About Us

Blade was formed in 2006 in Santa Clara, California, a spin-off from Nortel. The private company provides virtual, cooler and easier intelligent networking solutions for blade server environments. It is a leading provider of Gigabit and 10Gb Ethernet network infrastructure solutions, especially for high performance datacentres. Blade's lossless, low power and low cost switches add network intelligence, as well as enhancing performance and providing high availability, scalability, manageability and security. The company's blade switches, top-of-rack RackSwitch, VMready network virtualisation software and Smart Server Control software are key elements of its Unified Fabric Architecture. Blade's Rackonomics approach makes it simple for businesses to rapidly deploy and configure massive amounts of server and storage infrastructure, interconnect the various infrastructure elements, virtualise the infrastructure to maximise efficiency and use, and easily manage the infrastructure to achieve optimal total cost of ownership. With more than eight million ports in production deployment, Blade’s proven fabric products connect millions of server and storage systems at more than 9500 enterprises in more than 26 industry verticals, including 350 of the Fortune 500. Blade products have been sold in Australia since 2002 through Hewlett-Packard and IBM, and, more recently, by its own developing sales channel, including DickerData and Observatory Crest. The company's newest customers range from derivatives trading company, Tibra Capital to animator, Depth Analysis, video games developer, Plastic Wax and the Australian-based research and development centre for innovative US storage appliance designer, EvoStor. It has numerous other Australian customers, including federal government departments and market leaders in banking, financial services, media, retailing, law, food and beverage manufacturing, internet services, health insurance, and mining, resources and energy. See www.bladenetwork.net for further information. Peter Hall Vice President & General Manager - Asia Pacific Blade Network Technologies (+61) 417 733 375 Dave Humphries General Manager - Australia & New Zealand Blade Network Technologies (61+) 417 557 558