http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0365095.htm

Blade.org, the industry consortium driving innovation in blade-based solutions, announced that NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) has been named a governing member and that NetApp’s Adam Mendoza will join the organization’s board of directors.

Mendoza is NetApp’s senior manager for the Virtualization and Grid Infrastructures business unit. One of his principal responsibilities is the development of a virtualization solution strategy and portfolio that utilize blade server architectures and provide reference architectures that customers can leverage and adopt. He is also responsible for the development of strategic alliances with leading technology companies that jointly focus on the business, technology, and operational considerations for next-generation data center environments.

Very cool news for NetApp and Blade.org. The more vendors we bring online, the more we can show that blade technology can be a real enabler to your business with the right sort of related components, solutions and software; for example deploying blade servers using NetApp storage could be an ideal virtualization solution.