News Facts
-- The US Department of Veterans Affairs Corporate Data Center Operations
(CDCO) will be implementing the Dell PAN System as a key component of the
mission-essential Health Associated Infection & Influenza Surveillance
System (HAIISS).
-- HAIISS is an early warning system for influenza or hospital-acquired
infectious disease outbreaks or pandemics. The system collects data on
reported influenza and infectious diseases cases from the 100+ VA centers
throughout the US that treat millions of veterans and their families each
year.
-- The initial purchase supports a pilot system of HAIISS, scheduled to
launch in late spring 2009. Upon completion of the pilot, the hardware will
be rescaled before being rolled out to VA centers across the nation.
-- The Dell PAN System integrates PAN Manager Software by Egenera with
Dell servers allowing CDCO to easily scale the HAIISS application and their
Dell infrastructure, as well as enabling servers to be easily and quickly
provisioned into virtual or physical machines while maintaining high
availability of the mission-critical HAIISS application.
-- The Dell PAN System unifies virtual and physical resources to simplify
the data center, and enables rapid provisioning to meet VA's Contingency
Planning requirements.
Supporting Quotes
"The Dell PAN system met requirements for a processing resource pool that
could be resized and reallocated as needs changed," said James Yaple, Chief
Technology Officer at CDCO. "We required a configuration that had the
ability to expand with a linear cost structure as the HAIISS rollout
progressed."
"The Dell PAN System provides high availability and other mission-critical
functionality to cost-effectively meet the needs of organizations such as
VA, thereby helping position Dell as a strategic player in the data
center," said Mike Thompson, president, CEO and chairman of Egenera.
Supporting Resources
-- Dell PAN System
-- PAN Manager
software by Egenera for Dell
-- US Department of Veterans
Affairs, Corporate Data Center Operations
About CDCO
CDCO is a comprehensive IT services enterprise center for federal
agencies. CDCO provides 100% of services on a fee-for-service basis, as
authorized under the Government Management Reform Act of 1994. CDCO
operates under the organizational framework of VA's centralized Office of
Information and Technology (OI&T), but does not receive direct federal
appropriations. The success of the CDCO depends on the ability to fully
recover costs from customer revenue, satisfy customer requirements, and to
expand the customer base.
About Egenera, Inc.
Egenera makes every data center a reliable dynamic data center, quickly and
easily. The company's integrated enterprise data center solutions,
powerful PAN Manager® software and professional services are trusted
globally to deliver proven value through agility, reliability and
availability. Egenera solutions and services guarantee wire-once, always
on, physical and virtual management across the data center with measurable
savings. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices worldwide.
For more information visit http://www.egenera.com, call 508-858-2600 or
send email to info@egenera.com.
About the Dell PAN System
The Dell PAN System is an integrated product that transforms Dell servers
into flexible resources that can rapidly and automatically allocated based
on demand requirements. The software abstracts physical data center
components (compute, I/O, network) so they can be orchestrated
(flexibly-managed) to create a policy-based, highly-available computing
platform. The system simplifies the rapid provisioning and repurposing of
both physical and virtual servers, and provides unified HA and verifiable
DR. The customer benefits from an infrastructure with massive efficiencies
and overall cost reduction for mission-critical applications.
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trademarks or registered trademarks of Egenera, Inc. in the United States
and other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders. The information in this
document is subject to change without notice.
Contact Information: Contact Info Christine Crandell Egenera (415) 309 7017 ccrandell@egenera.com