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IBM Announces Formation of Blade.org Industry Community for BladeCenter

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Jul 25, 2005 — 1 min read

IBM has announced its intention to form a collaborative community around BladeCenter called Blade.org, with companies like Brocade, Cisco, Citrix Systems, and others expressing interest in joining as founding members. This move aims to accelerate solutions development and innovation around BladeCenter, a design co-developed by IBM and Intel. The community will enable partners to test and interoperate their products on BladeCenter, driving growth in Voice over IP, industry-specific solutions, security, and other technologies.

Key Takeaways:

Blade.org is a collaborative organization focused on accelerating the expansion of solutions for BladeCenter, a design co-developed by IBM and Intel.
The community plans to enable BladeCenter ecosystem partners to test and interoperate their products on BladeCenter, driving the development of this rapidly growing community and innovations in various technologies.
Blade.org aims to facilitate the expansion of solutions based on the BladeCenter specifications, similar to the IBM eServer BladeCenter Alliance Program.
More than 260 companies have received the BladeCenter specifications, with over 350 technology and solution partners participating in the BladeCenter Alliance Program.
BladeCenter has been the leading blade server in the industry for seven successive quarters, according to IDC.
IBM shipped over 200,000 blades since market introduction, the first and only vendor to reach that milestone.

Statistics:

260 companies have received the BladeCenter specifications.
Over 350 technology and solution partners are participating in the BladeCenter Alliance Program.
BladeCenter has been the leading blade server in the industry for seven successive quarters, as of May 2005.
IBM has shipped over 200,000 blades since market introduction.

Sources:

MARKET WIRE via COMTEX, Jul 26, 2005
IBM Corporation, Press Release, "IBM Announces Formation of Blade.org Industry Community for BladeCenter "
IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, May 2005.

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