BLADE Network Technologies

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/26/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE), the data center switching and network virtualization company, announced today that its 10 Gigabit Ethernet RackSwitch now extends the popular IBM Virtual Fabric -- previously available only for BladeCenter -- to multiple System x tower and ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/20/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the data center switching and virtualization company, and member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, announced today that its VMready™ Ethernet switches support the latest release of Oracle® VM server virtualization software and Oracle Linux software. VMready ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/16/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE), the data center switching company, announced today the new RackSwitch G8052, a top-of-rack Gigabit Ethernet edge switch with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) uplinks for 40Gbps connectivity to upstream networks and a rich combination of networking features ... read more

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/31/10 -- Today at VMworld 2010, BLADE Network Technologies, the data center switching and network virtualization company, announced VMready™ 3.0 with Virtual Vision for automating, provisioning and securing the network in the virtualized data center. BLADE's Virtual Vision "sees" Virtual Machines (VMs) as ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/27/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, the data center Ethernet switching company, Solarflare® Communications, the leading provider of 10GbE silicon, and Cloudsoft Corporation, a provider of cloud computing software and services that drive application mobility, announced today the results of multivendor benchmarking of Monterey, ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/13/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), a trusted leader in data center networking, announced the appointment of Michael Lethbridge as the company's first country manager for Canada. Michael has extensive sales management experience with Canadian IT companies such as SunGard Availability ... read more

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 06/22/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), a trusted leader in data center networking, announced at the SIFMA Financial Services Technology Expo that its RackSwitch 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch now delivers Multicast protocols at sub-700 nanosecond port-to-port latency for high-frequency trading, market ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/08/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), a trusted leader in data center networking, announced today that BLADE's RackSwitch 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches have been selected by IBM for inclusion in the IBM System x option portfolio. BLADE's RackSwitch™ ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/04/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), a trusted leader in data center networking, announced today the delivery of the industry's first "pure play" Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) top-of-rack switch. BLADE's RackSwitch™ G8124 now includes new lossless CEE enhancements with BLADEOS 6.3 ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/04/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced today that its VMready™ capable Ethernet switches can now manage thousands of Virtual Machines (VMs) across massively scalable data center networks. BLADE's VMready with its unique ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/22/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, will demonstrate the latest trends and developments in 10 Gigabit Ethernet, converged networking and I/O virtualization at Interop Las Vegas with its partners Aprius, Emulex, Mellanox and Voltaire. Aprius ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/01/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced the appointment of former EMC executive Eric Shefler as the company's senior vice president of Worldwide Sales. Shefler has extensive sales leadership experience in both North America and ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/23/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced today the delivery of the industry's first and only fully integrated Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution inside a blade chassis. This integration significantly reduces power, cost, space ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/18/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced that company executives will address at Ethernet Technology Summit key industry trends and technology advances in cloud-ready networking, converged data and storage networks and ultra-low latency for high-frequency trading networks. Ethernet Technology Summit takes ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/18/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced today the availability of -48 volt DC-powered top-of-rack Ethernet switches for telco central office networks and data center environments. The new ultra-efficient DC-powered BLADE RackSwitch G8000 and ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/04/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, today introduced its Unified FabricArchitecture™ (UFA), the industry's fastest, smartest, most integrable and most proven fabric that will eliminate cost and complexity of deploying physical and virtual data center infrastructure. BLADE posted record results ... read more

HERNDON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/28/10 -- TKC Integration Services (TKCIS), a leading federal government integrator, and BLADE Network Technologies Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced today that TKCIS will deliver BLADE's RackSwitch 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet top-of-rack networking switches for procurement through the NASA SEWP IV government-wide acquisition contract (http://www.sewp.nasa.gov). ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/27/10 -- BLADE Network Technologies Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, announced today that BLADE's RackSwitch™ G8124 has received Network World's Clear Choice award in its test of data center switches. BLADE's RackSwitch G8124 delivered a winning combination of features and performance as well ... read more

SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/29/09 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, and Juniper Networks® (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that Juniper has licensed its Junos® operating system to BLADE Network Technologies for the development of Junos-based blade server switches. Under this strategic agreement, BLADE Network Technologies will be ... read more

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/20/09 -- BLADE Network Technologies Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, and SGI (NASDAQ: SGI) announced today that the two companies are teaming up to serve the rapidly growing demand for 10 Gigabit Ethernet in high-density container and data center environments. BLADE is one ... read more