Cloud Silver Lining and Announce Partnership to Bring Converged Infrastructure Management to the Cloud
September 28, 2011
Cloud Silver Lining, an IT consultancy which guides enterprises in the business-focused assessment and adoption of Cloud technologies, and Egenera, a provider of enterprise-scale converged infrastructure data center solutions and services, today announced a strategic partnership to certify Egenera’s PAN Manager as Cloud-compatible. The Cloud Silver Lining certification process, Xertification, assesses products for compliance with the seven characteristics of Cloud as defined by the Cloud Council of 7…
Egenera provides unified management and simplified operation for physical and virtual computing environments. Utilizing a single user interface, PAN Manager transforms silos of physical and virtual network infrastructure into an integrated and reliable computing platform that is used extensively for cloud and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) initiatives.
"Through its converged infrastructure management solutions, Egenera brings together unified computing, integrated availability and recovery services for both physical and virtual infrastructures," said Bob Shinn, founder, Cloud Silver Lining. "This partnership between Cloud Silver Lining and Egenera is an important step in certifying the cloud compatibility of Egenera’s products and services for our enterprise IT clients, who are right in the midst of assessing the business value of implementing Cloud computing technologies."
"Partnering with Cloud Silver Lining will help Egenera rapidly expand the market for its software, solutions and services while providing our customers with access to Cloud Silver Lining’s advanced Cloud assessment and process improvement consulting expertise," said John Humphreys, vice president of marketing, Egenera. "Egenera and Cloud Silver Lining offer complementary strengths and solutions to a wide range of enterprise customers looking to bring cloud to their organization."
Based in Chicago, IL and Boston, MA, Cloud Silver Lining services clients worldwide. For more information on the company, please visit http://cloudsilverlining.com .
Egenera, based in Boxborough, MA, has over 1,600 production installations globally, including premier enterprise data centers, service providers and government agencies. For more information on the company, please visit http://egenera.com .