Egenera

American cloud manager company

Egenera, Inc.Industry| cloud software
automation

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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.com

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

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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.

## OEM partners

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As of 2013, Egenera has OEM agreements with the following vendors:

* Dell[7]
* Fujitsu [8]
* Hewlett Packard[9]
* IBM[10]
* NEC[11]

## See also

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* Cloud computing
* Storage virtualization
* Network virtualization
* x86 virtualization
* Blade Server
* Fabric computing
* Unified computing

## References

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1. ^ "10 Start-ups to watch". Network World. April 29, 2002. Archived from the original on 2008-09-27. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
2. ^ Brodkin, Jon (2008-11-10). "Egenera lays off 87 workers, refocuses on software". Network World. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
3. ^ "Q&A: Vern Brownell, founder and CTO of Egenera". SearchDataCenter.com. April 28, 2005. Archived from the original on 2008-09-27. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
4. ^ "EGENERA COMPANY HISTORY TIMELINE". 27 August 2020.
5. ^ "Egenera to Carve Out Space in Software Market". ServerWatch. November 1, 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
6. ^ "Egenera Acquires Fort Technology". zdnet. December 5, 2012. Archived from the original on January 4, 2013.
7. ^ "Dell and Egenera Partnering to Simplify Data Center Management". Dell. March 25, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
8. ^ "Egenera bags new OEM agreement with Fujitsu". The Register. March 28, 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
9. ^ "Egenera and HP Collaborate on PAN Manager Software for HP". HP. April 7, 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
10. ^ "Egenera Management Software Certified for IBM BladeCenter". Talkin Cloud. May 11, 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
11. ^ "NEC, Egenera tag team on cloudy infrastructure freakage". The Register. September 6, 2012. Retrieved 2013-05-06.[permanent dead link‍]