Interop Las Vegas Booth #1175 -- BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, will unveil next week at Interop Las Vegas 2009 the delivery of the first in a set of products that support its Cloud Ready Network Architecture. BLADE's Cloud Ready Network Architecture incorporates the five elements of open networking required for efficient cloud computing, along with the products to build it.

BLADE's Cloud Ready products include the industry's first FCoE-ready 10 Gigabit Ethernet blade server switch with full 100 Gig Ethernet of uplink capacity, a high-performance 10GbE top-of-rack switching solution for IP SANs and a massive virtualization solution that supports more than 1,000 virtual ports for the cloud-ready data center.

BLADE's Cloud Ready Network Architecture addresses the network-related concerns about cloud computing raised in a controversial McKinsey & Company report "Clearing the air on cloud computing." The recent report states that specific steps can be taken to ensure the successful adoption of cloud technology, that technical, operational and financial hurdles will need to be overcome before clouds will be used extensively by enterprises and that CIOs should focus now on the immediate benefits of virtualizing server, storage, network operations, and other critical building blocks.

"As enterprises and cloud providers seek to harness the considerable advantages of cloud computing, their networks must be equipped with five essential elements -- high-bandwidth/low-latency switching, convergence to Ethernet, massive virtualization for agile workloads, scalable management and advanced energy efficiency," said Vikram Mehta, President and CEO, BLADE Network Technologies. "BLADE's Cloud Ready Network Architecture is extending the performance and capabilities of data center networks from blade server to switch to SAN that will enable the scale-out performance and economies promised by cloud computing."