IBM Buys Data Center Switching Company BLADE Network Technologies
September 27, 2010 at 09:56 AM EDT
IBM today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies , a privately held data center switching company based in Santa Clara, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. BLADE, founded in 2006, specializes in software and devices that route data and transactions to and from servers; the company provides blade server and top-of-rack switches as well as software to virtualize and manage cloud computing and other workloads.