In March 2000, the eve of the tech crash, Vern J. Brownell left his cushy job as chief technology officer at Goldman Sachs to launch a startup that sells costly, hard-to-explain computers in direct competition with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. Yet rather than suffer what could be called an innovator's nightmare, Brownell raised $94 million, shipped his first computer on time and won customers around the world. He is either lucky or on to something big. "I've found the universal pain point of computer administrators," he says. "It's helped us do great things in a horrible environment." Brownell's company, Egenera, is an early leader in "virtualization," the hot tech trend aimed at taming corporate data. Instead of sprawls of special-purpose computer servers―one for Internet applications, one for e-mail and so on―a virtualized system uses one machine to do all of these functions.
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机译：2000年3月，技术崩溃的前夜，维尔恩·布朗威尔（Vern J. Brownell）离开了他在高盛（Goldman Sachs）担任首席技术官的轻松工作，成立了一家初创公司，出售与IBM，惠普和惠普直接竞争的昂贵且难以解释的计算机。 Sun Microsystems。然而，布朗内尔没有遭受所谓的创新者的噩梦，而是筹集了9400万美元，按时交付了他的第一台计算机，赢得了世界各地的客户。他要么很幸运，要么很着迷。他说：“我已经发现了计算机管理员的普遍痛点。” “这有助于我们在可怕的环境中做伟大的事情。” Brownell的公司Egenera是“虚拟化”的早期领导者，“虚拟化”是旨在驯服公司数据的热门技术趋势。虚拟化系统使用一台计算机来完成所有这些功能，而不是散布专用计算机服务器（一个用于Internet应用程序，一个用于电子邮件等等）。
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