Testimonials

"DAS-3 is an ambitious High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) environment prototyping various novel protocols and systems for the processing and sharing of very large amounts of data on a computational grid. In the large-scale use cases investigated on our system, often much higher bandwidths, lower latencies and more consistent network performance are required than would be typical for enterprise environments. For our project, we chose the BLADE RackSwitch equipment specifically based on its rich functionality combined with excellent price/performance."
Professor Henri Bal
Advanced School for Computing & Imaging (ASCI), Netherlands


“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 Microproducts



“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


“CariNet's Cloud Computing services, including our Cloud Center Datacenter as a Service, rely on BLADE Network Technologies' RackSwitch to provide security, costs savings and scalability while meeting specific business and technical needs. CariNet's cloud computing environment is only as strong and dependable as the hardware environment it runs on, which is why we leave nothing to chance in using BLADE's RackSwitch to deliver the best-of-breed networking essential for cloud computing.”
Mark Ortenzi, President
CariNet


"BLADE Network Technologies' switches with VMready network virtualization for the IBM BladeCenter along with VMware vSphere / ESX 3.5 provides the majority of our 63 medical professionals with administrative software and patient data that operates securely and efficiently. This deployment provides a high-availability architecture platform in two geographically separate computer rooms and fully meets our requirements for security, availability, scalability, processing speed, resources optimization and ease of ownership and administration."
Madam Hélène Sol, IT Director (Directrice Adjointe en charge des Systèmes d'Information)
Centre Hospitalier d'Avignon, France


“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 becuase 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 & 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

“HP is pleased to see that BLADE Network Technologies is now a highly focused, standalone entity that we expect will deliver even more excellent service to HP’s BladeSystem portfolio and the entire blade server industry. BLADE Network Technologies is built on a legacy of dedication to customer satisfaction, and their new independence will only increase their speed of innovation and delivery.” 
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 is well aligned with Juniper Networks in our commitment to reduce the total cost of network ownership while providing the high performance, scalability and virtualization required by today’s dynamic data center environments. Together, Juniper Networks and BLADE address some of the most challenging connectivity needs for next-generation networks.”
David Yen, Executive Vice President and General Manager
Fabric and Switching Technologies Business Group
Juniper Networks
  

“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.”

Patrick Rogers, Vice President Solutions Marketing
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

“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


“When we decided to upgrade and expand our blade server infrastructure, we installed BLADE Network Technologies’ switches for HP’s BladeSystem c-Class servers. One of the key things this allowed us to do is run a Hotlink feature to enable failover between the server switches. It completely meets our needs as it is contained within the server enclosures and does not give rise to any incompatibility issues with our existing core network.”

Ian Tharme, Production Business Consultant
Warwickshire County Council’s