Blade.org Alliances and Affiliations

Blade.org is a collaborative organization and seeks to align itself with other industry organizations that benefit the blade server community. Here are some other organizations that contribute to our community.

	The BLADE READY™ Program unites vendors of complementary Network Critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI) technologies to deliver comprehensive interoperable products, solutions, and services for high density and blade computing environments. Together, BLADE READY™ members help you take full advantage of new blade technologies by offering products and services to help you assess, design, procure, stage, implement and interconnect your blade solution. Click to visit www.bladeready.com.
	The Blade Systems Alliance's (BladeS) mission is to advance the adoption of modular and blade-based computing systems. In cooperation with the worldwide community of data center professionals and other advanced systems users, BladeS: Promotes multi-vendor standards for modular systems management and racking. Works with the user community to address real-world data center and advanced computing issues. Delivers information, programs and forums to educate and inform. The Blade Systems Alliance is a forum for end users, consultants, and vendors who are interested in the deployment and application of blade systems. Click to visit www.bladesystems.org.
	The Ethernet Alliance is dedicated to promoting industry awareness, acceptance, and advancement of technology and products based on existing and emerging IEEE 802 Ethernet standards. The organization's mission is to accelerate industry adoption and remove barriers to market entry by providing a cohesive, market-responsive industry voice on IEEE 802 Ethernet projects. Click to visit www.ethernetalliance.org.
	The Green Grid is a consortium of information technology companies and professionals seeking to lower the overall consumption of power in data centers around the globe. The organization is chartered to develop meaningful, platform-neutral standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve energy efficient performance of global data centers. Membership to The Green Grid is open to those companies and information technology professionals with an interest in helping to support the movement to improve data center power consumption, and improve overall efficiency. Click to visit www.thegreengrid.org.
	The Service Availability Forum™ is a consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies working together to develop and publish high availability and management software interface specifications. The SA Forum then promotes and facilitates specification adoption by the industry. Click to visit www.saforum.org.