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.
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"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."
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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 solutions." - Kirk Skaugen, General Manager, Intel Server Platforms Group.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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
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"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.
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"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.
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