Blade Network Technologies

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 became part of IBM System Networking in 2010. Later sold to Lenovo as part of purchase of IBM x86 server division

History
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. Lenovo acquired IBM's server business, including BLADE in 2014.