SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/19/09 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced that the company has joined the Microsoft Virtualization Solution Partner Program. BLADE's VMready for its 1-10 Gigabit Ethernet switches enables Microsoft's Hyper-V for dynamic "live" migration of virtual machines (VMs).

"We are delighted to participate in the Microsoft Virtualization Solution Partner Program to help enterprises that have been understandably wary of enabling their production application workloads for mobility and live migration in virtual machine environments," said Dan Tuchler, Vice President of Strategy and Product Management, BLADE Network Technologies. "BLADE's VMready Ethernet switches work with Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V to enable a virtualization-enriched network that is not jeopardized by security vulnerabilities as virtual machines migrate, does not introduce performance bottlenecks and is easy to manage without continual manual intervention."

Microsoft is actively promoting BLADE's VMready through its virtualization-related marketing efforts. Microsoft's extensive partner ecosystem of independent software, hardware and storage vendors complements and extends Microsoft's virtualization toolset with products for desktops, servers, applications, storage, and networks. Together with its partners, Microsoft delivers robust, complete solutions for the virtualized infrastructure. For more information, visit http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/partners/.

Data center architects can use BLADE's VMready switches to overcome network-based obstacles. The inability for security policies to move in concert with the VM is inhibiting broader adoption of server virtualization in the enterprise data center. VMready watches the Virtual Machine environment to ensure that when a live VM moves from one physical host to another, the destination network has been prepared in advance -- preserving essential security, access and performance policies.

The industry's first and only Virtual Machine aware networking solution shipping today, VMready is part of BLADE SmartConnect(TM) switch-resident software that runs on BLADE's Ethernet switches. BLADE's VMready switches will work with Microsoft's Hyper-V as well as other leading server virtualization offerings and releases.

About BLADE Network Technologies

BLADE Network Technologies is the leading supplier of Gigabit and 10G Ethernet network infrastructure solutions that reside in blade servers and "scale-out" server and storage racks. BLADE's new "Virtual, Cooler and Easier" RackSwitch family demonstrates the promise of "Rackonomics" -- a revolutionary approach for scaling out data center networks to drive down total cost of ownership. The company's customers include more than 300 of Fortune 500 companies across 26 industry segments, and an installed base representing more than 250,000 network switches and nearly 6 million switch ports connecting more than 1,200,000 servers. For more information, visit www.bladenetwork.net. Follow us on Twitter at BLADENetwork or read our tweets at www.bladenetwork.net/twitter.html.

BLADE Network Technologies, RackSwitch, VMready, SmartConnect, BLADEHarmony and the BLADE logo are trademarks of BLADE Network Technologies. All other names or marks are property of their respective owners.

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