Bladewatch.com

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=858046

TOKYO–(Marketwire – May 19, 2008) – BLADE Network Technologies Inc. (BLADE), the industry leader in network virtualization and high-performance solutions for servers and storage, announced today that it has launched its sales and support presence in Japan and has appointed Yasunobu Ohta as Country Manager of Japan Operations. With this launch and appointment, BLADE is prepared to address the data center networking requirements of the world’s second largest economy. The representative office is set up at Ark Mori Building, Akasaka, Tokyo.

BLADE is introducing to Japan its approach to “Rackonomics” for rack-level provisioning of server/compute systems, data networks and storage area networks (SANs). Working with BLADE, Japanese businesses can leverage Rackonomics to decrease the total cost of ownership of data center infrastructures, reduce IT complexity and enable massive scale-out environments.

BLADE is a market-leading supplier of 1/10G Ethernet infrastructure solutions in blade servers and “scale-out” server and storage racks. BLADE has more than four million ports installed, connecting more than 800,000 HP, IBM and NEC server blades and delivering its products across 26 market segments, including large data center networks equipped with thousands of switches.

I published to illustrate the demand for IT infrastructure in Japan and the surrounding regions, it will be interesting to see what opportunities there are, as well as how the end user requirements/ways of doing business differ between markets. Do check it out.

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