March 5, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Blade Systems Alliance (bladesystems.org) announced earlier this week that Server Blade Summit 2004 (serverbladesummit.com), a conference and exhibition showcasing the blade server market, will take place next week from March 9-11 in San Jose. The third annual summit, will feature more than 100 speakers from leading blade server system vendors, including Adaptec, Cisco, HP, Sun and Intel. Conference topics will include server blade management, emerging standards, data center applications, security, interfaces, XML services, supercomputing, and related business issues.
James Mouton of HP, Frank Schwartz of Sun Microsystems, Rob Davis of Qlogic and Anil Vasudeva of IMEX Research will deliver keynote addresses.
“Server Blade Summit 2004 provides the focal point for the continuing emergence of blade systems and modular computing at the forefront of one of the fastest growing segments in the IT industry,” says Lance Leventhal, conference director of Server Blade Summit 2004. “We are proud that the Server Blade Summit conference program features ground-breaking innovations and insightful perspectives from all corners of the blade systems, storage, networking, software and modular computing industries.”
Blade Systems Alliance is an independent, not-for-profit organization of server blade manufacturers, organization software suppliers, users, system integrators, and other interested parties. The organization is committed to disseminating information about blade servers, improving standards, and promoting their use in enterprise applications.
