Blade.org, the open collaborative community has stated that the global venture capital community has invested more than USD1 billion during the last two years to fund companies developing emerging technologies and solutions to help customers simplify business computing with blade servers. In 2006, technology leaders, including Blade Network Technologies, Brocade, Citrix, IBM, Intel, NetXen, Nortel and VMware joined to form Blade.org, an open collaborative community is dedicated to building blade-based solutions for customers. From eight founding companies, Blade.org has grown to nearly 100 members in just one year, including leading blade hardware and software providers, developers, distribution partners and end users from around the globe.