Voltaire Delivers Industry’s First SSI-Compliant 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Blade Switch

Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, today announced the industry’s first Server System Infrastructure™ (SSI)-compliant InfiniBand switch for blade server systems. Available today, the Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Blade Switch Module delivers scalable, high performance and energy efficient connectivity for clustered blade solutions. Dawning Information Industry Co., Asia’s no. 1 supercomputing infrastructure supplier, will demonstrate the Voltaire switch as part of its introduction of the world’s first blade computing system to fully comply with SSI standards. The demonstration will take place at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2009, Sept. 22-24, at San Francisco’s Moscone Center in booth #413.

Industry-wide standards for blade computing systems are largely driven by the SSI Forum (www.ssiforum.org), a leading server industry group chartered with the development of server infrastructure standards that address customer and ecosystem challenges. The Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Blade Switch Module is the industry’s first InfiniBand blade switch to comply with SSI specifications and ensure interoperability across industry-standard blade computing systems, including Dawning’s new TC3600 Blade System.

“The Dawning TC3600 Blade System with Voltaire InfiniBand provides an efficient infrastructure solution to generate maximum performance for mission-critical applications while also reducing costs, space and power requirements,” said Nie Hua, vice president of Dawning. “We’re pleased to lead the industry with the world’s first SSI-compliant blade computing system giving our customers the added assurance that their systems are based on industry-wide standards and have proven interoperability.”

The Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Blade 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 SSI Forum is helping to drive the rapid adoption of blade servers and I am pleased to see the collaboration between Dawning and Voltaire to bring solutions to market that take advantage of these well-defined standards,” said Jim Ryan, SSI Forum president and initiative manager, Intel.

“The Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Blade Switch Module delivers high performance and low latency to meet the scalability and energy efficiency requirements of scale-out data centers that are turning to blade computing systems for their IT infrastructure,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. “We’re extremely pleased to be the first to offer an SSI-compliant InfiniBand blade switch that’s interoperable with the SSI standards-based blade solutions from our large global network of partners.”

Availability

The Voltaire 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Blade Switch Module is available today through select Voltaire OEM partners and resellers. More information is available at www.voltaire.com/SSI.

About the SSI Forum

Established in 1998, the Server System Infrastructure (SSI) Forum is a leading server industry group that drives server infrastructure standards. Now with over 50 members worldwide, the SSI Forum creates standards for redundant server power systems, rack-mount server chassis, power control and management, and other components and services that simplify the build of server solutions. The SSI Forum recently extended its focus to include blade-based server standards that address customer and ecosystem challenges. SSI’s goal is to enable future server market growth by standardizing interfaces between components, including boards, chassis, and power supplies, and by developing common server hardware elements. The SSI Forum held an SSI Workshop in August 2009 that spotlighted the ease and importance of interoperability for industry-leading OEMs. More information is available at www.ssiforum.org.

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.

Forward Looking Statements

Information provided in this press release may contain statements relating to current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about future events that are "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements generally relate to Voltaire's plans, objectives and expectations for future operations and are based upon management's current estimates and projections of future results or trends. They also include third-party projections regarding expected industry growth rates. Actual future results may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. These factors include, but are not limited to, those discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in Voltaire’s annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2008. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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