Egenera has been selling its mission-critical PAN Manager® Software since 2001. Based on the Processing Area Network (PAN) concept, PAN Manager simplifies data center infrastructure and management by pooling compute, I/O, network and storage resources. The system's embedded server profile creation, HA and DR facilities ensure a wire-once, always-on environment that supports all virtualization technologies as well as native operating systems.
Egenera has over 1,600 production installations globally, including premier enterprise data centers, service providers and government agencies. PAN Manager is used by IT operations professionals, offering proven, easy-to-use solutions that provide
- Mission-critical availability for enterprise applications such as SAP and Oracle
- High availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) for mixed physical and virtual environments
- Rapid server profile creation and provisioning for both single servers and entire environments
- Elastic Infrastructure-as-a-Service foundations for cloud-computing
Simpler to install and use than traditional management, clustering and DR tools, PAN Manager is more reliable and typically reduces TCO by 50% over alternatives. Egenera customers benefit from up to 75% fewer physical I/O and networking components, and have simplified their IT operations by as much as 95% compared to traditional point-products.
Our unique approach is enabled by technologies including I/O virtualization, converged fabric networking, converged infrastructure and unified computing. Egenera holds a number of patents in these and other areas.
PAN Manager Software is available on these major platforms: the Egenera® BladeFrame®, Fujitsu Primergy BladeFrame servers, Fujitsu Primergy BX900 blade servers, Dell blade servers and HP Blade servers. Availability on additional volume platforms is anticipated in the near future.
Egenera maintains over 50 partnerships with the world’s leading technology companies including AMD, Citrix, Dell, HP, EMC, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP and VMware.
The Pan Architecture
The power of PAN Manager® software by Egenera® starts with the concept of a Processing Area Network (PAN). Egenera's PAN architecture delivers unparalleled data center efficiency and reliability through the following technologies:
PAN Builder
Traditionally, servers, I/O and network are statically configured and cumbersome to change. The PAN architecture defines a set of PAN foundation services, which pool and abstract industry-standard x86 servers, I/O, SAN storage and data networks into agile resource pools, enabling those resources to be rapidly and automatically re-allocated based upon business requirements. >>Read more.
PAN Server Portability
Using PAN Manager's automated provisioning capabilities, application mobility lets you move applications among servers on demand, in response to workload requirements, time-of-day scheduling, system outages or changes in application resource utilization. And all without using a hypervisor. >>Read more.
PAN Portability
The combination of PAN foundation services plus application mobility provides a powerful platform for the PAN management services. These integrated services—including rapid server template provisioning, unified management for virtual and physical resources, disaster recovery and high availability—are simple to use and reliable in response to the dynamic requirements of today's data center environments. >>Read more.
