Egenera Unveils Four New Blades Based on Dual-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) Technology; Company Continues to Innovate, Meet Customer Demand for Latest Intel-Based Blades.MARLBORO Marlboro or Marlborough (märl`bərō), city (1990 pop. 31,813), Middlesex co., E Mass.; settled on the site of a Native American village 1657, inc. as a city 1890. , Mass. -- Egenera Inc., a leader in datacenter virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. architecture, today announced it will expand its line of Egenera(R) Processing Blade(TM) configurations with four new two-socket offerings incorporating the new Dual-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor 5100, formerly codenamed "Woodcrest" by Intel. The newest Egenera pBlade(TM) modules will deliver the highest performance Intel architecture for Two-Socket Dual-Core processors, utilizing a 1333MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. front side bus and 667MHz fully buffered memory Buffered memory is an older term for registered memory. However, some new large systems use "fully buffered memory". In normal registered/buffered memory only the control lines are buffered, in fully buffered memory the data lines are buffered as well. . The Dual-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor 5100 requires only 80W of power, delivering both energy efficiency and high performance, with as much as twice the performance of Single-Core Xeon processors and up to three times the power efficiency. The Egenera pBlade modules also support Intel Virtualization Technology See VT. (VT), which provides silicon-level support for CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. virtualization. With the new pBlades, Egenera customers will be able to more efficiently run "VT-enabled" virtualization software from leading vendors on pBlades based on Intel Xeon processors. The new Egenera pBlades will be populated with two Intel EM64T (Extended Memory 64 Technology) The first name of Intel's 64-bit x86 CPUs. In 2006, the name of the technology was changed to "Intel 64." See Intel 64. Xeon processors at speeds of either 2.33GHz or 3.0GHz. Memory amounts will vary from 4GB to 16GB to allow customers flexibility in their configurations. Operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. certified to run on these 1U pBlades include Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2003, Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 3 and 4, SuSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server 9, and Sun(R) Solaris(TM) 10. Within the Egenera BladeFrame(R) system, Processing Blade modules provide the ideal platform to run mission-critical applications. These diskless resources enable automated allocation, repurposing and failover since any server can assume the identity of any other server. Moreover, Egenera virtualization technology See VT. See also virtualization. transforms 80 percent of the I/O devices on a legacy server into software, delivering unparalleled flexibility and reliability. A single BladeFrame system can simultaneously run Processing Blades with various processor architectures and operating systems, enabling customers to automatically align computing resources to application requirements and scale performance dynamically. "Egenera Processing Blade configurations based on the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors will deliver the superior energy efficiency and performance benefits that enterprise customers need to power their mission-critical applications," said Susan Davis Susan A. Davis (born April 13, 1944), is an American politician who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing California's 53rd congressional district (map). , vice president, Egenera. "Our customers continue to embrace dual-core technology and we believe Intel's new processors offer significant enhancements around price, performance and efficiency. We are pleased to again be among the first to market with high-end Processing Blades based on Intel's new Dual-Core Xeon processors." "Intel and Egenera both work continuously to develop leading-edge solutions for enterprise customers," said Boyd Davis, general manager, Server Platforms Group Marketing, Intel. "Egenera Processing Blades featuring the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5100 will represent a culmination in that effort to enable more efficiency, responsiveness and dependability. These leading-edge server platforms bring about industry leadership in performance, new advancements in memory, low power processing, I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output and reliability." Availability Egenera Processing Blades based on the Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5100 will be commercially available later in Q3 of 2006. About Egenera Inc. Egenera is a global leader in delivering enterprise computing solutions that simplify datacenter operations and infrastructure. The Egenera BladeFrame system 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. For more information visit www.egenera.com, call 508-858-2600 or send email to info@egenera.com. Egenera, Egenera stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. logos, BladeFrame and Processing Blade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Egenera Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other product names, service marks and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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