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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]
Advantages Of Running Oracle 9i Database With Real Application Clusters On The Egenera BladeFrame
White Papers This paper explores how the Egenera BladeFrame with its PAN architecture provides unique advantages for this exciting new Oracle application. Over the past decade, the use of clustering has grown in response to the need for high performance...
[September 15, 2003, 17:01]
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]
Virtualization For Competitive Advantage
White Papers Albridge Solutions has migrated from proprietary RISC/UNIX servers to the Egenera BladeFrame system running Linux on x86 processors. Today, with the Egenera BladeFrame, Albridge can run any application on any blade at any time based on demand...
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Taking Control Of The Data Center
White Papers This document offers insight into the customer pain points driving development of the Processing Area Network and summarizes Egenera's perspective on current processing alternatives. Commentary on solutions ranging from 1U servers to legacy...
[September 15, 2003, 17:01]
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...
[September 14, 2006, 0:00]
Server Consolidation Through Utility Computing
White Papers As a supplier of enterprise-class servers, Egenera has participated in many consolidation projects with both customers and prospects. Server consolidation is a hot topic among CIOs. This paper summarizes what they have learned about consolidation...
[May 20, 2004, 1:03]
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]
