Blade Watch

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Blade-Network-Technologies-874654.html

SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire – July 1, 2008) – BLADE Network Technologies, Inc., the industry leader in network virtualization and high-performance solutions for servers and storage, announced the first 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet network virtualization switch for IBM BladeCenter.

BLADE’s new switch provides the ability to use six 1-Gigabit copper and three 10-Gigabit SFP+ fiber uplinks concurrently — for 50 percent more bandwidth than alternative blade switch offerings. BLADE’s new switch applies the principles of “Rackonomics” to “scale out” and virtualize data center networks, driving down the total cost of ownership associated with high-performance clusters and virtualized data centers that require an affordable migration path to 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

The BLADE 1/10Gb switch features:
– Power consumption that is 33 to 50 percent lower than alternative blade
switches
– Layer 2/3 support for advanced features such as Open Shortest Path First
(OSPF) and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) built-in at no additional
cost, and
– Extensive network virtualization capabilities such as VMReadyâ„¢.
The BLADE switch is priced up to 50 percent less than alternative blade switches.

Very cool, it will be interesting to see what new solutions and possibilities these switches bring to the blade platform, any innovation, of improvement in functionality has to be a good thing for the industry and the end user community. I’ll need to check it out.

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