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BLADE WebinarsAugust 2008 On-Demand Webcast with BLADE CEO and Gartner Group Analyst — Building the Next Generation “Virtual, Cooler and Easier” Data Center with RackonomicsFocused on building next generation data centers a rack at a time on 10G Ethernet Join Vikram Mehta, President & CEO, of BLADE Network Technologies, and Gartner Research VP, Joe Skorupa, for a free, on-demand webcast. In this seventeen minute webcast, you will learn:
Featured Speakers:Vikram Mehta CEO, BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. 
Vikram Mehta brings 20 years of global experience in the technology industry and has been at the helm of the company since its inception. Under his leadership BLADE Network Technologies has become the industry’s #1 provider of blade server switch solutions. He co-founded Nortel’s Blade Server Switch Business (BSSBU) in 2002 and led the business through June 2005. Under his leadership, BSSBU partnered with the world’s largest suppliers of blade server systems—IBM and HP—and became one of Nortel’s fastest growing businesses. In July 2005, Vikram joined Garnett & Helfrich Capital as CEO-in-Residence and brokered the alliance between Nortel and Garnett & Helfrich Capital to spin out BSSBU and establish it as an independent company. Vikram came to Nortel through its acquisition of Alteon Web Systems, the leading provider of Web & application switches, in 2000. At Alteon, he led the company’s strategic alliances and laid the foundation for what would later become BSSBU. Prior to Alteon, he served as Vice President of Marketing at Ensim, a leading supplier of service enablement and automation software for hosted IP and application services. Before Ensim, Vikram spent 12 years at HP in various leadership and executive positions across the company’s diverse operations in India, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, and the US. His last position at HP was GM, Enterprise Servers, North America Region. Vikram is an electrical engineer from the Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India. Joe Skorupa Research VP, Gartner, Inc. 
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June 24th, 2008 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Pacific 10G Ethernet: Overcoming Network Overload with Rackonomics—an innovative approach to scaling out data center networks!Focused on our offerings for IBM, plus a Guest Speaker from IDC Are you looking for a way to overcome network overload? Many IT departments are faced with this issue today or will be in the future. BLADE Network Technologies is proud be sponsoring this informational webinar with our guest speaker Cindy Borovick from IDC. This webinar looks at networking trends and issues facing today’s IT, networking, and data center managers as well as CTOs and CIOs. We also discuss some of the best practices and BLADE’s revolutionary approach—called “Rackonomics”—for scaling out data center networks and driving down the total cost of ownership. Presentation slides and further info Viewers will learn about:
Featured Speakers:Lucinda (Cindy) Borovick Research Vice President for IDC’s Datacenter Networks service 
Cindy provides market analysis, research, and consulting on the datacenter. She has particular expertise on key technical and business issues concerning networking adoption by place in the network. She analyzes server, storage and application deployments and how the interconnection of these technologies translates into requirements on the datacenter and remote branch. Specific research responsibilities include analyzing the impact of application networking, WAN application delivery, blade server networking, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and storage networking on the datacenter of the future within the enterprise and service provider marketplace. Michael Easterly BLADE Network Technologies’ Director of Marketing
Mike Easterly has over 15 years experience in sales and marketing roles in the IT industry. Prior to joining BLADE Network Technologies, he led Americas BladeCenter product management at IBM, an industry leader and innovator in the blade market. Before that Mike held multiple roles at IBM including competitive intelligence, product marketing and enterprise sales. 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. The company’s customers include half of the Fortune 500 across 26 industry segments, and an installed base of over 170,000 network switches representing more than 4 million switch ports. For more information, visit www.bladenetwork.net. June 25th, 2008 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Pacific 10G Ethernet: The Future of Scalable Networks for Blade Server VirtualizationFocused on our offerings for HP, plus a Guest Speaker from IDC
Presentation slides and further info In this 60 minute Webinar you will learn about:
Featured Speakers:John Humphreys Program Vice President with IDC’s Enterprise Platform Group
John heads up the Enterprise Virtualization Software program covering the range of virtualization products deployed in both data center and client environments. The program also examines the role of manageability in the emerging virtual environment. Additional areas of focus include the adoption of blade servers, the modularization of the data center along with the automation and virtualization of the data center environment, and the emergence of grid computing in the enterprise. John received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University and a Master’s degree from the University of Wyoming. Mark Hudson Chief Marketing Officer, Blade Network Technologies
Mark is responsible for Strategy and Product Management, Field and Channel Marketing, Marketing Communications, and Strategic Alliances. Prior to joining Blade, Mark spent 19 years at Hewlett-Packard. In his most recent role, he was Vice President Worldwide Marketing for HP’s Enterprise Storage and Server business (ESS). Prior to this, Mark was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for HP’s Business Critical Systems organization. Mark holds a Bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fresno, and a Master’s degree in business administration from Santa Clara University. 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. The company’s customers include half of the Fortune 500 across 26 industry segments, and an installed base of over 170,000 network switches representing more than 4 million switch ports. For more information, visit www.bladenetwork.net. |
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