Egenera's Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture combines stateless, diskless processing blades with unique virtualization software (PAN Manager) to dramatically reduce data centre complexity and deliver an agile, highly-available infrastructure. PAN Manager software replaces hardware infrastructure with software and eliminates manual, resource-intensive systems administration tasks through integrated automation.

Rather than tie specific operating systems and applications to a server, PAN Manager creates pools of compute, storage and network resources that can be dynamically allocated as needed. In conjunction with the Egenera BladeFrame, PAN Manager delivers a fully virtualized computing infrastructure in an integrated, highly-available system.

Key Benefits

• Reduces complexity by up to 80%
• Lowers total cost of ownership and operational expenses by up to 75%
• Enables two-minute server provisioning and re-provisioning
• Provides cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery for all applications
• Delivers valuable virtualization services including logical resource partitioning, multi-frame management from a single administrative domain, online server configuration changes, chargeback and other services
• Complete "lights out" management