Blade.org Member Quotes

The Mission of Blade.org is to provide leadership to the blade server market, to foster a collaborative community of customers and members to expand the blade ecosystem, and to accelerate the growth and adoption of technologies and solutions in the market.

	"The continuing growth and momentum of Blade.org is excellent news for all blade customers," said Jens Rodewyk CEO, Anders & Rodewyk. "Customers will profit from even more solutions, more freedom of choice and more support deploying their blade infrastructure. Anders & Rodewyk is proud to contribute to that process and to become a member of Blade.org."
	"We share the vision to make the blade server truly a 'data center in a box.' Aristos Logic is helping customers realize this vision by delivering powerful silicon and software products based on our breakthrough RAID Storage Processor (RSP™) technology. Using our RAID technology building blocks, our customers have created best-in-class blade server storage that provides full redundancy, data protection and high performance in a compact, energy efficient footprint. By working closely with Blade.org, Aristos Logic is able to keep pace with the needs of the fast growing blade server market." - Anil Gupta, President & CEO, Aristos Logic Corporation
	"AudioCodes is looking forward to working with the Blade.org community in building advanced SIP-based telecommunications applications on the BladeCenter platform" said Alan Percy, Director of Business Development "AudioCodes' participation in Blade.org brings industry leading media gateway and media processing technologies to the BladeCenter form factor simplifying installation complexity and reducing maintenance costs."
	"Blade Network Technologies' (BLADE) single-minded focus on blade networking solutions and customer satisfaction has made us the most trusted supplier of networking infrastructure for IBM BladeCenter. By active participation in the Blade.Org, we believe we can offer our customers more integrated solutions to meet their business objectives. BLADE is looking forward to extending the market for blade systems into new, innovative areas such as VoIP, IPTV, gaming and security." - Vikram Mehta, President and CEO, Blade Network Technologies.
	"Broadcom is very pleased to be a sponsoring member of Blade.org. As a global leader in communications semiconductors, we are committed to continuing to drive pervasive Ethernet technology in the Enterprise. We look forward to working closely with the other Blade.org members to create highly integrated, innovative and standardized solutions for blade technology that meet and exceed our customers' increasing demand for more performance, reliability and ease of deployment." - Greg Young, Vice President and General Manager, High-Speed Controller Line of Business, Broadcom.
	"Brocade is committed to collaboration with industry partners through Blade.org to accelerate the development and delivery of new bladed computing technology solutions that address key IT demands for solutions that increase data center efficiencies and simplify the management of their business operations. We believe that Blade.org will play a key role in driving increased adoption of the blade server platform in the marketplace and members will benefit from building business relationships that will secure their opportunity to participate in the emerging market for solutions based on bladed computing architectures." - Tom Buiocchi, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Support, Brocade.
	"As the leading 10 Gigabit Ethernet Unified Wire solution provider, Chelsio is excited to work with Blade.org members to enable the fabric convergence for the next generation HPC & Enterprise data centers." - Kianoosh Naghshineh – President and CEO, Chelsio Communications.
	"More enterprises are turning to blades to solve their complex business needs, needs that stretch from the data center out to the desktop and beyond. We are excited to be a member of Blade.org and we are looking forward to working with its members in creating awareness and solutions that benefit the enterprise and help extend the benefits of blades beyond the data center." Carl Boisvert, CEO, ClearCube Technology.
	"We are firm in our belief that blade computing is a cost-effective way for companies to realize the benefits of a server-based architecture andwe are committed to expanding the market potential for hosted client technology. The formation of blade.org will help expand the adoption of this technology. As a founding member of this organization we see a tremendous opportunity for blade.org to accelerate this market." - Joe Makoid, President, Devon IT.
	"Emulex is teaming with IBM through its Blade.org program to help drive seamless integration of server blades into the enterprise. With the increasing number of server blades connecting to storage area networks, Emulex Fibre Channel host bus adapters are an integral part of the high performance solution, ensuring robust and field-proven SAN connectivity. Many IBM customers have already standardized on Emulex HBAs throughout their data center environments and this announcement ensures a simplified migration path to fully interoperable, next generation solutions." - Mike Smith, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Emulex Corp.
	"Ericom is proud to join the Blade.org community of industry leaders. Blade.org is an important alliance that further accelerates collaboration and development of Blade technologies. We look forward to this partnership and working with Blade.org members." - Eran Heyman, Ericom Founder and CEO.
	"As a leading design house and IT infrastructure management service provider, HCL is excited about blade servers as a key technology platform for product innovation and as a solution for IT infrastructure simplification and consolidation. HCL welcomes the Blade.org initiative and is pleased to be a sponsor member. We look forward to active participation in Blade.org to further this technology in conjunction with other members, many of whom are also our key customers." - Divakar Maddipatla, Corporate Vice President, HCL.
	"What started only months ago as a group of companies interested in driving innovation on the BladeCenter-based platform, has become a fully functioning organization, supporting openness and collaborative innovation around new products and systems. The Blade.org community is already innovating and delivering new BladeCenter solutions, expanding customer confidence in this still rapidly growing market." - Doug Balog, Chairman, Blade.org.
	"Intel is working together with IBM to expand the blade ecosystem. New market segments and broader solutions are already being borne out of the Blade.org community, and Intel will continue to work closely with the consortium to create new blade solution." - Kirk Skaugen, General Manager, Intel Server Platforms Group.
	"Myricom, Inc., congratulates IBM on the introduction of BladeCenter H. Myricom has been supplying BladeCenter versions of our low-latency, Myrinet-2000, networking products to IBM since 2003. We are pleased to extend our commitment by supplying BladeCenter-H versions of our latest Myri-10G products. These standards-based Myri-10G adapters and switches, which support both 10-Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Myrinet protocols, fully leverage the performance advances in BladeCenter H, and offer substantial gains in performance and interoperability." - Charles L. Seitz, Ph.D., CEO of Myricom, Inc.
	"As a leader in the deployment of simplified data management solutions for mission critical applications, NetApp knows the value solutions built on blade architectures deliver to data centers worldwide. NetApp is excited to be a founding member of Blade.org and looks forward to collaborating with other blade.org members on the development of a broad portfolio of simple, open and scalable solutions based on the blade server architecture." - Patrick Rogers, Vice President, Products and Partners, Network Appliance.
	"NetEffect is proud to be one of the founding members of blade.org. NetEffect is committed to the blade server platform and has developed a family of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters – designed to meet customer demands for very high performance and functionality with the lowest power consumption – particularly well suited for blade environments." - Rick Maule, CEO of NetEffect.
	"Neterion is very pleased to be a member of Blade.org," said Neterion's President and CEO, Dave Zabrowski. "Blades are the fastest growing segment of the server market, there is no question that an organization focusing on industry standards for server blade architectures will provide significant momentum for its adoption. At Neterion, our goal is to work with Blade.org to ensure that IT managers in enterprise data centers can incorporate the performance and cost benefits of 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks into their server blade environments. By leveraging Hyperframe, our I/O Virtualization architecture, IT managers will be able to share and virtualize I/O devices among blades in a standard way, contributing to significantly reduce their total cost of ownership."
	"NetXen is excited to be working with IBM on BladeCenter H to enable the mass deployment of 10-Gigabit Ethernet for data-intensive environments. This program has been a collaborative development effort, and we are pleased to see it come to fruition." - Govind Kizhepat, CEO, NetXen, Inc.
	"Nortel recognizes the value of the blade server architecture in delivering cost effective enterprise solutions. We are delighted to participate as a founding member of the Blade.org. The leadership displayed by IBM, Intel and their ecosystem partners in the formation of this group, will greatly accelerate the adoption of the blade solutions and open up new markets for blades, such as Voice over IP, online gaming, security, video on demand, and IPTV. We look forward to bringing innovative and cost effective blade-based solutions to market." - Paul Woodruff, GM, Blade Switching Business, Nortel.
	"Enterprise IT departments are driving towards lowering the cost of ownership, improving manageability and reducing deployment. Blade.org will raise the awareness of how the blade platform makes these goals achievable. When combined with our low cost of ownership security threat management and compliance analysis software in the IBM security in a box solution, the complexity of securing the world's most demanding enterprise security networks will be significantly reduced." - Ted Joseph, CEO, OpenService, Inc.
	"We have been collaborating with IBM on bladed SAN solutions since the inception of BladeCenter. Since then, QLogic has become the leader in blade server switches for this rapidly growing server architecture. By joining Blade.org, we will be able to collaborate more effectively with IBM - a trailblazer in blade solutions - and the other members of the IBM BladeCenter ecosystem." - Frank Berry, Vice President of Marketing, QLogic Corp.
	"The Blade Center H architecture allows deeper integration and greater innovation such as ServerEngines' Enterprise I/O Controller - - BladeEngineT, and our 10 Gb Blade Fabric - - BladeXchangeT, to create an architectural revolution for enterprise computing. ServerEngines' revolutionary architecture enables IBM BladeCenter to run new classes of applications through integration of networking and storage into a single 10 Gb Fabric, lowering capital and maintenance costs while providing state-of-the-art performance." - Raju Vegesna, President & CEO, ServerEngines LLC
	"Symantec, through the collaborative efforts of Blade.org, is eager to help accelerate the deployment of blade-based solutions with our entire portfolio of leading security, data protection, and storage and server management solutions. IBM's Blade.org initiative is even more important for Symantec given our reseller relationship with IBM xSeries. For every enterprise and small business looking to leverage the profound advantages of blade solutions, Symantec can offer unique and integrated capabilities that help customers protect the integrity of their greatest assets - their information." - Mark Bregman, CTO, Symantec Corp.
	"Agile data centers of tomorrow will consist of policy-driven infrastructure platforms that virtualize building blocks such as compute, storage, security, and networking to perform as a unified whole. At Teak Technologies, our systems-level interconnect solutions make networking and all networked end-points more productive. As its founding member, we are excited that Blade.org is attracting some of the strongest players in core building block industries to foster collaboration in building a thriving Blade-centric ecosystem." - Sanjay Dua, Chief Marketing Officer, Teak Technologies.
	"Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) is excited to be part of Blade ecosystem and a member of Blade.org. We truly believe the value proposition of blade servers and the spirit of open standard to bring the best solutions to customers. With over twenty years experience of design, test and manufacturing for the world tier one computing customers, we are committed to extend our expertise to computing, storage and communication segments of the blade industry." - C.Y. Wei, President, USI.
	"IBM and VMware have a long-standing, successful relationship that has been strengthened through our technology collaboration on blades. The VMware 'Virtual Infrastructure for blades' solution together with IBM BladeCenter H will provide customers with automated failover, non-disruptive optimization, workload balancing and simplified manageability, resulting in significant infrastructure simplification. VMware and blades are a powerful, compelling combination for customers and our licensing offers blade customers greater purchasing and deployment flexibility." - Diane Greene, President, VMware.
	"We are excited to be working with the Blade.org community in order to accelerate the time-to-market and ultimately the pervasiveness of Voltaire's new 10 Gigabit InfiniBand solutions for the BladeCenter-H platform. Through the combination of IBM's industry leading blade technology and Voltaire's high performance InfiniBand switching solutions, our customers will be building a solid foundation for grid computing, leveraging the scale, performance and virtualization capabilities inherent in InfiniBand." - Ronnie Kenneth, Chairman and CEO, Voltaire.
	"BladeCenter is well recognized for offering operational efficiencies in high performance data centers, but the slew of competing vendors with individual agendas is a threat to this. Blade.org offers the opportunity for multiple vendors representing the application, network and edge-computing components to develop interoperability standards that will allow BladeCenter to fully realize this potential. Zeus will bring application continuity to BladeCenter, and contribute to building an open platform integrating traffic management, optimization and security into virtualized SOA environments." - Damian Reeves, CTO, Zeus Technology.

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