Dicker Data to Distribute BLADE's RackSwitch Networking Products in Australia

Dicker Data, an IT systems distributor, has announced it will be distributing BLADE Network Technologies’s Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet RackSwitch products in Australia.

 “We are delighted to team up with BLADE as a trusted provider of Gigabit Ethernet solutions for high performance computing clusters, cloud computing, IP storage, video on demand and other Web 2.0 applications,” said Chris Price, sales manager, Dicker Data.

 

“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,” Price said.

BLADE specializes in data center networking and is partnering with Dicker Data to deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions including IP SANs for scalable storage performance, single-wire networks that converge networking and storage.

 

They also offer solutions for any data center environment that requires cloud computing or high performance computing-class performance, said official sources.

Peter Hall, Vice President, Asia Pacific, BLADE Network Technologies said, “We are very pleased that Dicker Data has teamed up with BLADE Network Technologies to deliver our 10 Gigabit Ethernet RackSwitch solutions in the data center.”

Hall also said that Dicker Data and BLADE will work together to ensure that solution providers understand the total cost of ownership advantages of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and how best to employ the ‘Virtual, Cooler and Easier’ capabilities of the RackSwitch family for demanding data center networks.

The new 1U RackSwitch product family extends virtualization by mirroring the benefits of server virtualization within the network at the rack level. This saves energy through rack-friendly cooling and allows simple management and fabric convergence.