Ferland, Can you first and foremost present BLADE Network Technologies to our readers?
BLADE Network technologies (BLADE), the data centre Ethernet switching company, was established as a privately held company in 2006. Today, BLADE is the industry’s number-two supplier of data centre Ethernet switches, with more than 9 million ports installed. BLADE’s 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet blade server and top-of-rack switches bring intelligence and speed to the edge of the network where it’s closer to business applications, users and innovation. BLADE products provide the superior performance, ultra-low latency and virtual machine awareness that is ideally suited to handle dynamic demands at the network edge, from private and public clouds to financial services and other HPC applications. BLADE’s lossless, low-latency, low-cost and low-power RackSwitch switches; VMready network virtualisation and BLADE Harmony switch management, connect and unify physical and virtual servers, storage and networks in the world’s largest data centres. BLADE’s Unified Fabric Architecture is a fast, vi
