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Egenera’s PAN Manager Now Certified for IBM BladeCenter® Platform

Industry-leading converged infrastructure solution is now accessible on all leading blade platforms

BOXBOROUGH, MA – May 10, 2012 – Egenera®, a pioneer in converged infrastructure management and automation software, today announced that its flagship software product, PAN Manager®, is certified with IBM’s BladeCenter® platform. This is a significant announcement for Egenera, as it gives PAN Manager the remarkable distinction of being the only infrastructure automation solution available for use on every major blade server platform.

Egenera’s announcement further demonstrates the company’s commitment to providing enterprises with hardware openness and choice when deploying their infrastructure management, automation and unified computing solutions. With the introduction of PAN Manager on the IBM BladeCenter® platform, customers will be able to use any of the leading blade server platforms to, via a converged infrastructure, simplify infrastructure management and improve service levels to the business.

PAN Manager delivers a complete management solution that ensures applications have the capacity, availability and response time to meet service level requirements, enabling customers to move applications confidently into an enterprise cloud.

“As Egenera realigned to focus on software, we have had the business objective of becoming certified for all leading blade servers, so we are delighted to have achieved this landmark. For the customer, it’s about enabling choice,” said Pete Manca, CEO of Egenera. “As businesses are dealing with a wider range of physical and virtual technologies, PAN Manager Software for IBM BladeCenter® allows the customer flexibility to deploy and manage those technologies and deliver services across any blade infrastructure.”
For customers, PAN Manager software provides physical and virtual management, automated discovery, rapid provisioning, scalability, and offers 24/7 availability, security, multi-tenancy and fast and consistent disaster recovery capabilities while ensuring hardware independence.

If you would like more information about Egenera PAN Manager Software for IBM BladeCenter, please let us know by filling out the contact form to the right. A member of the Egenera Team will be in touch.