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Egenera and AMD Forge Strategic Alliance
—Egenera to Deliver AMD Opteron™ Processor-based Blades—
Marlboro, Mass. -- February 7, 2005 --Egenera Inc., a global leader in utility computing, and AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a worldwide alliance. Driven by customer demand, Egenera will deliver both two-way and four-way AMD Opteron™ processor-based Processing Blade™ configurations for the Egenera® BladeFrame® system in the next 30 days. In addition, AMD has joined the Egenera Accelerate alliance program as a strategic Enterprise Technology Alliances member, and the companies plan to engage in joint sales and marketing initiatives.
“Our new strategic alliance with Egenera further builds on our success in the enterprise computing market. This is another illustration of the customer demand for innovative, reliable and power-efficient solutions that the AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture can deliver,” said Marty Seyer, corporate vice president and general manager of the Microprocessor Business Unit, Computation Products Group, AMD. “Together, with Egenera’s new line of AMD Opteron processor-based blades, we can help reduce power consumption and complexity in datacenters around the world and deliver real business value to customers.”
“Egenera’s focus on simplifying enterprise datacenters and reducing operational complexity is enhanced by our alliance with AMD,” explained Mike Thompson, chief operating officer, Egenera. “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 while expanding our addressable market. We are pleased to welcome them to our alliance community of industry leaders.”
AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture and HyperTransport™ technology deliver leading-edge 32-bit performance today and enable customers to transition to 64-bit computing at their own pace, without sacrificing their existing x86 technology investments.
Learn more about AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect Architecture here: www.amd.com/opteron.
For more information on the Egenera Accelerate Alliance program, see www.egenera.com/accel_enterprise.php.
EDITORS’ NOTE: In other news today, Egenera has announced Egenera BladeFrame 4.0. To view this press release, go to www.egenera.com/press_releases.php.
About Egenera Inc.
Egenera is a global leader in delivering computing solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera BladeFrame product family simplifies the datacenter with an innovative server architecture specifically designed to reduce complexity and enable IT to respond rapidly to business requirements. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust the Egenera BladeFrame system to run their most important business applications and achieve higher resource utilization, faster application time-to-market, and lower total cost of ownership. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide. More information is available at www.egenera.com.
Egenera, Egenera stylized logos, BladeFrame and Processing Blade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Egenera, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All other product names, service marks and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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