"Voltaire's approach to scale-out Ethernet fabrics is open and based on industry standards so customers can use best-of-breed solutions across their data centers," said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. "By building an ecosystem of industry-leading partners with expertise that spans across compute, network, storage access and virtualization technologies, we can provide the most scalable, highest performance, lowest latency and lowest cost 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution for customers."

Voltaire Vantage Ethernet switches are based on Layer 2 core converged enhanced Ethernet (CEE) technology that enables customers to benefit from a far more scalable, lower latency, and virtualized 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric, with lower costs, power consumption and simplified management.

Voltaire's open, global partner ecosystem spans a broad spectrum of technology partners that interoperate with Voltaire's Ethernet switches to deliver an end-to-end, seamless solution for customers based on open, industry standards and platforms. Voltaire has formed technology and solution development relationships with industry leading compute, network, storage access and virtualization technology providers including: VMware, Red Hat, Platform Computing, NYSE Technologies, NetApp, Mellanox Technologies, Intel, IBM, HP, Fulcrum Microsystems, Cluster Resources, Chelsio Communications and BLADE Network Technologies.