Egenera Names Subo Guha Senior Vice President of Business Development


MARLBORO, MA--(Marketwire - February 6, 2008) - Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization company, today announced that Subo Guha has joined the company as senior vice president of Business Development. In his role, Mr. Guha will be responsible for driving business relationships with major partners and devising strategies to broaden Egenera's global markets and partner ecosystem.

Mr. Guha brings nearly two decades of business development and marketing experience to Egenera. Prior to Egenera, Mr. Guha served as director of Enterprise Software Marketing at Dell Inc., responsible for the company's enterprise virtualization, systems management and security business. As a key contributor to Dell's ascent in market share, as well as growth in the company's virtualization and systems management business, Mr. Guha is well versed in defining and executing on global business development plans. Earlier, Mr. Guha was director of Global Server Marketing and Global Services Marketing for Dell's award winning PowerEdge™ servers, Dell|EMC and PowerVault™ storage and software solutions. He has also held senior roles at NCR Corporation.

"I am excited to be part of Egenera, a company leading the way in infrastructure virtualization," said Mr. Guha. "Based on my experiences in the virtualization and systems management industry, I've realized that enterprise customers need a simpler way to manage infrastructures comprised of heterogeneous virtual machines, servers, storage and networks. My decision to join Egenera was easy as I am familiar with Egenera's proven solutions. I am confident in Egenera's accelerated leadership in the next wave of virtualization."

"Subo's extensive experience in the virtualization market and growing global business partnerships will be invaluable to Egenera's future strategy," said Mike Thompson, president and CEO, Egenera. "I look forward to his leadership in strengthening and broadening our alliances and overall presence."

Mr. Guha holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, a master's degree in engineering from Southern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in business administration from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He has been published in numerous business journals on MIS and business process reengineering.

About Egenera, Inc.

Egenera is a global leader in data center virtualization solutions that reduce costs and complexity for enterprises, service providers and public sector agencies worldwide. Egenera hardware and software solutions virtualize compute, storage and networking infrastructure, and provide a full suite of integrated virtualization management services for high-availability, disaster recovery, dynamic re-provisioning, security and administration. Market-leading enterprises around the world trust Egenera to run their most critical applications and achieve higher resource utilization, faster application time to market and lower total cost of ownership. 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.

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