Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Switch Module Available for IBM BladeCenter

Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, today announced the availability of the Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch module for IBM BladeCenter. Custom designed by Voltaire for IBM, the new switch delivers 100 percent faster InfiniBand connectivity to accelerate performance of applications running on BladeCenter in both the high performance computing (HPC) and enterprise data center markets.

“Today our customers are looking to increase utilization and performance from their systems in order to reduce costs and their IT footprint within the company, and getting maximum interconnect fabric performance is critical to meeting these objectives,” said Alex Yost, vice president, IBM Systems & Technology Group. “The addition of the Voltaire-designed 40 Gb/s InfiniBand switch module for BladeCenter means customers can now leverage the resiliency of BladeCenter and the performance of 40 Gb/s InfiniBand in a single package.”

The Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Switch Module is based on Voltaire’s field-proven design and features fourteen 40 Gb/s internal ports for server connectivity and sixteen external QSFP ports for fabric connectivity. Combined with port to port latency of less than 100 nanoseconds, this provides a congestion-free solution that exceeds the bandwidth and latency requirements of even the most intensive applications. Moreover, the switch consumes only 4 watts of power per port making it an energy efficient solution for today’s data centers.

“The Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter delivers new levels of bandwidth and low latency to better support the demanding performance requirements of scale-out applications in both enterprise data centers and HPC,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. “The switch’s high bandwidth, I/O throughput and scalability as well as its energy efficiency will support the IT objectives for customers in industries including financial services, manufacturing, life sciences, government and education.”

Availability

The Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter is available today through IBM.

About Voltaire

Voltaire (NASDAQ: VOLT) is a leading provider of scale-out computing fabrics for data centers, high performance computing and cloud environments. Voltaire’s family of server and storage fabric switches and advanced management software improve performance of mission-critical applications, increase efficiency and reduce costs through infrastructure consolidation and lower power consumption. Used by more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100 and other premier organizations across many industries, including many of the TOP500 supercomputers, Voltaire products are included in server and blade offerings from Bull, HP, IBM, NEC and Sun and provide the internal server-to-storage connectivity for the HP-Oracle Database Machine. Founded in 1997, Voltaire is headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel and Billerica, Massachusetts. More information is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247.

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