Blade Network and Consolidate-IT have announced a partnership to bring Blade’s RackSwitch family, along with virtualization and switch management software to enterprise data centers throughout Europe. According to this Blade press release, Consolidate-IT will distribute BLADE’s Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet RackSwitch product family and innovative virtualization and enterprise data center networking solutions throughout Europe.
“Consolidate-IT and BLADE are partnering to address the rapidly growing market for 10GbE networking in European enterprise data centres with competitive, differentiated open solutions that are lossless, low latency, low power and low cost. Leveraging BLADE’s commitment to the channel as demonstrated by its existing sales and support operations in the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands, this partnership is expected to accelerate BLADE’s channel sales and marketing in Europe.”