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Governing Members
Governing members participate in the governing committees of Blade.org.
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APC
In February 2007, APC and MGE UPS Systems combined to form a $3 billion (€2.4 billion) Critical Power & Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. Together, APC and MGE offer the industry's most comprehensive product and solution range for critical IT and process applications in industrial, enterprise, small and medium business and home environments. APC and MGE solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units, racks, and design and management software, including APC's InfraStruXure® architecture, the industry's most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. Backed by the industry's broadest service organization and an industry leading R&D investment, the combined company's 12,000 employees help customers confront today's unprecedented power, cooling and management challenges. Schneider Electric, with 112,000 employees and operations in 190 countries, had 2006 annual sales of $18 billion (€13.7 billion). For more information on APC and MGE, please visit www.apc.com,. |
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Blade Network Technologies
BLADE Network Technologies is the market-leading supplier of Gigabit and 10G Ethernet, IP, and Application Switches for blade server systems globally. BLADE is the first vendor to focus exclusively on serving the network infrastructure needs of the rapidly growing blade server market. The company's end-users include Fortune 500 companies across 26 different industry segments. As the number-one supplier of network switches for blade servers, BLADE boasts an installed base of more than 133,000 blade switches (representing approximately 3 million switch ports) around the world. In 2006, BLADE was established as a fully independent company when it purchased certain assets of Nortel's Blade Server Switch Business Unit. For more information, visit BLADE at www.bladenetwork.net.
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Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) provides the industry's leading platforms, solutions, and services for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. The company has pioneered the Storage Area Network (SAN) market with its comprehensive family of SAN infrastructure solutions. In addition, Brocade leads the industry with innovative File Area Network (FAN) solutions that provide the foundation for efficient file management. To ensure the most complete solution, Brocade also delivers a wide range of unique services offerings. As a result, Brocade helps organizations of all sizes increase efficiency, reduce costs, and maximize the value of their data assets. (www.brocade.com) |
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IBM
IBM is aligned around a single, focused business model: innovation. IBM takes its breadth and depth of insight on issues, processes and operations across a variety of industries, and invents and applies technology to help solve its clients' most intractable business and competitive problems. Although we remain committed, as ever, to lead the development of state-of-the-art technologies, and the products and service offerings built around them, we measure ourselves today by how well we help clients solve their biggest and most pressing problems.
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Intel Corporation
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
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Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today’s data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product, and partner firsts that simplify data management. Information about Network Appliance™ solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com. |
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NetXen, Inc.
NetXen stands at the forefront of a major shift in technology in the enterprise datacenter. Blade servers, server consolidation, and the convergence of network fabrics at 10 Gigabit speeds are driving an exponential increase in both data volumes and complexity. Against this backdrop of escalating network processing demands, IT managers must also address the challenge of system power consumption and cooling, and integrating more flexibility into their datacenters. NetXen offers a unique solution called the Intelligent NIC® designed specifically to address these needs.
NetXen Intelligent NICs are the industry's first programmable, multi-protocol networking solution designed for volume 10GbE markets. The Intelligent NIC silicon and board-level products are ideally suited for enterprises seeking cost-effective, high-performance solutions that alleviate critical IT infrastructure problems while scaling datacenter performance. The patented NetXen chip architecture delivers advanced capabilities for the next generation of server networking, substantially improving datacenter performance and agility.
NetXen, Inc. is a privately held company that manufactures intelligent 10-Gigabit Ethernet networking chips that advance enterprise datacenter performance and agility. Founded in February 2002 by chip design veteran Govind Kizhepat, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with an office in Pune, India. NetXen’s protocol- and OS-agnostic Intelligent NICs are designed for volume 10-Gigabit deployments and are targeted at server, storage, security and networking systems. Contact NetXen at +1 408-330-0010, sales@netxen.com or www.netxen.com. Click here for more information. |
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VMware, Inc.
VMware, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC), is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. The world's largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands. VMware is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.vmware.com or call 650-475-5000.
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Sponsoring Members
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AMD
AMD (NYSE: AMD) is the customer-centric innovation company, a processing powerhouse that offers smarter choices for its customers and makes technology more accessible to the world. AMD is focused on best meeting the needs of leading computing, wireless and consumer electronics companies to help them deliver high-performance, energy-efficient and visually realistic solutions. For more information visit www.amd.com. |
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Avnet Inc.
Avnet Technology Solutions is a distributor focused on enterprise computing solutions and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) representing $4.99 billion in annual revenue, with locations in more than 30 countries. As a global technology sales and marketing organization, Avnet Technology Solutions has sales divisions focused on specific customer segments and a select line card strategy enabling an exceptional level of attention to the needs of its customers and suppliers.
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Broadcom Corporation
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art, system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.
Broadcom is one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies, with 2006 revenue of $3.67 billion, and holds over 2,200 U.S. and 900 foreign patents, more than 6,600 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video and data. Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5900 or at www.broadcom.com. |
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Bull
As one of the leading European IT companies, Bull delivers open, flexible and secure information systems. The group helps public and private sector customers transform their information systems, applying its know-how and expertise in three main areas:
- Capitalizing on its extensive mainframe experience, Bull designs and produces robust, innovative and open servers, based on industry-standard technologies;
- Building on its alliances with leading ISVs and long standing involvement with Open Source, Bull develops and implements flexible and interoperable application infrastructures which give business processes the freedom to evolve;
- Bringing together recognized expertise in end-to-end IT security, Bull secures data and exchanges that are so critical in preserving customers' business integrity.
Bull has a particularly strong presence in the public, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing and defense sectors. Its distribution network and business partners cover more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information visit: http://www.bull.com |
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Devon IT
Devon IT is an information technology company that focuses on offering desktop devices, alternative desktop computing methods, and ultra-secure remote access solutions that provide enterprise customers with greater security, enhanced manageability, improved reliability, and lower costs. Devon IT serves organizations of all sizes, including many of the world's largest financial, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail companies, as well as various school systems and universities. Solutions from Devon IT are used by more than 20 Fortune 50 companies with largest deployments securely accessing more than 3,000 applications. Devon IT develops products which support IBM's Hosted Client Infrastructure and Blade Computing ecosystem and is a founding member of Blade.org. More information is available at www.devonit.com.
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Eaton Corporation
Flexible, adaptive power and enclosure solutions for IT, telecom and networking applications
Eaton is a diversified industrial manufacturer with 60,000 employees, selling $12.4 billion in aircraft, automotive and electrical systems in 125 countries. Eaton’s electrical business has a driving focus on data center solutions, from wiring closets to large data centers. Through R&D teams, industry specialists and sales channels dedicated to IT applications, Eaton manufactures, sells and supports infrastructure and power solutions for enterprise and business IT systems.
In the last year alone, Eaton introduced several pivotal technologies that provide much-needed relief for high-density computing environments. Topping the list are: PowerChain Management™ technologies to transform any power system into an easily managed strategic asset; rugged, attractive Powerware® enclosure solutions to house and protect IT equipment; and the revolutionary Powerware BladeUPS™, which is redefining the economics of power in blade server environments. |
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Emulex Corporation
Emulex Corporation creates enterprise-class products that intelligently connect storage, servers and networks. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, intelligent storage platforms and embedded storage products, including switches, bridges, routers and I/O controllers, to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX) and corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com. |
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HCL America Inc
In America, HCL leverages its decades of global consulting and IT services expertise to create long lasting relationships with its diverse group of Fortune 1000 customers. Whether your company does business in Aerospace, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Insurance, Life Sciences, Retail, or Telecommunications, HCL has an elite team of consultants, engineers, developers, and project managers to see you through the entire life cycle of your project.
HCL's areas of specialization within these vertical industries include competencies and proven application services success with customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), IT Infrastructure, and Business Process Outsourcing. We have centers of execllence for Oracle, PeoplesSoft, Siebel, and SAP applications as well as deep knowledge and experience with a number of technology services including Digital Signal Processing, Embedded Systems, Engineering Services, Enterprise Tools, Middleware, Product Data Management, Security, Storage Networking,Systems Software,Verification & Validation, Voice over IP, Wireless Technology.
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QLogic Corporation
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs, iSCSI routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications. The company is also a leading supplier of server networking products including InfiniBand host channel adapters that accelerate cluster performance. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index. For more information go to www.qlogic.com. |
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ServerEngines LLC
ServerEngines LLC is a visionary supplier of silicon building blocks optimized for next generation enterprise computing. ServerEngines was formed in early 2004 and is based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information, visit www.serverengines.com. |
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VirtenSys, Ltd.
VirtenSys, Ltd. is a leading supplier of PCIe IO virtualization silicon solutions. VirtenSys was incorporated in December 2005 and is led by a team of semiconductor and system veterans. VirtenSys is privately held with initial funding from Scottish Equity Partners, Celtic House Venture Partners and GIMV. Its headquarters and engineering operations are in Manchester, UK with sales and marketing offices in Silicon Valley. For further information, visit the VirtenSys web site at www.virtensys.com.
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General-Founding Members
General-Founding members are those general members who are also founding members of Blade.org.
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ClearSpeed
ClearSpeed Technology is a specialist semiconductor company focused on delivering double precision high performance coprocessors and boards to be used alongside general purpose processors in the world's most compute-intensive applications. ClearSpeed's advanced multithreaded array processing technology provides the ability to significantly accelerate data-intensive applications at extremely low power. Products include chips, boards, software tools, applications and support. ClearSpeed has offices in San Jose, California and Bristol, UK and has 84 patents granted and pending. For more information on ClearSpeed, visit www.clearspeed.com. |
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Fulcrum Microsystems
Fulcrum Microsystems Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company focused on developing interconnect switch chips for
next-generation board and system designs. The company’s devices change the paradigm for interconnect, offering low
latency, fine-grained flow control, and high throughput which combine to simplify board design and to build in more
flexibility and higher performance. More information can be found at www.fulcrummicro.com. |
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NetEffect
NetEffect is a privately held network connectivity solutions company providing next generation, multi-gigabit Ethernet products. These products fully implement the iWARP extensions to the Ethernet standard as ratified by the IETF. iWARP enables Ethernet scalability to deliver high throughput for networking, fast access for storage, and low latency for clustering. NetEffect solutions can concurrently support legacy Ethernet infrastructures and the new generation of storage and clustering applications, at 10Gbps speeds. Visit www.neteffect.com for more information. |
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Teak Technologies
Teak Technologies' pioneering 10-Gb Congestion-Free Ethernet (CFE) switching solutions unlock the promise of loss-free Ethernet thereby transforming a data center network into a Congestion-Free Zone. The company's switching solutions simplify networks that interconnect compute and storage end-points in mid-to-large, heterogeneous IT environments consisting of the world's leading blade server platforms, rack servers, distributed storage clusters, and IT processes. Teak's expanding portfolio of 10-Gb CFE and 1-Gb CFE switching solutions is at various stages of trial with Tier-1 OEMs, financial institutions, research universities, telecommunication carriers, and IPTV/cable service providers. More information about Teak Technologies is available at www.teaktechnologies.com.
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Zeus Technology
With over ten years industry experience, Zeus Technology develops application traffic management software, dramatically improving network and web-enabled applications making them run faster, more reliably, more securely and making them easier to manage. The Zeus solutions enable organizations to intelligently manage their applications, streamline operations and provide a seamless end-user experience.
As the only pure software traffic management solution, the Zeus products are flexible whatever your deployment environment; a purpose-built Zeus appliance, standard servers, blades, or even virtualized environments. |
General Members
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3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.
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Anders & Rodewyk
Anders & Rodewyk supports medium-sized enterprises and public institutions with holistic IT-solutions from concept to implementation. Our team members are certified in multiple IT disciplines with extensive expertise in consulting in a vendor neutral manner. |
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Arastra, Inc.
Arastra, based in Menlo Park, California, was founded in 2004 to design, develop and deliver a new class of integrated hardware and software network solutions that address the scalability, performance and reliability requirements of large scale data centers. For more information, please visit www.arastra.com or contact Arastra at info@arastra.com or 650-462-5000.
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Aristos Logic Corp.
Aristos Logic is the leading supplier of RAID building blocks to the data storage industry. The company pioneered multi-protocol RAID Storage Processor (RSPTM) technology and has delivered software and silicon solutions based on the RSP technology. The scalability of Aristos Logic’s products enable customers to leverage their designs across multiple product families ranging from cost effective internal RAID storage to high performance enterprise class storage systems targeted for the data center. Aristos Logic’s products have been deployed by industry-leading storage OEMs worldwide in high-density applications that require a compact footprint along with data protection and reliability. The Company is backed by a number of distinguished strategic investors as well as leading venture firms such as J. P. Morgan Partners (now Panorama Capital), Texas Pacific Group, Woodside Fund and Quicksilver Ventures. For further information, please visit our Web site at www.aristoslogic.com.
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Astute Networks
Astute Networks is the leading provider of bladed storage solutions optimized for the most demanding applications on the edge of the network. Whether you are deploying applications such as Telco's AAA, IPTV/VoD, Military C4I, or video surveillance, our focus is to provide you the most reliable storage platform with the highest performance, greatest rack densities, and power efficiencies--while being easy to deploy and maintain. Our solutions enable you to achieve lower lifecycle costs, faster time to market, and more competitiveness for you and your company. We build-in the features needed to provide you edge storage solutions so you can focus on your business - not on your storage. Astute Networks is located in San Diego, CA and is backed by venture capital firms including Tallwood Venture Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, Scale Venture Partners, KeyNote Ventures, and U.S. Venture Partners. Additional information is available at www.astutenetworks.com.
Astute Networks - Edge Storage made Simple™
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Celestica
Celestica is a world leader in the delivery of electronics manufacturing services (EMS). Celestica operates a global manufacturing network with operations in Asia, Europe and the Americas, providing a broad range of integrated services and solutions to leading OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). For further information on Celestica, visit its website at www.celestica.com.
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Chelsio Communications
Chelsio Communications is the leading provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards-compliant Unified Wire solutions for data centers. Chelsio's adapters enable the convergence of storage, clustering and networking applications onto a single high-performance unified Ethernet fabric. Chelsio's technology is being used in a wide range of applications, including Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), High Performance Computing, Video Editing, and Enterprise Servers. For more information, visit the company at www.chelsio.com. |
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Citrix Systems
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 180,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2005 was $909M.
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ClearCube Technology
ClearCube is the market leader in centralized computing solutions that integrate blades, access devices and client management software to give organizations full control over end user computing. Organizations deploying ClearCube gain 99.9% uptime, hardened security, and extra workspace while improving productivity by over 40%. For more information, visit www.clearcube.com. |
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Cloudshield Technologies, Inc.
CloudShield is a provider of multi-gigabit, multi-function, programmable, deep packet inspection platforms targeted at large network operators. The company's unique capabilities allow content inspection, service control and security applications to perform at true gigabit speeds on even small packet sizes, and enable entirely new classes of applications and revenue generating services. Through its application partners, CloudShield has helped deliver solutions to carriers in North America, Europe and Asia as well as several important federal government customers. More information about CloudShield can be found at http://www.cloudshield.com/. |
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Continuous Computing
Continuous Computing provides integrated systems and services that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy Next Generation Networks (NGN). Over 150 customers benefit from the company's unique blend of customized professional services, Trillium Protocol Software, and Advanced TCA and Compact PCI hardware. Continuous Computing helps customers reduce lifecycle casts, optimize data delivery, and accelerate deployments of NGN, 3G Wireless, and IP Multimedia Systems (IMS) infrastructure. |
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Double-Take Software
Double-Take® Software provides the world’s most relied upon solution for accessible and affordable data protection for Microsoft® Windows® applications. The Double-Take product is the standard in data replication, enabling customers to protect business-critical data that resides throughout their enterprise. With its partner programs and professional services, Double-Take delivers unparalleled data protection, centralized back-up, high availability, and recoverability. It's the solution of choice for thousands of customers, from SMEs to the Fortune 500 in the banking, finance, legal services, retail, manufacturing, government, education and healthcare markets. Double-Take is an integral part of their disaster recovery, business continuity and overall storage strategies. For more information, please visit www.doubletake.com.
The company recently expanded its global presence and technical support through the acquisition of its subsidiary, Sunbelt System Software. |
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Ericom Software, Inc
Ericom Software is a leading provider of Enterprise-Wide Application Access Solutions. Since 1993, Ericom has been helping users access enterprise mission-critical applications running on a broad range of Microsoft® Windows® Terminal Servers, legacy hosts and other systems, and providing concrete business value by helping organizations realize the benefits of their IT investments. With offices in the United States, United Kingdom, EMEA, India and China, Ericom also has an extensive network of distributors and partners throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Far East. Our expanding customer base is more than 30 thousand strong, with over 6 million installations. For more information about Ericom and its products, please visit: http://www.ericom.com.
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GoAhead® Software, Inc.
GoAhead® Software provides high availability (HA) and management software for equipment manufacturers responsible for ensuring availability of mission-critical systems and applications. GoAhead products and services help telecom, defense and aerospace equipment manufacturers achieve faster time to market and lower development costs. With more than 15,000 deployments worldwide, GoAhead SelfReliant® is the only proven, standards-based HA solution on the market. GoAhead delivers the software and the expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects such as wireless base station controllers, Node Bs, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers to name a few. Every day, industry leaders such as Motorola, Alcatel, Italtel, Lockheed Martin and Honeywell entrust their HA needs to GoAhead. GoAhead is a privately held company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information on GoAhead, visit www.goahead.com or call 425-453-1900. |
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H3C
H3C is a leading global supplier of IP-based products and solutions. H3C's offerings include routers, Ethernet switches, wireless LAN, security, Voice/Video over IP products, SOHO products and network management systems. H3C is also a leading vendor of IP SAN(Storage Area Network)as well as IP video surveillance systems.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, with principal operations in Hangzhou, China, H3C employs 4,800 people worldwide. H3C creates greater value for customers by supplying high quality, technologically advanced products. To maintain a level of innovation and technical excellence, the Company operates advanced R&D facilities in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shenzhen in China and Bangalore in India; invests more than 15 percent of revenues back into R&D every year and has about half of the workforce engaged in research and development. |
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Kell Systems
Kell Systems Portable Server Environments (PSEs) enable deployment of servers and network hardware directly in the office workspace, doing away with the need for small computer rooms. They combine extreme noise reduction and high thermal capacity with exceptional reliability and a truly all-inclusive, plug-and-play specification. A host of unique, installer-friendly features ensure quick and easy systems deployment and the PSE’s office-quality appearance blends seamlessly into any office environment.
In February 2008 Kell Systems will release its first dedicated blade system enclosure, designed specifically for the IBM BladeCenter S.
Kell Systems' headquarters and manufacturing are in the UK, with overseas offices in the USA, Germany and Spain. Kell Systems is the only company in the world of its kind, and Kell PSEs are exported throughout the world to locations from Brisbane to Bratislava and from Hawaii to Hong Kong. Kell clients include Adobe, Boeing, BT, Disney, EDS, Google, Microsoft, NASA, NATO, Shell, Siemens and Verizon. |
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Kingston Technology Company, Inc.
Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston designs, manufactures and distributes memory products for desktops, laptops, servers, printers, and Flash memory products for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. Kingston has manufacturing facilities in California, Malaysia, Taiwan, China and sales offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Russia, Australia, Taiwan, China, and Latin America. For more information, please call (800) 337-8410 or visit www.kingston.com.
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, high-performance interconnect products that facilitate data transmission between servers and storage systems through communications infrastructure equipment. Our products are an integral part of a total solution focused on computing, storage and communication applications used in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing and embedded systems. Based on InfiniBand technology, our field-proven adapter and switch integrated circuits deliver industry-leading performance and capabilities, and serve as the building blocks for creating reliable and scalable interconnect solutions. In addition to supporting InfiniBand, Mellanox's next generation of products also support the industry-standard Ethernet interconnect specification.
Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and Yokneam, Israel. For more information on Mellanox’s solutions, please visit www.mellanox.com.
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Methode Electronics, Inc.
Methode Electronics is the technology leader for Copper Transceivers and subsystems that enable high-speed communications for the networking and storage industries. Methodes portfolio of Copper Transceivers are compliant with the IEEE 802.3 standards which allows for bi-directional communication over twisted-pair copper cables. Pluggable Copper transceivers aid the industry in their quest for scalability and flexibility while providing complete solutions to the end user. Methode Electronics is a global manufacturer of component and subsystem devices with manufacturing, design and testing facilities in the United States, China, Mexico, Malta, United Kingdom, Czech Republic and Singapore. |
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Myricom Inc
Founded in 1994, Myricom, Inc., created Myrinet, the High-Performance Computing (HPC) interconnect technology used in thousands of computing clusters in more than 50 countries, and in far more systems on the TOP500 Supercomputer list than any other low-latency interconnect. With its new Myri-10G solutions, Myricom achieves a convergence at 10-Gigabit data rates between its low-latency Myrinet technology and mainstream Ethernet. Myri-10G bridges the gap between the rigorous demands of traditional HPC and the growing need for affordable computing speed in enterprise data centers. Myricom solutions are sold direct and through channels. Myri-10G clusters are supplied by OEM computer companies including IBM, HP, Dell, and Sun, and by leading cluster integrators worldwide. Privately held and based in Arcadia, California, Myricom achieved and has sustained profitability since 1995 with eleven consecutive profitable years through 2005. |
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Nallatech
Nallatech is a leader in high performance FPGA-based computing, helping the HPC community address the challenges of delivering improved price/performance, increased performance-density and reduced power consumption of clusters. Nallatech addresses these needs, enabling applications implemented on clusters to be accelerated using FPGA compute technology. Built with the aim of simplifying the design and creation of scalable clusters, Nallatech provides the most flexible FPGA-based computing solution available on the market today. Products within the series are available as integrated solutions for IBM® BladeCenter® and eServer™ systems, as well as expansion cards suitable for most cluster systems. |
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Narus, Inc.
Narus software solutions provide the real-time traffic insight essential to profitably manage, secure and deliver Services over IP. Today, large IP-based networks are transforming the traditional circuit-switched world of telecommunications into a dynamic, ever-changing world of IP-based services such as VoIP, IPTV and others. In order to secure, monitor, bill and provide excellent quality of service for these IP-based offerings, service providers must simultaneously capture, normalize and correlate IP traffic across all layers of the network. Only NarusInsight is capable of providing companies with the means to capture, normalize and correlate IP traffic at the speed required for carrier-class networks. With its patented technology and processes, Narus helps customers like AT&T, Korea Telecom, KDDI, Telecom Egypt, Saudi Telecom, France Telecom and T-Mobile in areas of network security, traffic classification and monitoring. For more information, please visit www.narus.com.
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Neterion, Inc.
Founded in 2001, Neterion Inc. has locations in Cupertino, California and Ottawa, Canada. Neterion delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware & software solutions that solve customers' high-end networking problems. The Xframe® line of products is based on Neterion-developed technologies that deliver new levels of performance, availability and reliability in the datacenter. Xframe, Xframe II and Xframe E include full IPv4 and IPv6 support, and comprehensive stateless offloads that preserve the integrity of current TCP/IP implementations without "breaking the stack." Xframe drivers are available for all major Operating Systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, HP-UX, IBM's AIX, Sun's Solaris and SGI's Irix. |
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Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical information. Our next-generation technologies, for both service providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.
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OpenService, Inc.
OpenService improves the reliability and security of the world's largest enterprise networks. The company specializes in management software that scales to high volume, global implementations in use by hundreds of the world's best-known enterprises today. OpenService has over a decade of experience in managing the most demanding network and security environments. Enterprise customers using OpenService's software solutions include Argonne National Labs, Citigroup, Connexion by Boeing, Visa, Verizon and many others in the Fortune 500. For more information, call 508-597-5300 or visit http://www.openservice.com. |
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Phyworks, Ltd.
Phyworks delivers leading edge products that address present day communications problems including dispersion in multimode and single mode fiber, copper cabling and backplanes.
Our products target the Physical Layer of both Telecommunications and Data Communications markets, including Local Area Networks, Storage Area Networks and Wide Area Networks. Our silicon solutions address key issues that limit and compromise today's module and system design and manufacture: Cost, Size, Power, Performance.
Using low cost, highly integrated single chip CMOS solutions, Phyworks innovative products include 10Gbps Re-Timers and SerDes enabled with Electronic Dispersion Compensation and high performance Laser Drivers and Receivers.
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Sirius Computer Solutions
Sirius is a national IBM Premier Business Partner dedicated to helping customers implement Advanced Infrastructure Solutions that provide them with a competitive advantage and a positive return on investment. Backed by 25 years of IT experience, Sirius is a nationally-recognized Solution Provider with a certified team of sales and technical professionals who have the skills, product knowledge, and commitment to help customers develop and implement the right solution to solve their business needs. |
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Symantec
Symantec is a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. The company helps customers protect their infrastructure, information and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance and performance. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in 40 countries. More information is available at www.symantec.com.
Altiris, now part of Symantec, delivers software that helps customers manage and secure technology through automation, reducing the cost and complexity of IT ownership. More information is available at www.altiris.com. |
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SYNNEX Corporation
Founded in 1980, SYNNEX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a global IT supply chain services company offering a comprehensive range of services to original equipment manufacturers, software publishers and reseller customers worldwide. SYNNEX offers product distribution, related logistics services, business process outsourcing and contract assembly and works with the leading industry suppliers of IT systems, peripherals, system components, software and networking equipment. Additional information about SYNNEX may be found online at www.synnex.com. |
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Tehuti Networks
Tehuti Networks sells a family of single-chip and board-level solutions that provide true 10 Gigabit Ethernet line rate and low power for networking end point applications. These inexpensive, high performance solutions support all major operating system as well as both hardware and software virtualization schemes. Tehuti Networks has offices in Austin, Texas; Herzliya, Israel; and Taipei City, Taiwan. |
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Teradici Corporation
Teradici Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company developing innovative technology for next-generation computer form factors. Through a combination of unique algorithms and high-performance silicon processing, the company is focused on enabling a new approach for how personal computers are deployed and managed. Teradici is headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. More information is available at www.teradici.com. |
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Virtual Iron
Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class server virtualization software solutions that are easy to use and easy to afford. The software enables organizations or all sizes to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of managing and operating their data centers. Virtual Iron includes advanced capabilities that leverage industry standards, open source economics and built-in hardware-assisted acceleration. Users leverage Virtual Iron to suppport a broad range of data center initiatives including production server consolidation; development and test optimization; patch management; cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery; dynamic capacity management; and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The software is available exclusively through Virtual Iron's Channel One partner network. Evaluation copies are available for free download at http://www.virtualiron.com/free. For more information, visit http://www.virtualiron.com or email info@virtualiron.com. |
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Voltaire Inc.
Voltaire is the worldwide leader in grid backbone solutions for networked computing in the next generation data center. Voltaire's integrated family of switching hardware and network virtualization software delivers the high-performance, intelligent backbone for grid computing architectures. Leveraging the InfiniBand standard, Voltaire solutions offer improved performance, utilization and scalability across compute clusters, storage and IP networks. Voltaire solutions are available from major systems vendors and integrators. More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247. |
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W. L. Gore & Associates
W. L. Gore & Associates has made its name by creating innovative, technology-driven products. The company's 50-year history of innovation extends from surgical implants to the first waterproof, breathable fabric and from guitar strings to electronic cables used in space exploration. Today the company provides thousands of products that have set performance standards in diverse consumer, industrial, electronic, medical and surgical markets. And behind every product, and every application, you'll find a steadfast commitment to performance and reliability.
Gore's unique, team-based structure is perhaps as well-known as its innovative products. The company's emphasis on direct communication, minimal barriers to creativity and sound decision making has proved to be good business. By design, Gore's work environment encourages inventive thinking—the kind of inventive thinking that has generated thousands of valuable products and solutions. And because it encourages individual initiative and innovation, the company's corporate culture fosters both associate satisfaction and product success. A privately held enterprise whose annual sales approach $2 billion, Gore today claims a manufacturing or sales presence
in more than 80 countries and employs more than 7,000 associates around the world. |
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Wyse Technology Inc.
Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing. Wyse and its partners deliver the hardware, infrastructure software, and services that comprise thin computing, allowing people to access the information they need using the applications they want, but with better security, manageability, and at a much lower total cost of ownership than a PC. Thin computing allows CIOs and senior IT professionals to reduce costs, manage risk, and deliver access to information. Wyse partners closely with industry leaders Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, and others to achieve this objective. Wyse is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices worldwide.
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