Egenera Inc. Expands Alliance Program

Roster of Industry Leaders Grows to Enhance BladeFrame Value Proposition

Marlboro, Mass. - June 9, 2003 - Egenera Inc., the leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, today welcomed four new members to the Egenera Alliance program, a strategic initiative designed to ensure that customers derive maximum value from an Egenera™ BladeFrame™ deployment. Specifically, Network Appliance Inc. has become an Enterprise Alliances member, GemStone Systems Inc. and Sybase Inc. have earned the Assured Solution Alliances designation, and netNumina Inc. has joined the Professional Services Alliance program.

“Egenera’s customer base is expanding rapidly, as enterprise-class datacenters in multiple industries acknowledge the BladeFrame’s ability to improve the reliability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of their operations,” noted Mariam Ganem, vice president of worldwide sales operations and channel support, Egenera. “To ensure that these world-class companies derive maximum value from their investments in our technology, we are committed to forging relationships with the best and brightest in the IT community, as evidenced by the program participants we are announcing today.”

Four new members have joined the Egenera Alliance program in the following categories:

Egenera Enterprise Alliances

The Egenera BladeFrame system and its Processing Area Network architecture enable enterprise datacenters to rapidly install, deploy and manage processing resources. To help customers extend this next-generation approach to other areas of their individual IT environments, such as storage area networking and enterprise management, Egenera works with the leading providers of enterprise datacenter systems and solutions.

Network Appliance (NetApp) is a world leader in unified storage solutions for data-intensive enterprises. Since its inception in 1992, the company has pioneered technology, product and partner firsts that continue to drive the evolution of storage. NetApp® unified storage solutions include specialized hardware, software and services, providing seamless storage management for open (NAS, SAN and iSCSI) network environments. Major corporations and service providers— including Citicorp Securities, Lockheed, Merrill Lynch, Oracle, Texas Instruments and Yahoo!— utilize NetApp global data management solutions.

“We believe the NetApp unified storage platform coupled with Egenera’s BladeFrame system and PAN Manager™ software offers excellent value in performance, flexibility and investment protection,” said Richard Clifton, vice president SAN/iSAN business unit, Network Appliance. “We are pleased to join the Egenera Alliance program as an Enterprise Alliances member, and look forward to continued collaboration with Egenera to meet the requirements of our mutual customers.”

Egenera Assured Solution Alliances

The Assured Solution Alliances program validates applications for the BladeFrame environment through rigorous testing in Egenera labs. Joint customers receive installation and tuning parameters designed to optimize performance, and benefit from a coordinated response to support requirements.

GemStone’s GemFire Distributed is a flexible, high-performance, cross-platform and cost-effective data services solution for data distribution, caching and management across blade servers in real-time. GemFire improves the utilization and performance of applications on blade servers to reduce costs, accelerate business processes, increase information effectiveness and allow customers to apply performance and savings to more types of business operations.

“The BladeFrame system is proven to be a high-performance solution for providing true datacenter virtualization,” said Raj Kulkarni, chief technology officer, GemStone Systems, Inc. “With GemFire—a flexible, high-performance data services solution—running on the BladeFrame, users will have a cost-effective data management solution which enables them to extend the applicability of their architectures to a new class of data-intensive applications.”

Sybase pioneers software that integrates platforms, databases and applications delivering solutions that create Information Liquidity—transforming data into economic value. At the foundation of Information Liquidity is Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise (ASE), which is designed to support the demanding requirements of transaction-intensive, mission-critical OLTP and decision-support applications. Sybase ASE scales exceptionally well from two-way to over 64-way processing environments and ASE’s efficient query optimization delivers unsurpassed levels of performance. Sybase ASE is an ideal enterprise-class data manager for the Egenera system’s Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture because ASE takes advantage of the BladeFrame’s software-based resource management, automatic failover through a diskless Processing Blade™ design, and network virtualization to deliver high availability, higher scalability and lower TCO.

“Database applications are among the most mission-critical services supported by an enterprise-class datacenter,” said Herman Li, Vice President of Engineering, Infrastructure Platform Group, Sybase. “Running Sybase solutions, including Sybase ASE, on the BladeFrame system, with its automated N+1 failover and unique virtualization capabilities, offers users an exceptionally reliable, scalable and cost-effective solution. As members of the Egenera Alliance program, we look forward to extending the traction we’ve already established with Egenera among our joint customers.”

Egenera Professional Services Alliances

To help customers achieve the benefits of migrating their mission-critical applications from proprietary RISC/UNIX systems to the BladeFrame, Egenera maintains professional services relationships with industry leaders. Expert assistance is available in the areas of project management, training, tuning and optimization, operations and more. Members of the Professional Services Alliances program are committed to ensuring successful, rapid application deployments for Egenera customers.

netNumina, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. with offices in New York City, is a privately-owned strategic technology consulting firm dedicated to providing Global 2000 companies with customized, large-scale business solutions. Since its inception in 1997, netNumina has integrated a wide range of complex solutions. netNumina’s combination of deep domain knowledge and unparalleled technology expertise has helped clients such as Pfizer, Fidelity, State Street, WBUR, and Johnson and Johnson benefit from the best new technologies available. For more information visit www.netnumina.com.

“netNumina is committed to helping corporations maximize the benefits of their IT investments through our technology strategy, architecture and custom development services,” said Imran Sayeed, founder and Chairman of netNumina. “The combination of Egenera’s BladeFrame system and our Egenera Migration Strategy service allows these corporations to successfully adopt, plan and deploy scalable, reliable, manageable and cost-effective solutions for their enterprises.”

About Egenera Inc.

Egenera’s breakthrough virtualization technology optimizes the use of network, compute and storage resources to enable the next-generation utility datacenter. The Company’s Egenera™ BladeFrame™ system leads the industry in both server blade technology and virtualization software by enabling datacenters to run any application, on any resource, at any time, automatically. Today, BladeFrames are installed at marquee customers worldwide, including more than half of the world’s largest investment banks, major Internet service providers, telecommunications companies, healthcare providers and government agencies. A world-class service and support organization ensures customer satisfaction. Moreover, the Company has assembled a senior management team and engineering staff with an average 20-plus years’ experience. Relationships with Microsoft, Intel, BEA Systems, EMC, Itochu Techno-Science Corporation (CTC), Oracle, Red Hat and Veritas, among others, further strengthen the value proposition. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Hong Kong, Kansas City, London, New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington D.C. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600.

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