Egenera's New Agreement with HPM Networks Expands HP Market

Egenera, a provider of production-proven converged infrastructure data center solutions, claimed that it has signed as new reseller agreement with HPM Networks, an HP Preferred Partner and one of HP's largest solution providers, and the agreement will enable HP to have more market presence in the West Coast.

HPM Networks offers enterprise IT solutions and professional services with specialized virtualization and networking practices and has large presence in the Northern Californian region and major west coast business centers. Though Egenera has signed a reseller agreement with HPM now, both the companies are already part of HP AllianceONE, a comprehensive partner program focused on HP's Converged Infrastructure strategy.

Also Egenera and HP have partnered to deliver PAN Manager Software for HP BladeSystem, featuring the only enterprise-class, fully-automated high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.  

Egenera stated that HPM’s core competencies and established relationship with HP are an extraordinary fit with Egenera’s business objectives and technology, particularly Egenera PAN Manager Software for HP BladeSystem. HPM claimed that its portfolio of systems and services provide customers with cost effective and resilient business computing solutions with extended technical support from a single supplier.

Officials with HPM asserted that PAN Manager Software stands apart from its competitors in several important ways: It is the only converged infrastructure solution that supports multiple vendor platforms, which is important to HPM's philosophy of leveraging 'best-of-breed' systems and solutions. The solution is quick to deploy and intuitive to use, enabling clients to quickly leverage the infrastructure optimization and automation benefits PAN Manager delivers.

The software can provide integrated infrastructure management and orchestration capabilities that keep heterogeneous data centers productive and responsive. 

Some of the key benefits of PAN Manager software are: instant provisioning of servers and infrastructure; high availability and failover; verifiable disaster recovery; secure partitioning/multi-tenancy; reduced hardware I/O; open, multi-brand platform support; flexible and on-demand capacity; and more.