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More than 40 technology leaders including IBM and Intel today announced the official formation of Blade.org, an open community that will develop and advance next-generation technologies for blades. The Blade.org community will initially focus on solution design guidance, compliance and interoperability testing, industry events and marketplace education. More than 40 technology leaders including IBM and Intel today announced the official formation of Blade.org, an open community that will develop and advance next-generation technologies for blades. The Blade.org community will initially focus on solution design guidance, compliance and interoperability testing, industry events and marketplace education. On the announcement of the Blade.org, Fulcrum VP of Marketing Mike Zeile said: "We wholeheartedly support the goals and aims of Blade.org and believe by opening up the blade computing architecture customers will benefit from increased technological innovations that will better allow them to leveage incredibly dense computing power in these systems. At Fulcrum, we are dedicated to bringing the performance and ecosystem of 10-Gigabit Ethernet to the blade computing world to further expand the versatility and impact that blade computing can have in an organization." New members announced today include Altiris, AMD, Avnet, BladeFusion, Broadcom, Brocade, CGAtlantic, Citrix Systems, Clovis Solutions, Devon IT, Emulex, Force10 Networks, Fulcrum Microsystems, HCL Technologies, IBM, Intel, iVivity, Myricom, NetApp, NetEffect, Neoware, Nortel, Novell, OpenService, PathScale, QLogic, Qumranet, Red Hat, Sensory Networks, Server Engines, Stargen, Symantec, Teak Technologies, Tehuti Networks, Universal Network Machines, Universal Scientific Industrial, Virtual Iron, VMware, Voltaire, Wyse Technology and Zeus Technology. The membership levels are governing, sponsoring and general.