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On Tuesday, Dell and Egenera will be announcing a strategic OEM agreement where Egenera’s PAN Manager will be available on Dell PowerEdge servers. PAN Manager is a unique management tool that is at the heart of Egenera’s enterprise BladeFrame servers, providing the ability to virtualize and manage not only virtual server environments, but also storage and I/O. Essentially, PAN Manager allows IT managers to create an entire virtual datacenter where nothing is tied to physical hardware. Compute, storage, and network resources can be dynamically allocated when needed and where needed. PAN Manager includes application clustering that allows virtual servers to failover automatically, and also full server failover to remote locations for disaster tolerance. All of these capabilities are tied together with a strong Egenera management framework that implements the high level of security demanded by many of Egenera’s financial services and government customers.

Very cool news, bringing more choice to the end user is always a good thing. Bringing Pan Manager to the Dell platform brings new opportunities and exposure to Egenera, as well as choice and functionality features for Dell customers – very cool. I’ll need to check this out.

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