies the data center environment while ensuring high availability and full disaster recovery.

PAN Manager’s reliable virtualized architecture is based on industry standards and supports popular hypervisors, SANs and server platforms. PAN Manager minimizes data center complexity, and reduces operational and capital expenditures by up to 70 percent.

The major innovations in the latest release of PAN Manager software focus on simplifying manageability through an increasingly granular level of management for both virtual and physical resources. The many major new and enhanced features in PAN Manager software, release 5.2 include:

  • Open APIs enabling customers or third parties to integrate PAN Manager commands and functions into their own software suites;
  • Linux 2.6 kernel compatibility to run PAN Controllers for enhanced performance;
  • Embedded Citrix 4.1 technology enabling Live Migration, support for Red Hat 64-bit operating systems  and  dynamic memory allocation;
  • Support for vLAN technology enabling superior flexibility in designing computing environments within the processing area network – the PAN; and
  • Support for WinPE 2.1 enabling customers to utilize industry standard tools to manage their Microsoft operating system deployments and provisioning.

PAN Manager software by Egenera, release 5.2, is available immediately.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Egenera, Egenera PAN Manager, Egenera PAN Manager 5.2, Egenera PAN Manager software, PAN Manager, PAN Manager 5.2, PAN Manager software, virtualisation, virtualization

Virtualization Journal Interview With Christine Crandell, Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer Egenera

December 29, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Jeremy Geelan over at Virtualization Journal penned an interview held with Christine Crandell, Executive VP and Chief Marketing Officer for Egenera, offering a fairly interesting read. Previous coverage about Egenera can be found here.

Excerpt:

Virtualization Journal: How does Egenera see the future of the data center? How much of a role will the cloud play in Enterprise IT, for example?

Christine: I see data centers rapidly evolving into reliable dynamic data centers. So what do we mean? At Egenera, we’ve adopted the Burton Group’s definition, which says “The dynamic data center is born from the orchestration of virtualized IT systems and resources.”

A reliable dynamic data center is the next step after virtualization – that’s because virtualization is the essential foundation. Without it, companies cannot achieve the agility, flexibility, and reliability needed to evolve into a reliable dynamic data center. Let’s look at what the data center of the future will be – it won’t be homogeneous – rather it will be highly heterogeneous with components like computing, I/O, and storage stitched together through intelligent fabrics. A holistic infrastructure management system will manage all assets – physical and virtual – including those internally owned and externally service-provided (cloud), all through a centralized console.

Server virtualization is mainstream with almost 70% of companies use x86 virtualization and many are looking at their RISC and mainframe systems for additional opportunities. The benefits of virtualization go well beyond consolidation. Cost reduction is often the starting point, but the benefits really extend well beyond TCO. Virtualization can help you speed development cycles and new resources faster. Companies that have been using server virtualization for 2+ years (that’s about 50% of companies) have realized that virtualization – in its many forms – positively impacts quality of service and their ability to meet SLAs. Automated provisioning, high availability, and disaster recovery are easier and cheaper to implement.

The next evolutionary stage is to address application workload consolidation as a critical enabler of speed, efficiency, and optimization. They enable dynamic allocation and balancing of computing resources based on business policy. Other critical components include unified fabrics, standardized management interfaces, an orchestration engine, and IT governance.

Filed Under: Interviews, People Tagged With: Christine Crandell, Egenera, Egenera PAN Manager, interview, PAN Manager, virtualisation, virtualization

Egenera Ships PAN vmBuilder Software 2.1

November 11, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Egenera today announced the general availability of PAN vmBuilder, version 2.1. PAN vmBuilder software seamlessly integrates Citrix XenServer virtual machine management technology, allowing administrators to fully manage virtual and physical server environments unencumbered by the complexities of individual management tools.

Integrated seamlessly into PAN Manager software by Egenera, PAN vmBuilder allows customers to easily allocate both a full or a portion of a server based on the needs of the application or service. This approach completely eliminates the complexity of managing virtual machines and physical servers with disparate tools — freeing up IT staff for other projects.

PAN vmBuilder software by Egenera is available immediately and is offered as an add-on to PAN Manager software by Egenera, which is available across multiple hardware platforms.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Egenera, Egenera BladeFrame, Egenera PAN Manager, Egenera PAN vmBuilder, Egenera PAN vmBuilder 2.1, Egenera PAN vmBuilder Software, Egenera PAN vmBuilder Software 2.1, PAN Manager, PAN vmBuilder, PAN vmBuilder 2.1, PAN vmBuilder Software, PAN vmBuilder Software 2.1, virtualisation, virtualization

Egenera To Offer A Technology Preview Of Its New Capacity-on-Demand Solution at VMworld 2008

August 28, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Egenera today announced an upcoming technology preview of its capacity-on-demand solution developed jointly with VMware. Recently, Egenera had already picked VMware’s virtualization technology to power its BladeFrame Systems.

Set to be unveiled for the first time on the show floor at VMworld, the new joint capacity-on-demand solution will provide VMware VirtualCenter users access to PAN Manager by Egenera processing resources directly through VMware VirtualCenter. With capacity-on-demand, customers benefit from the automatic deployment of ESX hosts onto “bare metal” in response to overutilization that can adversely affect virtual machine performance.

With Egenera’s capacity-on-demand solution, new ESX hosts are automatically registered to VirtualCenter as part of the resource pool, while underutilized ESX hosts can be automatically powered off to reduce energy consumption. In addition, VMware features such as Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) and High Availability (HA) will rebalance virtual machine workloads within the changed environment.

Egenera

[Source: VMblog]

Filed Under: News, Partnerships Tagged With: capacity-on-demand, Egenera, Egenera BladeFrame, Egenera BladeFrame System, Egenera PAN Manager, PAN Manager, preview, technology preview, virtualisation, virtualization, vmware, VMware Infrastructure 3, VMWorld, VMWorld 2008

Fujitsu Siemens Now Shipping PRIMERGY BladeFrame With VMware Infrastructure 3

May 26, 2008 by Robin Wauters 2 Comments

Fujitsu Siemens Computers recently announced it will be shipping PRIMERGY BladeFrame (powered by Egenera) combined with VMware Infrastructure 3.

Fujitsu Siemens

Here’s how the company explains the move:

“The virtualization boom has revolutionized data centers, accelerating the shift from fixed, unresponsive, locked-down server resources to dynamic data centers of the future, where server resources are allocated according to demand and are reconfigured on-the-fly to guarantee that they always provide the best-possible levels of availability.

Introducing the market leading data center software virtualization platform to the highly-versatile PRIMERGY BladeFrame line means that Fujitsu Siemens Computers and VMware are delivering the industry’s ultimate platform for data center virtualization, bar none.”

[Source: MySolutionInfo]

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