Company:Egenera
| Industry | cloud software automation |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Fort Technologies |
| Founded | March 2000 |
| Founder | Vern Brownell |
| Headquarters | Boxborough, Massachusetts |
Area served | United States United Kingdom Japan Hong Kong |
| Products | Egenera BladeFrame PAN Manager Egenera Cloud Suite |
Number of employees | 110 |
| Website | www |
Egenera, Inc. is a multinational cloud manager and data center infrastructure automation company with corporate headquarters in Boxborough, Massachusetts in the United States . 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[1] 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 , Japan and Hong Kong.[2]
History
Egenera was founded by Vern Brownell in March 2000.[3]
The company launched its first product, the Egenera BladeFrame, in October, 2001.[4]
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.[5]
In December 2012, Egenera acquired Fort Technologies [6] who was a developer of cloud management software.
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Egenera uses illegal spam as a means of business development.
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OEM partners
As of 2013, Egenera has OEM agreements with the following vendors:
See also
- Cloud computing
- Storage virtualization
- Network virtualization
- x86 virtualization
- Blade Server
- Fabric computing
- Unified computing
References
- ↑ "10 Start-ups to watch". Network World. April 29, 2002. Archived from the original on 2008-09-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20080927211106/http://www.networkworld.com/nw200/2002/egenera.html. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
- ↑ Brodkin, Jon (2008-11-10). "Egenera lays off 87 workers, refocuses on software" (in en). https://www.networkworld.com/article/2269463/egenera-lays-off-87-workers--refocuses-on-software.html.
- ↑ "Q&A: Vern Brownell, founder and CTO of Egenera". SearchDataCenter.com. April 28, 2005. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1083942,00.html. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
- ↑ "EGENERA COMPANY HISTORY TIMELINE". 27 August 2020. https://www.zippia.com/egenera-careers-1405641/history/.
- ↑ "Egenera to Carve Out Space in Software Market". ServerWatch. November 1, 2007. http://www.serverwatch.com/news/print.php/3708681. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
- ↑ "Egenera Acquires Fort Technology". zdnet. December 5, 2012. http://www.zdnet.com/egenera-acquires-fort-technologies-cloud-management-7000008358/.
- ↑ "Dell and Egenera Partnering to Simplify Data Center Management". Dell. March 25, 2008. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/2008/2008_03_25_rr_002?c=us&l=en&s=corp. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
- ↑ "Egenera bags new OEM agreement with Fujitsu". The Register. March 28, 2012. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/28/egenera_fujitsu_bx900_pan_manager/. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
- ↑ "Egenera and HP Collaborate on PAN Manager Software for HP". HP. April 7, 2011. http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Converged-Infrastructure/Egenera-amp-HP-Collaborate-on-PAN-Manager-Software-for-HP/ba-p/90337?jumpid=reg_r1002_usen. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
- ↑ "Egenera Management Software Certified for IBM BladeCenter". Talkin Cloud. May 11, 2012. http://talkincloud.com/egenera-management-software-certified-for-ibm-bladecenter. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
- ↑ "NEC, Egenera tag team on cloudy infrastructure freakage". The Register. September 6, 2012. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/06/nec_egenera_pan_manager_servers/n. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
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