Egenera

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Egenera, Inc.
Industry cloud software
automation
PredecessorFort Technologies
FoundedMarch 2000
FounderVern Brownell
Headquarters Boxborough, Massachusetts
Area served
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Hong Kong
ProductsEgenera 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.

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Egenera maintains overseas headquarters in the United Kingdom, Japan and Hong Kong. [2]

History

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

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

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References

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