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Egenera racks up another $30m
News Egenera, a specialist in high-end blade servers, has raised $30m (£16.25m) in a fourth round of funding, the company expects to announce on Monday. Technology Crossover Ventures led the round, in which Egenera "significantly" increased its total...
[January 12, 2004, 11:00]
Liquid cooling returns in Egenera blades
News Blade server pioneer Egenera plans to announce on Tuesday its third-generation product, the BladeFrame EX, along with a partnership to keep the systems cool. The BladeFrame EX, like its predecessors, is a rack with as many as 24 individual blade...
[January 24, 2006, 8:25]
Liquid cooling returns in Egenera blades
Talkback I remember the fun 80s and 90s when Computer Engineers who had only just got rid of the common "mechanic" tag, had to start checking the coolant level on the mainframe processors. And did we take the mick.
[January 24, 2006, 12:15]
Novell plans LinuxWorld announcements
News New partnerships with server makers Dell and Egenera will be among the displays of Novell's newly bought Linux status at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, which begins on Wednesday. And start-up Egenera, which began its Linux server business...
[January 19, 2004, 10:35]
Linux server maker's coffers swell
News Egenera, a maker of high-end specialised Linux servers, has received $44m (£30) from earlier investors in a third round of funding. Taking a cue from the go-go Internet bubble years, Egenera will use the funding for faster global expansion, said...
[June 28, 2002, 9:38]
Server startup banking on novel design
News Along with Kodiak Venture Partners, Spectrum Equity Investors and Zolot's YankeeTek Ventures, they've poured $20m into Egenera. Egenera, a 50-person company has begun describing a sophisticated server design it hopes will appeal first to financial...
[May 3, 2001, 8:46]
Blade servers: The fine print matters
Talkback Why no mention of egenera? If you had really done your homework you would have been able to describe the egenera Bladeframe platform as the truly different "blade solution" - the only one that brings utility computing and datacenter virtualization...
[June 27, 2004, 13:14]
Case Study: Government Portal - Up and Running in 23 Days
White Papers The Egenera BladeFrame system was up and running in just 23 days with quantifiable reductions in both capital and management costs compared to a legacy UNIX environment. Established to help prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, this...
[December 14, 2005, 23:00]
Top Law Firm Relies on Storage From Network Appliance and 3PAR
White Papers At the same time, they selected Egenera server blades with VMware to create a complete utility computing server-and-storage environment. One the top law firms in the United States represents clients in high-stakes litigation, complex financing and...
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
FreshDirect Improves Technology Infrastructure Scalability and Lowers Total Cost of Ownership
White Papers FreshDirect replaced legacy systems with Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters running on Egenera BladeFrame servers to support mission-critical applications including customer relationship management, delivery administration, store...
[November 9, 2009, 3:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fortunately, I recover the use of my higher functions in time for a meeting today with the affable founder of Egenera, Vern Brownell. Egenera make a blade system called BladeFrame -- no, I hadn’t heard of it either -- which relegates all the IO and...
[June 10, 2005, 18:55]
Turbolinux drops the 'Linux'
News Hewlett-Packard and Egenera, a start-up specialising in Linux blade servers, both resell PowerCockpit. Turbolinux has sold its Linux business to Japan's Software Research Associates and in the process has completed its transformation into a...
[August 21, 2002, 8:18]
history in circles
Talkback This can be seen not only in the softer virtualisation techniques (such as with VMware, as discussed here) but also - and more revolutionarily - in the ability to virtualise environments at a hardware level (such as with Egenera, Fabric7, Panta...
[March 4, 2007, 15:00]
'Hyper-threading' boosts Intel chips
News The Xeon chips will be used in several new high-end Intel servers, including Egenera's BladeFrame, IBM's 16-processor Summit systems and Unisys' 32-processor ES7000 models. Intel's "hyper-threading" technology for boosting chip performance will...
[February 7, 2002, 8:41]
Banks 'should give back to open source community'
News Banks are generally reluctant to collaborate with other members of the financial community as they are worried about giving advantages to competitors, Ike Garrido, the director of blade server vendor Egenera, said during the panel discussion.
[April 26, 2006, 9:15]
AMD pulls in more firms to Intel battle
News Three new names were also added to the list: Appro International, MPC Computers and Egenera, Silverman said, but gave no specific reason for their addition to the list. AMD said on Thursday that it served more than 15 companies with subpoenas this...
[October 7, 2005, 8:50]
IBM aims Linux at financial companies
News One company that has bought into Linux is Credit Suisse First Boston, which has installed high-end Intel servers from start-up Egenera. IBM on Thursday will announce the opening of a technology center geared to lure financial services companies to...
[June 20, 2002, 9:07]
IDC finds optimism in 2004's crystal ball
News Smaller manufacturers such as Egenera may also hit the big time, IDC predicted. Tech spending will increase, IBM will indemnify customers in the SCO suit, and information technology services provided to US customers through offshore labour will...
[December 5, 2003, 8:25]
IBM sharpens blade plans for 2003
News While start-up Egenera pioneered four-processor blades for certain niche markets, HP will be the first mainstream server maker to release four-processor systems. IBM has sold 5,000 blade servers since launching its BladeCenter product less than...
[February 13, 2003, 10:22]
IBM spinoff takes new server approach
News Not yet clear are the prospects for Egenera, which hopes to sell a specialised Linux server costing $250,000 and up. OmniCluster Technologies has begun selling servers that plug into existing servers' PCI slots -- the same type of connection...
[October 1, 2001, 14:15]
