Blade.org, the industry group driving innovation in blade-based solutions, announced that the global venture capital community has invested over $1 billion in the last two years to fund companies developing emerging technologies and solutions to help customers simplify business computing with blade servers. To celebrate the investment milestone and its one-year Anniversary, Blade.org convened with its members and leaders of the global Venture Capital community in San Francisco to help map the future trajectory of the blade server market - the industry's fastest growing server market segment predicted to reach $11 billion in revenue by 2010 (IDC).

• Press Release: "Global Venture Capital Firms Invest More Than $1 Billion in Blade.org Members"
• Press Release: "Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Blades Video Surveillance System"
• Press Release: "OpenService, Inc and Mazu Networks Team to Provide Unified Threat Management Solution for IBM Development Labs"
• Press Release: "BLADE Network Technologies and NetXen Team Up to Equip Blade Servers with Industry's First 10 Gigabit Ethernet Solution"
• Fact Sheet: "Learn more about Blade.org"
• Analyst Report: "Blade.org: The Snowball Effect"

View the videos:

Here are five videos exploring topics of interest to Blade.org member and the industry in general:
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• "Global Venture Capital Firms Back Blade.org. Hear from Andrew Kau, General Manager of Walden Internation and Claudia Fan Munce, Vice President of IBM Venture Capital Group"
• "The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Implements a Blade.org Solution. Hear from James Horio, Director of Information Technology for the Asian Art Museum."
• "Industry Analysts Support Open Innovation and Blade.org. Hear from Charles King, President and Principal Analyst, Pund-IT."
• "Blade.org Builds Solutions for Energy Efficiency. Hear from Blade.org members APC and ClearSpeed Technology"
• "Blade.org Builds Solutions for Virtualization. Hear from Blade.org members Citrix, Emulex, QLogic, VMware and Zeus Technology"

Useful Links, More Reading:

• Blade.org - the Source for Blade Server Information (www.blade.org)
• BladeNation - a blog from Tom Bradicich, CTO of IBM
• Center for Open Innovation - an affiliate of the Institute for Management, Innovation and Organization at U.C. Berkeley
• Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technology by Henry Chesbrough
• Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape by Henry Chesbrough
• Collaborative Entrepreneurship: How Communities Of Networked Firms Use Continuous Innovation To Create Economic Wealth by Raymond E. Miles, Grant Miles, Charles C. Snow

Media Contacts

Vineeta Durani
IBM for Blade.org
1-415-545-2350
pr@blade.org

Steven Beetle
1-831-425-1581. ext. 203
ZNA for Blade.org
pr@blade.org