Egenera, Inc. is a multinational cloud manager and data center infrastructure automation company with corporate headquarters in
Boxborough, Massachusetts
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Geography
According to the United State ...
in the
United States
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. It is a privately held company with approximately 110 employees. Founded in March 2000, the company was named by Network World as one of the top 10 startups to watch in 2002 and was a winner in the annual "Red Herring 100 North America" award given by Red Herring magazine in 2006.
Egenera maintains overseas headquarters in the
United Kingdom
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,
Japan
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and
Hong Kong
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.
History
Egenera was founded by Vern Brownell in March 2000.
The company launched its first product, the Egenera BladeFrame, in October, 2001.
In October 2006, Egenera announced its plan to create a separate line of business in order to make its virtualization management software, called PAN Manager, available under OEM agreement to other server vendors.
In December 2012, Egenera acquired Fort Technologies who was a developer of cloud management software.
OEM partners
As of 2013, Egenera has OEM agreements with the following vendors:
* Dell
* Fujitsu
* Hewlett Packard
* IBM
* NEC
See also
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Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...
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Storage virtualization
In computer science, storage virtualization is "the process of presenting a logical view of the physical storage resources to" a host computer system, "treating all storage media (hard disk, optical disk, tape, etc.) in the enterprise as a singl ...
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Network virtualization
In computing, network virtualization is the process of combining hardware and software network resources and network functionality into a single, software-based administrative entity, a virtual network. Network virtualization involves platform vi ...
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x86 virtualization
x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU.
In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved by complex software techniques, necessary to compensate for the processor's lack of hardware-as ...
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Blade Server
A blade server is a stripped-down server computer with a modular design optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy. Blade servers have many components removed to save space, minimize power consumption and other considerations, whil ...
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Fabric computing
Fabric computing or unified computing involves constructing a computing fabric consisting of interconnected nodes that look like a ''weave'' or a ''fabric'' when seen collectively from a distance.
Usually the phrase refers to a consolidated high- ...
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Unified computing
Fabric computing or unified computing involves constructing a computing fabric consisting of interconnected nodes that look like a ''weave'' or a ''fabric'' when seen collectively from a distance.
Usually the phrase refers to a consolidated high- ...
References
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Software companies based in Massachusetts
Virtualization software
Software companies established in 2000
Software companies of the United States
Remote companies