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On February 13, 2006, Nortel and Garnett & Helfrich Capital announced that the two companies have entered into an agreement to establish Nortel’s Blade Server Switch Business Unit (“BSSBU”) as a private enterprise—BLADE Network Technologies, Inc.—the industry’s first vendor to focus exclusively on serving the network infrastructure requirements of the rapidly growing blade server market. Our...More»

2350 Mission College Boulevard Suite 600 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Map it »
408-850-8999
2006
Computer Systems
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Private

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Date Type Capital Amount Post-Money Valuation Investors
09/2009 Series B 10M Unknown

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Name:Rack Switch
Product URL:http://www.bladenetwork.net/pages/products_rackswitch.html
Description:BLADE’s new 1U RackSwitch product family extends virtualization by mirroring the benefits of server virtualization within the network at the rack level, saves energy through rack-friendly cooling and alleviates management pain by removing complexity through simplified management and fabric convergence.

* VIRTUAL: Networking Virtualization switch-resident software
o SmartConnect™: Worlds first rack-level network virtualization
o VMready™: Removes stress on network caused by virtualization (e.g. migrating network security policies)
* COOLER: First server and storage rack-optimized switch
o Airflow to match server and storage racks, not wiring closets
* EASIER: Simple management
o BLADEHarmony™ Manager for centrally managing 1000’s of BLADE switches
o Converged fabric with 10G Ethernet avoids dealing with multiple networks

RackSwitch products from BLADE take a breakthrough approach that is becoming known as “Rackonomics” to reduce the total cost of ownership of data center infrastructures, overcome network overload and enable scale-out data center economies.

For the first time, data center architects can standardize on a unified and affordable rack-level network infrastructure to provision and scale out Web 2.0 environments, high-performance clusters and virtualized data centers.
Screenshots: Rack Switch product

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