Partner Testimonials

“In today’s challenging economy, 10 Gigabit Ethernet data center networking remains a strong and growing segment. We are delighted to team up with BLADE as a trusted provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions for high performance computing clusters, IP storage, IPTV and Web 2.0 applications. BLADE’s RackSwitch products are best-of-breed top-of-rack switches that deliver the high bandwidth and low latency essential to today’s consolidated and virtualized data centers. The addition of BLADE’s solutions to our line card is indicative of our ongoing commitment to offer industry-leading solutions to our customers.”
Gary Gammon, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Marketing
Bell Micro


“Broadcom views BLADE Network Technologies as an innovator and leader in the emerging blade server market. We’re very pleased to be working with them to develop high-quality, robust networking solutions for the blade server industry.”
Martin Lund, Vice President and General Manager, Network Switching Business Unit
Broadcom


“Emulex and BLADE Network Technologies are working with IBM to bring industry-leading 10Gb/s Ethernet and virtual I/O solutions to the market that help IT managers reduce costs and scale their operations through the performance and consolidation benefits of network convergence. Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapters for IBM BladeCenter are based on our OneConnect™ Universal Converged Network Adapter architecture and work seamlessly with BLADE’s convergence-ready switches to provide an ideal solution for IBM BladeCenter customers seeking to lower capital expenditures, maximize blade consolidation and deploy highly virtualized environments.”
Steve Daheb, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development
Emulex

"BLADE Network's switches form an integral part of EvoStor's Enterprise class Virtualized Storage product. We chose BLADE because of their excellent customer support coupled with true enterprise class features in a mature product line. This helped EvoStor bring about the best possible performance, manageability and reliability in our Virtualized Storage product. We would highly recommend BLADE Networks and their products to any other technology company and fully expect to continue our successful partnership with BLADE for many years to come."
Michael Gigante, CTO & Co-Founder
EvoStor Inc.


"Fulcrum is pleased to be the technology partner working with BLADE Network Technologies to develop high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches that empower the next generation of data centers. Combining our FocalPoint switch chip family with BLADE's advanced datacenter software, BLADE's products offer dramatic improvements in performance, power and cost versus traditional networking solutions.”
Bob Nunn, CEO
Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc.


“Networking is critical to ensure that huge amounts of data are being transferred as fast as possible. With BLADE’s Rackswitch, we have the flexibility to offer both Gigabit and 10 Gigabit to deliver extremely functional solutions that cost half that of our competitors, while offering easy integration into customer existing infrastructure.”
Keith Warburton, Managing Director
Global Distribution

Mark Potter, Vice President, HP Blade System
Hewlett-Packard


“This is a very unique relationship in the industry benefiting our customers and IBM. Our partnership across development, sales, and marketing has clearly demonstrated that BLADE is the gold standard among innovative BladeCenter partners.”

Ishan Sehgal, Program Director, BladeCenter Marketing, IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Corporation


“We are delighted to partner with BLADE Network Technologies in order to provide customers with Infortrend’s EonStor G6 family with BLADE’s 10G RackSwitch for network connectivity. These new EonStor products integrate BLADE’s RackSwitch G8124 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch to provide the essential high-speed, low-latency fabric for data-intensive storage networking.”
Thomas Kao, Director of Product Planning and Global Marketing Director
Infortrend Technology


“By partnering with BLADE, Inspur can leverage BLADE’s intelligent 1/10G Ethernet switches to provide high-performance, low-latency, greener network connectivity. More importantly, BLADE’s VMready feature enables our enterprise clients to maximize their ROI in server virtualization with lower networking costs and ease of network management."
Liu Jun, General Manager, Inspur High Performance Server Division
Inspur


“BLADE Network Technologies’ VMready is the industry’s first network-based solution that detects Hyper-V migrations as they occur to ensure that network security, performance and access policies follow virtual machines as they move from server to server across the data center,” said John Zanni, general manager of Worldwide Hosting for the Communications Sector at Microsoft Corp. “BLADE and MaximumASP’s partnership is a great example of how Microsoft’s Dynamic Data Center is enabling new, differentiated services in the hosting industry.”
John Zanni, General Manager of Worldwide Hosting for the Communications Sector
Microsoft Corp.


“BLADE’s VMready has shown great promise as a natural network-based complement to Microsoft Hyper-V. Alternative virtual switching solutions are simply too complex and expensive to be a good fit for the hosting model.”
Ryan Jones, Virtualization Product Manager
MaximumASP
 

“Our relationship with BLADE Network Technologies is a natural fit as both companies aim to deliver to customers storage and networking solutions that reduce costs, power and boost manageability in the data center. Further strengthening this partnership is the emphasis that we both place on furthering the capabilities of Ethernet Storage through both iSCSI and FCoE standards. NetApp's philosophy and strength has always been to offer a unified, multiprotocol storage portfolio that gives customers the benefit of both efficiency and performance. By working closely with our solutions partners like BLADE Network Technologies to leverage 10 Gigabit Ethernet, we help customers seeking to consolidate data center resources and increase value and efficiency by sharing the bandwidth of a high-performance 10GE network infrastructure. Increased bandwidth and added enhancements to support FCoE and DCB make BLADE’s RackSwitch an ideal solution for modern data centers.”
Patrick Rogers, Vice President of Solutions and Alliances

NetApp


“BLADE’s high-speed data fabric spans top-of-rack and blade server networking, which enables our Netezza TwinFin appliance to reset the price-performance bar for the data warehouse and analytics market. The BLADE solution provides high-speed networking and a common management infrastructure to ensure that Netezza can once again extend our clear leadership in providing our customers with the highest levels of data-driven intelligence with the lowest total cost of ownership."
John Metzger, Vice President, Product Strategy
Netezza Corporation


"We have been working in partnership with BLADE Network Technologies and IBM to install a HPC environment at King's College London. The University's Biomedical Research department required an infrastructure which could analyse, store and archive vast quantities of medical data and would be simple to configure and operate. BLADE's RackSwitch solutions were chosen for their low-latency, low power and low cost, and complete compatibility with the IBM iDataplex server hardware. We have thoroughly enjoyed working with BLADE on this project; their experienced team of engineers has provided invaluable technical support and information on the BLADE solutions and we look forward to working more with them in the future."
Barry Evans, Technical Director
OCF

“SGI customers in Internet/cloud computing, financial services, digital media and other segments increasingly want to upgrade their networks to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The BLADE RackSwitch family combines the industry’s lowest pricing, at under $500 per 10G port, with top performance and administrator-friendly management, which enables our customers to realize the lowest total cost of ownership for their data center infrastructures. With technology partners, such as BLADE Network Technologies, SGI is able to offer flexible, scalable, non-proprietary solutions to our customers at very competitive costs.”
Bill Mannel, Vice President of Product Management
SGI


“BLADE’s RackSwitch products are today’s best-of-breed data center switches for enterprise computing, cloud computing and virtualization and are extremely popular across the commercial sector. As a SEWP Prime Contract Holder, TKCIS is pleased to partner with BLADE Network Technologies to serve the rapidly growing demand for 10 Gigabit Ethernet data center networks for enterprise computing centers throughout the federal government.”
Joel A. Lipkin, General Manager
TKC Integration Services, LLC


“Customers building private cloud environments depend on networking solutions that are optimized for virtualization. VMready integrates with VMware vCenter™ Server, enabling customers to configure the network configurations of virtual machines on both VMware vSphere™ vSwitches and physical VMready switches to help ensure network security, quality of service and proper configurations are implemented to increase efficiency, performance and reliability.”
Parag Patel, Vice President, Alliances 
VMware