OREANDA-NEWS. October 19, 2011. Egenera, a provider of enterprise-scale converged infrastructure management solutions, today announces it has signed an intent-to-deliver agreement with NEC, the leading volume server provider in the Japanese market, to develop PAN Manager? software optimized for the unique capabilities of the company's SIGMABLADE System. NEC will be the worldwide sole distributor of PAN Manager? Software Solution for the NEC SIGMABLADE System.

Egenera provides unified management and automation for physical and virtual computing environments. Utilizing a single user interface, PAN Manager simplifies data center infrastructure and management by leveraging standard server and networking technology to create a data center fabric on which both bare metal and virtualized workloads can be quickly and easily provisioned, providing the ideal platform for delivering cloud-based services and large scale Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments, along with other business and mission critical enterprise applications that demand a flexible and highly available computing environment.

"Our partnership with NEC positions Egenera at the heart of the emerging opportunity for cloud computing in Japan as we continue to deliver data center automation for reliable, protected virtual and physical environments," said Pete Manca, Egenera chairman, president and CEO. "We look forward to working with NEC and to the opportunities the partnership creates for the future."

NEC's SIGMABLADE allows for optimal server consolidation and provides a robust foundation for mission-critical enterprise infrastructure. Reliable support of such architecture is an essential element of the company's strategy for delivering cloud solutions and services that contribute not only to the field of information technology and networks but also to societal, individual and corporate activities.

"NEC is excited to enter this new partnership with Egenera," said Takao?Maruyama, NEC associate senior vice president. "The relationship extends NEC's rich history of providing customers with technologies and expertise across a wide range of mission critical systems. Egenera's PAN Manager combined with NEC's SIGMABLADE systems builds on that foundation and enables us to flexibly and economically?create highly reliable private clouds for businesses."