Enterasys and Egenera Offer Converged Infrastructure to Unify Data Center

ANDOVER, Mass., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company, together with Egenera, today announced the Intelligent Data Center – a management and automation solution that unifies converged networking, computing and virtualization to provide visibility and control to the entire data center. By leveraging the OneFabric architecture from Enterasys and Egenera's PAN Manager, the Intelligent Data Center offers a best-of-breed solution that ensures key business applications meet the availability, capacity, response time, security and compliance requirements to  ensure business objectives are met. 

Coupled with the Fusion SDN Connect Integration Service from Enterasys, the Intelligent Data Center provides policy-based management and provisioning of network services for any user, device and application. The solution also provides IT granular visibility and control into all devices, users and applications on the network. As an open solution, the Intelligent Data Center helps IT organizations avoid vendor lock-in and offers a simplified, cost-effective data center management solution.

"The massive growth in the numbers of devices, users, applications, and virtual machines in data centers is putting significant pressure on IT departments to accelerate and optimize performance and availability. The traditional and siloed approach prevalent in many IT organizations simply can't scale effectively and economically enough to keep up with these changes," said  Chris Crowell, president and CEO of Enterasys Networks. "The Intelligent Data Center from Enterasys and Egenera provides an economical solution for creating a logical data center that enables quicker provisioning, monitoring and management. This allows IT to apply more time, energy and budget to innovating and moving the business forward."   

Key Benefits of the Intelligent Data Center include:

• Open solution with no vendor lock-in –Supports any blade server, storage, hypervisor and application
• Granular visibility and control – Ensures security and quality of service from access to core
• Policy based management – Allows IT to meet the SLAs they set with their business
• Cost effective – Reduces TCO by up to 50 percent

Resources

• Enterasys OneFabric webpage
• Enterasys on Twitter
• Enterasys Social media newsroom

About Enterasys Networks and Siemens Enterprise Communications

Siemens Enterprise Communications is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based unified communicationsand business applications for a seamless collaboration experience. This award-winning "Open Communications" approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company's OpenPath® commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores Group and Siemens AG, Siemens Enterprise Communications includes Cycos and Enterasys Networks. For more information about Siemens Enterprise Communications or Enterasys please visit www.siemens-enterprise.com or www.enterasys.com.

About Egenera

Converge. Unify. Simplify. That's how Egenera brings confidence to computing. The company's production-proven converged infrastructure data center solutions, powerful Egenera® PAN Manager® Software and professional services are trusted globally to deliver proven value through agility, reliability and availability. Egenera solutions and services guarantee wire-once, always-on, physical and virtual management across the data center with measurable savings. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., Egenera has thousands of production installations globally, including premier enterprise data centers, service providers and government agencies. For more information on the company, please visit www.egenera.com. Follow Egenera on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

SOURCE Enterasys Networks