Colfax International Joins BLADE Network Technologies’ RackSwitch Solution Partner Program

PRLog (Press Release) - Mar 23, 2010 -
Colfax International, a leading, international provider of hardware and software for the high-performance computing ecosystem, announced that BLADE Network Technologies’ (BLADE’s) 1-10 Gigabit Ethernet RackSwitch™ product family is now available for purchase through ColfaxDirect.com. Colfax International joins BLADE’s RackSwitch Solution Partner Program.

"We offer our customers only the highest-quality HPC products and services at the best prices," said Gautam Shah, CEO, Colfax International. "We are delighted to team up with BLADE Network Technologies as a trusted provider of 1-10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions for high performance computing clusters, cloud computing, IP storage, video on demand and other Web 2.0 applications. BLADE’s RackSwitch products are best-of-breed, top-of-rack switches that deliver the high bandwidth and low latency essential to today’s consolidated, dynamic and virtualized data center environments.”

BLADE’s "Virtual, Cooler, Easier" 1-10 Gigabit Ethernet RackSwitch networking solutions for data center environments add network intelligence to blade and top-of-rack servers, while enhancing performance and providing high availability, scalability, manageability and security to the data center environment. Customers that add BLADE Network Technologies switches to their infrastructure will realize significant reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) for their data center and cloud computing infrastructures.

RackSwitch products from BLADE take a breakthrough approach known as “Rackonomics” to reduce the total cost of ownership of data center infrastructures, overcome network overload and enable scale-out data center economies. Data center architects can standardize on a unified and affordable rack-level network infrastructure to provision and scale out cloud computing environments, high-performance clusters and virtualized data centers.

“We are delighted to welcome Colfax International to BLADE Network Technologies’ RackSwitch Solution Partner Program,” said Tracy Hickox, vice president, North American Sales, BLADE Network Technologies. “Colfax International’s extensive customer base, including Fortune 1000 companies, educational institutions and government agencies, will be able to benefit from BLADE’s top-of-rack switching products as they upgrade their data center networks for HPC-class computing and other demanding application requirements more affordably and efficiently.”

Product Details
Colfax International will deliver BLADE’s RackSwitch products including:

BLADE RackSwitch G8124 - 24 SFP+ 10Gb Ethernet ports and ultra-low latency ideal for HPC clusters and financial applications

BLADE RackSwitch G8100 - 24 CX4 10Gb Ethernet ports and ultra-low latency ideal for HPC clusters and financial applications

BLADE RackSwitch G8000 - 48 Gigabit Ethernet and 4 10Gb Ethernet ports ideal for rack-level server connectivity, Web 2.0 cloud clusters and/or as a Gigabit aggregation switch.

All the products are immediately available.