Egenera Featured at Intel Developer Forum; Intel Highlights Egenera BladeFrame in Modular Computing.

Business/Technology Editors

Intel Developer Forum 2002

MARLBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2002

Egenera Inc., the leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, is being featured at this week's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) taking place in San Jose, Calif.

Intel(R) Corporation is spotlighting the Egenera(TM) BladeFrame(TM) as part of a discussion on modular computing. Mike Fister, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Intel Enterprise Platforms Group, highlighted the topic today in a major keynote at IDF.

Fister explained that modular computing is a datacenter trend that is driving more agile corporate IT infrastructures, consolidation (smaller systems, less cabling, lower power) within those infrastructures, and dynamic and transparent deployment of compute, I/O, storage and standard-based software.

Earlier this week, Abhi Talwalkar, vice president of Intel Enterprise Platforms Group, demonstrated a BladeFrame system with Dave McAllister, director of strategic technologies for Egenera, during a conference session titled "Intel's Vision and Strategy for Modular Computing." Intel asked Egenera to participate based on the BladeFrame's real-time scalability, self-managing and self-healing characteristics, ability to create virtualized resource pools, and inherent reliability and redundancy.

"The Egenera BladeFrame embodies the characteristics of a leading modular computing design--it's flexible, scalable and self-healing and priced competitively. Customers will value Egenera's platform capabilities," said Talwalkar.

"From its inception, the BladeFrame was developed to provide the next generation of enterprise computing infrastructure to enterprise-class datacenters," noted Vern Brownell, founder and chief technology officer, Egenera. "Our Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture is characterized by resource virtualization and disaggregation, dynamic repurposing, built-in high availability, automated management and industry standards. Incorporating the industry-leading price/performance of Intel processors in the Egenera platform helps us deliver unprecedented cost savings and business agility to customers. We are very gratified that Intel has acknowledged the BladeFrame's unique architecture and value proposition by inviting us to participate at IDF."

The Intel Developer Forum is the technology industry's premier event for hardware and software developers. Held worldwide throughout the year, IDF brings together key industry players to discuss cutting-edge technology and products for PCs, servers, communications equipment, and handheld clients. For more information on IDF and Intel technology, visit http://developer.intel.com.

The Egenera BladeFrame, with its Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture, assembles purpose-built hardware and virtualization software in a fully integrated computing platform that enables enterprise-class datacenters to quantifiably achieve savings, optimize application availability and drive market agility. Using the Red Hat(R) Linux(R) operating system, the BladeFrame creates a pool of up to 96 server-class Intel processors on 24 hot-pluggable Egenera Processing Blade(TM) modules interconnected via a very high-speed, internal network and deployed through Egenera PAN Manager(TM) software. With no local disk, and therefore no state, Processing Blades are anonymous and interchangeable--a unique characteristic that enables datacenters to dynamically increase, decrease and reallocate processing capacity to support new applications or accommodate variable demand on existing applications without purchasing, installing or managing incremental equipment. The BladeFrame combines the reliability and manageability of a mainframe, the scalability of distributed computing and the price/performance of commodity components for mission-critical applications.

About Egenera Inc.

Egenera has delivered tomorrow's datacenter today by integrating hardware, software, networking and services into simple, yet powerful machines. The Company's BladeFrame system helps large enterprises achieve savings, optimize application availability and drive business agility. Privately held, Egenera has assembled a senior management team and engineering staff with an average 20-plus years' experience working with the industry's foremost providers and users of enterprise-class hardware and software systems. This collective technical, customer and business experience uniquely positions the Company to reinvent datacenter computing. Relationships with EMC, Intel, Oracle, Red Hat and Turbolinux, among others, further strengthen the Egenera value proposition. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, London, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington D.C. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to [e-mail] or call 508-858-2600.

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