Egenera, the very first company to build a blade system meant to handle peaks and valleys, has reportedly had another purge. It's now on its fourth CEO with CTO and EVP of engineering Pete Manca replacing Mike Thompson and product marketer Ken Oestreich in as its latest marketing VP. A Twitter tweet claims the company is shy a bunch of other folks. It did not return a call. Egenera has been trying to morph from a hardware company into an ISV based on PAN, its infrastructure management and orchestration software, which Dell OEMs for its blade-based Datacenter-in-a-Box and its Pan System.
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kennyo commented on 22 Nov 2009
Actually, Egenera's CEO is staying on as Board chairman. As the company transitions to be a multi-platform player, the feeling is to have management who are experts about software, the converged infrastructure market, and familiar with the players in the space. Ergo the new CEO, and ergo the new levels of backing from investors. The company is still hiring in its field and OEM spaces, and in conversations with multiple IHV partners.
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Prolabs commented on 20 Nov 2009
What I have heard is it was pretty much all the C-level (CMO, CFO, and CEO) plus a lot of people in Engineering and marketing teams.
The worst part it is that the biggest problem they had was that they were too Engineering driven and stuck in their old ways. So now their CEO was the head of the Engineering? I think they have a great product, but it just seems they are having a hard time transitioning.
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