Industry | Network hardware |
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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]
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]
Industry | Network hardware |
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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]
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]