The AMD - Egenera Alliance

Delivering Utility Computing Today

The AMD alliance helps enhance Egenera's focus on simplifying enterprise datacenters and reducing operational complexity. The BladeFrame's unique Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture supports multiple Processing Blade configurations and operating systems simultaneously, enabling customers to automatically align computing resources to application requirements and scale performance dynamically. Working with AMD further validates Egenera's commitment to customer choice.

Simplify your datacenter for lower TCO and unprecedented business agility

Egenera believes you can't simplify the datacenter by adding more layers of technology. Instead, what's needed is a new computing architecture in a fully integrated solution, a system purpose-built to minimize complexity and optimize responsiveness through flexible, secure resource sharing. As a technology leader in utility computing, Egenera enables datacenters to run any application, on any resource, at any time, automatically. Egenera works with global companies in a wide range of industries that are gaining powerful business advantages today by simplifying their datacenters.

The unique PAN architecture of the Egenera BladeFrame system disaggregates processing, storage and network assets into pools that come together as needed to support a service, then disband. Virtualization software automatically repurposes and reallocates resources based on business priorities and service-level agreements.

Moreover, by combining the scalability of blade servers and the price/performance of AMD processors with mainframe-class functionality, the BladeFrame enables datacenters to leverage Linux, Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris for mission-critical applications. The BladeFrame delivers commodity price/performance with the enterprise-class functionality needed to run a business. Finally, a solution that enables IT to deliver what the business has always wanted: adaptable, high-quality services at lower cost.

Key BladeFrame benefits versus legacy servers include:

• High availability for all applications at virtually no cost
• On-the-fly IT response to changing business requirements
• Up to 50% lower costs and more efficient utilization of IT resources

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