Innovation of the Verari blade platform continues

Market Wire

SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire - September 29, 2008) - BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the industry leader in network virtualization and high-performance solutions for servers and storage, and Verari Systems, Inc., a premier developer of energy efficient data center consolidation platforms utilizing independent blade-based computing and storage solutions, announced a joint integration agreement to develop Verari’s NB1010 Series BladeSwitch, a high-performance blade network switch. The new switch incorporates BLADE’s advanced Ethernet switching technologies to deliver to users of Verari’s BladeRack 2 X-Series data center consolidation solutions all the benefits of network aggregation using blade-based platforms for data center computing without compromising on performance or energy efficiency.

Verari and BLADE developed the new enterprise-class NB1010 Series BladeSwitch to combat the growing strains on Ethernet connectivity in the data center. Server virtualization, Web 2.0 and other data-intensive applications can all take advantage of the increased bandwidth and low latency provided by the switch jointly developed by Verari, a leading provider of data center consolidation platforms, and BLADE, the blade server industry’s leading provider of Ethernet switches for more than half of Fortune 500 companies.

Improving the network connectivity options of the Verari blade servers has to be a good for competition within the industry and for the end user. The more innovation we get in the blade platform, the more custom and generic solutions we can develop to meet the business needs, whether it’s blades and VMWare or grid/cloud on blade servers. I’ll need to read up more.