What's all the buzz about? See what our clients and Business Partners are saying about their experiences with IBM BladeCenter® technology.
"Telecommunications service providers are adopting blade servers at an accelerating rate into their core network environments. The integration of Altiris Deployment Solution with the IBM BladeCenter family helps customers leverage existing management tools to deploy blades quickly and efficiently, thereby dramatically reducing TCO."
-Steve Morton, Altiris VP of Product Management and Marketing
"Atreus Systems alignment with IBM and Intel on the BladeCenter Alliance will give our mutual customers the flexibility to bring diverse applications like VoIP, Messaging and IMS-based offerings to market quickly and cost-effectively."
-Tony Busa, Director Communications, Atreus Systems
"IBM's BladeCenter T platform fills an important gap in the market, addressing the growing need for complex processing resources and interfaces needed to create enhanced telecom applications. As we help our customers make the transition to Voice over IP, it's clear that leveraging blade architectures simplifies the integration and reduces long-term operating costs."
-Sharone Ben-Levi, VP of Marketing for the AudioCodes Blade Business Line, AudioCodes
"As the number-one supplier of network switches for blade servers, BLADE Network Technologies built the industry's first switch to bring 10 G to IBM BladeCenter, and now we are proud to present IBM and its customers with the first 400 Gbps switch that brings 10 G to each server blade."
-Vikram Mehta, President and CEO, BLADE Network Technologies
"The IBM BladeCenter platform is key to BridgePort Networks' strategy of providing a highly scalable telecom carrier-grade solution. Its improved performance will allow our customers to deliver voice, messaging, and content-driven Fixed Mobile Convergence more cost-effectively."
-Steve Blumenthal, Chief Technology Officer, Bridgeport Networks
"BroadSoft has worked closely with IBM to optimize our solutions on the IBM BladeCenter family of products with great success. We're excited about the forthcoming release of BladeCenter HT and expect it will further accelerate the shift we're seeing towards blade servers as our customers transition to IMS and next-generation networks."
-Bob Weidenfeller, Vice President of Engineering, BroadSoft
"The IBM BladeCenter provides an effective in-network server platform for Bytemobile's Unison integrated IP services architecture, which offers wireless carriers seamless interoperability and scalability."
-Adrian Hall, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Bytemobile
"Cantata's software-based SnowShore IP Media Server in combination with IBM's new BladeCenter technology provides an open-standards-based approach along with the reliability and performance that service providers need to support the next-generation of IP multimedia applications."
-Andrew Bezaitis, Vice President of Business Development, Cantata Technology
"IBM's BladeCenter HT, combined with Trillium protocol software and professional services from Continuous Computing, enables telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy next-generation networks."
-Ron Pyles, President, Continuous Computing
"For carrier-scale deployments, BladeCenter solutions cost-effectively deliver our Unified Communications Portal (UC-Portal) applications with excellent performance, while simplifying installation and management."
-Neil Collins, Chief Technology Officer, Internet Applications Division, Data Connection, Limited
"As a provider of turnkey infrastructure appliances for leading ISVs, Datatrend Technologies relies upon the IBM BladeCenter as the preferred platform for our telecom solutions. The IBM BladeCenter T and HT in particular offer the highest levels of availability for mission-critical applications and unparalleled price-performance, scalability, manageability and flexibility — critical elements to satisfy our ISV partners and their customers"
-Darren Waldrep, VP Strategic Alliances, Datatrend Technologies/
"Digium uses IBM BladeCenter and IBM System x™ to run Asterisk Business Edition because it is reliable, flexible and interoperable with leading brands and partners. The cost-effective installation platform easily expands to meet our target SMB and enterprise customers' fast-growing needs."
-Mark Spencer, President and CEO of Digium and creator of Asterisk
"Emulex has worked closely with IBM to develop innovative solutions for our mutual customers. The BladeCenter family of products demands the highest possible performance and reliability, and we're pleased to provide our qualified market-leading 4 Gbps HBAs for the BladeCenter HT."
-Mike Smith, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Emulex Corporation
"We believe that by building solutions using industry-leading, standards-based platforms, such as the IBM BladeCenter and GoAhead SelfReliant high-availability management software, customers are able to put together application-ready platforms in a cost-effective and timely way."
-Dr. Asif Naseem, CTO and COO, GoAhead
"The BladeCenter is a core platform for enterprise and telecom infrastructure. Internet Security Systems and the IBM BladeCenter team are very excited about working together to expand this trusted platform into next-generation networks. Next-generation networks demand the seamless integration of uptime and high availability with strong security, a combination that BladeCenter delivers."
-Greg Adams, Vice President, Product Development, IBM Internet Security Systems
"Running ActivEdge on the IBM BladeCenter ensures that Iperia's customers are in the forefront of next-generation innovation. The BladeCenter technology will provide a lower capital expenditure to the end user while simultaneously maintaining a superior level of scalability and flexibility."
-Jonathan Ross, President, Iperia
"Running on the IBM BladeCenter family of products, Leapstone's Communications Convergence Engine provides carriers with unparalleled scalability — up to a million hourly service completions per cluster — coupled with a NEBS-compliant platform and outstanding performance on a secure standards-based system. We expect the IBM BladeCenter HT to add further momentum to our already industry-leading solutions."
-Jennifer Smith Byers, VP Sales & Business Development, Leapstone Systems
"IPTV service providers will appreciate the performance, ease of management and scalability offered by IBM's BladeCenter. Consumers are very demanding of their TV services, and IBM's proven, carrier-grade servers will allow our customers to roll out innovative IPTV offerings with confidence."
-Mauro Bonomi, CEO, Minerva Networks
"The IBM BladeCenter family is a key element for the successful development and deployment of Mobixell's Mobile Multimedia Innovative Solutions. The ability to provide a high-performance, highly dense, NEBS-certified architecture opens new market segments and it brings FMC one step closer."
-Yosi Ben-Tsur, Director of System Architecture, Mobixell Networks
"The IBM BladeCenter platform enables Narus, a leader in network traffic management, to deliver carrier-class systems to service providers that are easy to set up and manage. Together, IBM and Narus provide the winning combination of scalability, reliability, and serviceability."
-Jay Thomas, Vice President Global Channels and Sales Operations, Narus
"Neterion is very pleased to expand its relationship with IBM by providing critical high-performance 10 GbE connectivity support for their new IBM BladeCenter HT chassis. IBM BladeCenter servers offer the ideal architecture for telco central offices where performance is measured by the square inch."
-Dave Zabrowski, President & CEO, Neterion
"Nimaya's software works in tandem with IBM blade servers to help telco firms realize and maximize the cost savings and performance gains required for competing in the dynamic and rapidly consolidating telco marketplace."
-Todd While, VP Business Development, Nimaya
"IBM's BladeCenter platform is ideal for network equipment providers as it provides them with a platform that supports and encourages the convergence of enterprise and carrier-grade systems, while maximizing their customers' IT investments. Recognizing the need for open specifications and COTS solutions, IBM's BladeCenter family also delivers the economic and technological results required by telecommunications equipment manufacturers today. The combination of the BladeCenter family and OpenClovis' open-source, high-availability and manageability Application Service Platform software forms a robust foundation on which TEMs and NEPs can base their next-generation, differentiated applications"
-VK Budhraja, President and CEO, OpenClovis
"Red Hat is working with IBM to deliver integrated telecommunications platforms and solutions based on the IBM BladeCenter platform. The introduction of the IBM BladeCenter HT will accelerate telecommunications convergence to standards-based technologies like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and BladeCenter."
-Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, Red Hat
"Solid Information Technology continues to work with IBM to ensure our data management solution enhances and supports the requirements for a standards-based ecosystem for the IBM BladeCenter, making it easier and more cost-effective for our joint customers to create and deliver embedded solutions that are fast, always on and flexible."
-Ari Valtanen, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Solid
"Supplying top telecom providers with guaranteed 99,999-percent availability, StreamWIDE needs hardware solutions that exceed these reliability levels. The NEBS Level 3/ETSI-compliant IBM BladeCenter HT is definitely the best market solution to run StreamWIDE's VoIP carrier grade software products."
-Pascal Béglin, CEO, StreamWIDE
"The Sylantro Synergy application feature server on the IBM BladeCenter platform enables a compelling reduction in total cost of ownership for service providers launching IMS and next- generation services."
-Ron Raffensperger, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Sylantro Systems
"Blade.org provides a compelling point-of-view in the rapidly evolving compute industry. This viewpoint is grounded in the strength of the BladeCenter platform, is reflective of its growing ecosystem, and acutely aware of the importance to serve customer needs across the entire solutions stack. At Teak, we cherish such an environment, where collaboration serves as a force multiplier in shaping the future of a nascent industry. We are excited to be building a 10 G congestion-free Ethernet switching solution on the IBM BladeCenter family platform."
-Sanjay Dua, Chief Marketing Officer, Teak Technologies
"IBM BladeCenter T is a platform of choice for telecom operators to deploy next-generation networks. It brings superior power and modularity to design very large switches delivering complex services, while allowing large CAPEX and OPEX reduction. By basing our products on IBM BladeCenter T, Thomson now stands out in the marketplace with its Cirpack Multinode-B, providing the voice-switching technology needed for the very large nodes and infrastructures demanded by telecom operators."
-Jean-Pierre Dumolard, NIS General Manager, Thomson
"IBM's BladeCenter provides the telecommunications industry with the flexibility and modularity required to support the high-availability software environment essential for rapid delivery of next-generation applications. This building-block solution offers our NEP customers a scalable, flexible and resilient network platform for the quick development and deployment of revenue-generating applications."
-Osman Duman, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Ulticom
"Unipier has been working with IBM to help telecommunications service providers with intelligent policy management. As the basic building block for Unipier solutions, the IBM BladeCenter helps telecommunications service providers reduce their CapEX and OpEX by providing a series of more-powerful and open servers. We believe that our customers will enjoy even more-attractive performance when using Unipier's leading Intelligent Policy Management system with the new IBM BladeCenter HT."
-Eyal Brosh, Vice President of R&D, Unipier
"The IBM BladeCenter provides superior scalability and manageability as well as significant reductions in heat and power requirements. Together we bring to market an offering with increased performance capabilities that is comprehensive and cost-effective."
-Art Cederberg, Vice President, Strategic Accounts, Verso Technologies
"Vyatta is changing the price-performance of the networking industry by enabling businesses to create new, networking solutions using open standards servers. Vyatta is able to utilize IBM's BladeCenter platforms to address the needs of SMB and enterprise customers looking for easy-to-manage systems. Running on NEBS-compliant BladeCenter T and BladeCenter HT, Vyatta provides an ideal solution for telecom central office environments that demand the highest performance and scalability as they scale up and out."
-Keith Hartley, VP Worldwide Alliances, Vyatta, Inc.