Blade Network Technologies Overview
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»
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 products represent a strategic control point in a blade server system. They are the gateway for all traffic directed to and from a blade server system. As a strategic control point, our products have a direct influence on a blade server system’s performance, high availability, scalability, manageability, security, and total cost-of-ownership.
Our blade server switches serve as the network backbone of thousands of HP Blade Systems and IBM BladeCenters at some of the world’s largest enterprises. Enterprises across 25 industry segments use BLADE Network Technologies blade server switches!«Less
Key People
Management
- Vikram Mehta, President/CEO
- Robert Murden, VP Operations
- Gerry Claflin, VP Software & Test Engineering
- Jim Sladek, VP Finance
- Shailesh Naik, VP Sales
- Stefan Zuckut, VP Corporate Development
- Mark Hudson, CMO
- Dan Tuchler, VP Strategy & Product Management
- Mark Verbeck, CFO
- Ardene Fullerton, Director of Human Resources
Board of Directors
Funding
| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/2009 | Series B | 10M | Unknown |
Products
| 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. |
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