New Connectivity Option for BladeCenter Brings Unprecedented
Performance, Scalability and Energy Efficiency
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.
