BLADE Network Technologies
NAS Recovery - BLADE Network Technologies
BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE) is a California-based supplier of Gigabit and 10G Ethernet network infrastructure solutions for blade servers and storage racks. The company was established in 2006 by Garnett & Helfrich Capital.
BLADE’s major offering includes a comprehensive line of top-of-rack and bladed 1-10 Gigabit Ethernet switches. They find application in high-performance computing (HPC);multimedia applications such as Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Video on Demand (VOD); online gaming; financial analysis; security; cloud networking, Web 2.0 and other I/O-intensive applications.
RackSwitch
BLADE’s RackSwitch product family consists of 1-10 Gigabit Ethernet top-of-rack data center switches. These products are characterized by their enhanced server virtualization capability at the rack level. They also enable rack-friendly cooling and reduce the complexity through simplified management and fabric convergence.
RackSwitch is specifically designed for IBM’s iDataPlex, a custom-configured rack system, designed to address I/O-intensive Web 2.0 applications and cloud computing with minimal cooling and energy requirements.
Blade Server Switches
BLADE offers embedded Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switches for IBM BladeCenter, HP BladeSystem, NEC SIGMABLADE and Verari BladeSwitch. Their functionalities include: consolidate server I/O, enable network virtualization, and reduce data center complexity.
BLADE’s top-of-rack and blade server switches obey Rackonomics – a set of rules prescribed for provisioning essential server, storage and networking infrastructure economically. It is found that BLADE’s RackSwitch top-of-rack data center switch products perform with up to 12.4× less latency, 73 percent less energy and 6.5× better price/performance compared to similar top-of-rack data center switches.
BLADE also provides BLADE network management and virtualization software products. They include SmartConnect with Vmready and BLADEHarmony Manager.
