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BLADE Network Technologies' CEO Vikram Mehta will join with executives from IBM and NYSE Technologies to explore "New Approaches to Ultra-Low Latency and Creating Dynamic Insights" at the 2010 High Performance Computing Financial Markets conference. The panel takes place Monday, September 20 at 1:30pm ET at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The panel will discuss the latest low-latency techniques and technology directions and creating insights through complex event processing. Credentialed press and analysts are welcome to attend the panel and conference, as well as meet with Vikram Mehta. Please contact press@bladenetwork.net. The panel is comprised of:

Dave Weber, moderator, IBM Wall Street Center of Excellence Vikram Mehta, CEO, BLADE Network Technologies Falke Bruinsma, IBM, Chief Architect, WebSphere Front Office & Low Latency Messaging John Morar, IBM, Research Scientist, InfoSphere Streams Feargal O'Sullivan, NYSE Technologies, Head of Enterprise Software, Americas

"Financial services data centers require an ever-growing amount of network bandwidth with the lowest possible latency and a maximum of two hops in their network topologies," said Vikram Mehta, president and CEO, BLADE Network Technologies. "BLADE is addressing these needs for ever-greater speed and intelligence at the edge of the network with our award-winning line of high-performance Ethernet switches, interoperability with existing network infrastructures, and Unified FabricArchitecture (UFA) technology. The UFA platform is designed around flat networks, converged LAN, SAN and management and 1/10Gb Ethernet with a roadmap for 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet."