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BLADE Network Technologies Opens Office to Meet Rising Demand for Data Center Networking in the Middle East and Africa
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/04/09 --
BLADE Network Technologies Inc.
(BLADE), the trusted leader in
data center networking, announced today the opening of a new sales and
support office in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to serve customers
throughout the Middle East and Africa. BLADE's Kamran Siddiqui will serve
as territory manager. Al Sayegh Brothers
Trading, a full service institution that offers complete brand
management solutions, has been appointed as the master distributor in the
UAE for BLADE's RackSwitch family of data center switches.
"We are pleased to expand our worldwide presence with our new sales and
support office in the UAE, one of the world's leading centers of commerce,"
said Charles Ferland, vice president of EMEA, BLADE Network Technologies.
"Customers across the Middle East and Africa are deploying our RackSwitch products to
meet their growing data center networking requirements; this new regional
presence demonstrates our commitment to the region."
He added, "We are delighted to have appointed Al Sayegh Brothers as our
master distributor in the United Arab Emirates, whose extensive channel
experience will play a key role in helping BLADE take maximum advantage of
the huge potential on offer in the region. BLADE's 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet
RackSwitch products have already been deployed to solve latency and
performance issues at major oil and gas companies, educational institutions and other
businesses. BLADE's RackSwitch offers the best price/performance and
lowest power consumption, especially for this region where energy costs are
rising and governments are embarking upon green IT initiatives."
"BLADE Network Technologies is a premier provider of data center networking
solutions," said Abdul Jabbar Al Sayegh, chairman and chief executive
officer of Al Sayegh Brothers Group. "We are proud to become the master
distributor for BLADE's RackSwitch products for the United Arab Emirates."
Wesgreen International School in Sharjah, UAE, has recently commenced an
evaluation of BLADE RackSwitch Gigabit/10 Gigabit solutions as part of its
strong commitment to maintaining an optimized technology and
networking infrastructure. There are four state-of-the-art computer labs in
the school and these meet the challenging needs of students incorporating
the latest developments in the field of science and technology.
Commented Babar Mughal, Wesgreen's IT Unit Head: "In an age of information
explosion no one can afford to be indifferent to the vast resources
available on the world-wide-web. That is why we provide internet facilities
for our students so they can make use of the web in completing project work
thus developing creativity, research skills and encouraging homework. We
believe in giving the best to our students and as demand grows ensuring
high speed internet and network access will be essential for continuing to
meet their expectations and requirements. This is why the BLADE RackSwitch
is so exciting as it offers a cost-effective solution for high performance,
low latency computing for now and in the future."
BLADE is one of the top three providers of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches,
according to Dell'Oro Group's Q209 Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report, and is
on track to deliver another year of strong growth. The company achieved its
best ever quarterly revenues, profits and market share following the close
of its third fiscal 2009 quarter on July 31.
BLADE leads Cisco in market share of Ethernet switches for blade servers
through its trusted partnerships with HP, IBM, NEC and Verari Systems and
recently completed its Series B financing with new investors NEC (TSE: 6701), Juniper Networks and a third technology industry leader as a silent
investor. These join founding investor, Garnett & Helfrich Capital, which
reinvested in the company. This funding round values the company at $230
million.
BLADE's RackSwitch 1/10G products combine best-in-class hardware design and
power consumption with server-specific features, ultra low latency, data
center optimized airflow and full interoperability with existing network
environments.
BLADE maintains a worldwide presence including its Santa Clara, CA
headquarters, BLADE Network Research (BNR) development subsidiary in
Ottawa, Canada and BLADE Network K.K. subsidiary in Japan and sales and
support operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia
Pacific, China and Korea. Please contact: sales_emea@bladenetwork.net.
About BLADE Network Technologies
BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE) is the leading provider of Gigabit and 10G
Ethernet cloud-ready networking solutions for dynamic,
enterprise data centers worldwide. In addition to its innovative OEM blade
switches, and SmartConnect with VMready virtualization and BLADEHarmony
Manager software, BLADE's "Virtual, Cooler, Easier" RackSwitch
family enables "Rackonomics" -- an efficient approach for scaling out data
center networks to drive down total cost of ownership. BLADE's customers
include more than 300 of the Fortune 500 across 26 industry segments,
representing nearly 7 million switch ports connecting over 2 million
servers and storage systems in data centers around the globe. Visit:
www.bladenetwork.net. Twitter: @BLADENetwork.
BLADE Network Technologies, the BLADE logo, BLADEHarmony, RackSwitch,
RackSwitch Solution Partner, SmartConnect and VMready are trademarks of
BLADE Network Technologies.
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CONTACTS:
Maxine Bingham
BLADE Network Technologies
(408) 806-5028
Email Contact
Zee Zaballos
ZNA Communications
(831) 425.1581x201
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