Unified Fabric Architecture from BLADE Network Technologies

BLADE’s Unified FabricArchitecture
BLADE Network Technologies
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Unified Fabric
Lossless
With Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE)
Low latency
For high-performance clusters (HPC)
To improve datacenter application performance
Low power
Saving the planet
Low cost
Conserving budget
Benefits
Customers may leverage existing investments in servers, storage and networking
Select the best innovations in the industry – no vendor lock-in
Achieve the lowest possible cost (TCO) via integrable & repeatable implementations
Unified FabricArchitecturefor Next Generation Datacenters
Storage
iSCSI, NAS or FCoE
Data
Ethernet
Compute
10G Unified Fabric
10G Ethernet
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Management

Unified FabricArchitectureIntegrating datacenter servers, storage and networking
BLADE Unified FabricArchitecture™
10Gb Ethernet switches that are lossless, low latency, low power, low cost
Network-aware Virtualization, FCoE, vNIC
Advanced Fabric Management and Smarter Server Control
Choice of servers, storage, OS, hypervisors and core network
Proven with >7.5M ports & 350 of the Fortune 500,industry leader ecosystem
Rackonomics™A repeatable approach for scaling out datacenters to make it easy to deploy and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)
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Rackonomics
Integrable & repeatable provisioning makes it easier:
To scale up or out
Provision the cloud
With Rackonomics, IT can:
Respond faster to business demands
Increase energy efficiency
Invest wisely
Decrease TCO
The Replicated Rack is the New Datacenter!
Rackonomics
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Unified FabricArchitecture Elements
Silicon
Hardware
Software
Management
Partnerships
Reliability
Datacenter Focus
FabricHarmony™ & Smart Server Control™
Virtualization Extensions: VMready™, NMotion™ & vNIC™
40GE
BLADEOS™
Junos
RackSwitch™
Embedded Switches
Merchant Silicon with BLADE Innovations
Gigabit
10GE
100GE
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BLADE Unified FabricArchitectureIntegrating datacenter servers, storage and networking
BLADEOS™
VMready™
vNIC™
Smart Server Control™
FabricHarmony™
High reliability
Datacenter focus
Partnershipsand the roadmap
Silicon innovations
Rack infrastructure – Rapid Provisioning and Control
Extreme reliability
40GE and 100GE innovations
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Unified FabricArchitecture
….is the reason why….
BLADE
Will Continue to Lead the
Datacenter Revolution
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Disclaimer
BLADE makes no warranties regarding the accuracy of this information. BLADE does not warrant or represent that it will introduce any product to which the information relates. It is presented for discussion purposes only.
All statements regarding BLADE’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, at BLADE’s sole discretion.
Prices, delivery dates and technical specifications are subject to change without notice.
Copyright 2010 BLADE Network Technologies. BLADE Network Technologies, the BLADE logo, BLADEHarmony, RackSwitch, SmartConnect and VMready are trademarks of BLADE Network Technologies. All other names or marks are property of their respective owners.
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