Industry-First Release Allows Customers to Connect IBM BladeCenter to Any SAN While Quickly Deploying Up to 128 Virtual Servers Per Chassis

Converged Networking and Storage Fabrics Ready for Evaluation in 2009 and "Single-Wire" Deployment in 2010, Says Industry Consortium

A new report announced last month found that Voltaire Ltd.'s switching technology is connecting the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers, according to the latest supercomputing "Green500 List" announced by the Green500.org. The top seven supercomputers on the list are all comprised of IBM BladeCenter servers and connected with Voltaire Grid Director(TM) InfiniBand switches, which deliver high performance coupled with low power consumption.

Network Product Guide, a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, has honored BLADE President and CEO Vikram Mehta with the information technology industry's 2008 Most Valuable Performers (MVP) recognition.

BLADE Network Technologies announced that the privately held company enjoyed a record fourth fiscal quarter during which it shipped more than 500,000 Ethernet ports to conclude its 2008 fiscal year with 54 percent shipment growth over the previous year.

NetXen, Inc. today launched a product evaluation program featuring its new line of Dual Port 10GbE and Quad Port 1GbE adapters, which provide industry-leading price/performance.

NetXen, Inc., the market leader in 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter card port shipments, today announced that it has successfully completed multi-vendor interoperability testing of Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP+) direct attach copper products.

Sometimes, when you are storing big wonking media files, you want a single, fat disk, and the rotational speed is not nearly as important as the raw, cheap capacity. The latter reason is why IBM has put a new 1 TB drive in its BladeCenter S blade server chassis for small businesses.

According to a newly published report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, the 10Gbps Ethernet Network Adapter market is benefiting from the impact of server virtualization.

VMware has renamed and expanded upon its desktop virtualization software, with features that reduce storage requirements and allow offline access to desktops.

As part of Blade.org's ongoing mission to provide information about the blade server industry, Blade.org has created a brief virtualization survey to determine blade server user's plans and experiences in implementing virtualization. Complete the anonymous servey and you will be entered to win the latest iPOD.

OpenService today announced the industry's first risk-based security metrics reporting system to help corporations monitor their IT risk trends and determine the effectiveness of their security controls.

BLADE's RackSwitch Is the Only Switch Designed to Match the Airflow of IBM iDataPlex, While Outperforming Competitors in Price/Performance, Low Latency and Power Consumption

Exhibit Shows How Fulcrum's Lossless Ethernet Can Be Used in Data Center to Support HPC, Web, Video and Storage Traffic

IBM today announced four IBM servers that will feature the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor. The new servers provide the IT efficiency needed in a new enterprise data center, with the BladeCenter LS42 using 16 percent less power than competitive blade offerings.

NetXen, Inc., the leader in mainstream 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server connectivity, today reported that it shipped more than 25 thousand 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports during the first half of 2008, driven by an expanding customer base and significant demand for its Intelligent NIC(R) silicon and board products.

Cherry Hill, N.J.-based real estate, mortgage and title insurance company Prudential Fox and Roach ripped out its 93 Hewlett-Packard Co. ProLiant servers and replaced them with IBM blade servers running VMware Inc.'s virtualization technology to reduce space requirements, cut power and cooling costs, and make data center management easier.

All-in-One 10GbE Adapters Support NIC, TOE, iSCSI and Clustering On Windows 2008 Servers For Enterprise Data Center And High Performance Computing Environments

BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE) announced it will show its industry-leading Ethernet products at Supercomputing '08 on November 15-21, in Austin, Texas. Dan Tuchler, BLADE's Vice President of Strategy and Product Management, will present "10G Ethernet -- Ready for Major Breakthrough in 2009 for HPC Environments" on Wednesday, November 19 at 10:30 AM, Room 12A/12B.

Two chip makers have teamed up to create what they claim is the first chip to bring 10 Gbit Ethernet over copper to server motherboards. Mellanox Technologies and Teranetics hope the ConnectX ENt accelerates what to date has been a sluggish uptake for the high speed link.