History
On February 13, 2006, Garnett & Helfrich Capital 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. In 2008, the company introduced its RackSwitch line of top-of-rack 1-10 Gigabit Ethernet data center switches. The company’s customers included Fortune 500 companies across 26 industry segments, with more than 220,000 network switches and over 5 million switch ports connecting more than 1,100,000 servers.
IBM acquired BLADE in October 2010.
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