Company:BLADE Network Technologies
| Industry | Network hardware |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California , United States |
Key people | Vikram Mehta, Vice President, System Networking, IBM Systems and Technology Group |
| Parent | Lenovo |
BLADE Network Technologies, based in Santa Clara, California, was a supplier of Ethernet network switches for blade servers and server and storage data center racks.[1] BLADE became part of IBM System Networking in 2010. Later sold to Lenovo as part of purchase of IBM x86 server division [2]
History
On February 13, 2006, Garnett & Helfrich Capital[3] established BLADE Network Technologies, Inc., as a privately held company from a spin-out of Nortel's Blade Server Switch Unit, focused on networking for the blade server market.[4][5] Vikram Mehta was president and CEO.[6]
In 2008, the company introduced its RackSwitch[7] line of top-of-rack 1-10 Gigabit Ethernet data center switches. IBM acquired BLADE in October 2010.[8] Lenovo acquired IBM's server business, including BLADE in 2014.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.hoovers.com/Blade-Network-Technologies,-Inc./--HD__jrkhsrkrs,src__dbi--/free-co-dnb_factsheet.xhtml
- ↑ "Lenovo Enters Datacenters with $2.3 Billion IBM X86 Server Deal". 23 January 2014. http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/01/23/lenovo-enters-datacenters-2-3-billion-ibm-x86-server-deal/.
- ↑ "Garnett & Helfrich Capital — Portfolio Companies". http://www.garnetthelfrich.com/pages/portfolio.html.
- ↑ Jennifer Mears (February 13, 2006). "Nortel spins off blade server switch business". Network World. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110615014516/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/021306-nortel-server-blade.html. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
- ↑ "Garnett & Helfrich Creates New Company from Nortel Blade Server Switch Unit". Press release. February 13, 2006. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100612003407/http://bladenetwork.net/?pageid=600. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
- ↑ "Vikram Mehta: Blade Network Technologies". Corporate biography page. Garnett & Helfrich Capital. http://www.garnetthelfrich.com/pages/portfolio_mehta_bio.html. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
- ↑ Jim Duffy (April 23, 2008). "Blade Takes Virtualization to Data-Center Rack". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C400693880002574340063E75C.html. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
- ↑ "IBM to Acquire BLADE Network Technologies". press release (IBM). September 27, 2010. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32525.wss. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
- ↑ "Lenovo Completes Initial Closing for Acquisition of IBM's x86 Server Business". press release (IBM). October 1, 2014. https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/44997.wss.
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