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BLADE Network Technologies

Networking hardware company (2006–2011)

BLADE Network Technologies, based in Santa Clara, California, was a supplier of Ethernet network switches for blade servers and server and storage data center racks. BLADE was acquired by IBM in 2010, and was renamed "IBM System Networking" in 2011, which was later sold to Lenovo as part of its purchase of IBM's x86 server division2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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BLADE Network Technologies, based in Santa Clara, California, was a supplier of Ethernet network switches for blade servers and server and storage data center racks.2

The story

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.

Vikram Mehta was president and CEO.

In 2008, the company introduced its RackSwitch line of top-of-rack 1-10 Gigabit Ethernet data center switches. IBM acquired BLADE in October 2010, renaming it to "IBM System Networking" in 2011.

Lenovo acquired IBM's server business, including System Networking, in 2014.

From Wikipedia’s article on Blade Network Technologies, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

  • networking hardware

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Timeline

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