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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Dell-Expands-Use-of-Egenera-PAN-Data-Center-Tool-329392/

Dell is bundling the Egenera PAN System software with its PowerEdge M710 blade server and M1000e chassis, two products that were rolled out in conjunction with the launch of Intel’s Xeon 5500 series chips code-named Nehalem. The Egenera software lets administrators create a pool of computing, networking and storage resources within the data center that can be dynamically provisioned depending on demand. The PAN System gives Dell a weapon in its competition with rivals such as Cisco and HP to offer more complete solutions in increasingly virtualized data centers.

Dell is expanding the use of Egenera’s infrastructure software to its new blade server and chassis announced March 30 in conjunction with Intel’s launch of the “Nehalem EP” processor family.

Dell and Egenera in September 2008 announced a deal in which Dell would bundle Egenera’s PAN System software in some of its PowerEdge servers.

In December, Dell said it was using the Egenera technology in its PowerEdge 1950 rack server, and in February expanded the use of what it called the Dell PAN System into the PowerEdge M610 blade server.

Bringing the option of Egenera’s PAN software for system management brings further opportunities for system management of the Dell servers and creates more opportunities for revenue for Egenera. Anything we can do to aid systems management, of moving the infrastructure to the ‘next generation data center’ has to be a good thing, I’m off to check it out.

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