Blade Network Technologies unveils Cloud Ready Network products ready for mass virtualization!

I think I should soon get a job as a reporter, really! This is all cool stuff to cover.

BLADE is delivering a series of Cloud Ready innovations that enable open unified networking for cloud computing environments whether operated by service providers or internal IT providers:

– High-bandwidth, low-latency switching: A BLADE switch can deliver up
to 100Gbps of uplink connectivity from a blade server to core networks at
latencies as low as 350ns to power the very large-scale, distributed I/O
required in cloud computing environments. Priced at under $500 per 10
Gigabit Ethernet port, BLADE 10Gb Ethernet switches enable the affordable
scale-out networks required for cloud computing. Standards-based and widely
available 10Gb Ethernet eliminates the need for InfiniBand in cloud
computing clusters.

– Convergence to Ethernet: At Interop, BLADE is introducing the first
FCoE-ready blade server switch with the loss-less switching required for
converged data and storage networking. This switch is the first to provide
a full 100 Gigabits of Ethernet connectivity to a blade server system. For
IP SANs in cloud computing environments, Stonefly recently selected BLADE’s
RackSwitch G8124 as the fastest 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch for deployment
with its new Voyager virtualized IP SAN solution. The StoneFly and BLADE
solution achieves iSCSI SAN performance of up to 950 megabytes per second.

– Massive virtualization for agile workloads: BLADE’s VMready™ switch-
resident software is the first networking solution to support 1,000 or more
virtual switch ports. A virtual machine-aware network is required by
today’s massive cloud computing environments. BLADE’s VMready switches are
available now for IBM BladeCenter and HP BladeSystem. VMready will be
available for BLADE’s RackSwitch top-of-rack switches in mid-2009.

– Scalable management: BLADE’s approach to Rackonomics enables the
lowest total cost of ownership for data center networks. Using BLADE’s
SmartConnect™ and BLADEHarmony™ Manager, multiple switches in the
stack can be managed as a single large switch. Multiple switches located in
multiple blade server chassis, even across racks, operate as one large
virtual switch.

– Advanced energy efficiency: The power consumption of a BLADE switch is
as low as a standard light bulb. In massive cloud computing environments,
this translates to savings of hundreds of thousands of kilowatt hours. At
Interop, BLADE will conduct a Power FaceOff between its RackSwitch and a
comparable Cisco switch.

BLADE will showcase its Cloud Ready Network Architecture and related products in BLADE’s booth 1175 at Interop, May 18-21, 2009, in Las Vegas.

Press Release

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