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Voltaire is a leader in interconnect solutions for high-performance grid computing. Voltaire’s InfiniBand interconnect solutions deliver significant return on investment to the data center by improving the performance and utilization of clustered databases, shared servers, and storage. Voltaire leads the industry with the largest switch to support clusters scaling from hundreds to thousands of nodes.

Voltaire provides InfiniBand interconnect solutions for IBM eServerTM 1350 clusters and DB2® ICE, as well as other IBM hardware and applications.

“IBM’s autonomic computing toolkit helped us focus on our core value, which is to provide high-performance switches with built-in network and storage resource virtualization. Using the toolkit, the overlapping functionality is implemented centrally and in a way which makes it easy for customers to work in mixed vendor environments. By coupling IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator (TIO) and Voltaire’s high-performance, multi-service switching platforms, customers benefit from a high-performance grid infrastructure orchestrated by TIO.”
- Yaron Haviv, CTO, Voltaire.

Voltaire provides high-performance, multi-service switches and virtualization software that enables complete network, storage and server virtualization. The solution couples IBM servers, storage, and middleware with Voltaire switches and software to create scalable, high-performance enterprise grids.

Voltaire solutions help enable customers to gain dynamically provisioned high-performance solutions--at a fraction of the cost. The fully-integrated IBM and Voltaire solution achieves high utilization and helps greatly simplify operations.

• The joint Voltaire and IBM solution consists of the following:
• Voltaire multi-service switches with InfiniBand, GbE, and FC ports as well as wire-speed layer 2-7 network and storage provisioning
• Voltaire InfiniBand adapter cards and software drivers
• Voltaire Grid Interconnect Management Software that is self-healing, self-monitoring, self-optimizing
• Xen server virtualization software with Voltaire driver support
• Diskless IBM servers and IBM SAN storage
• IBM clustered storage software such as GPFS or SanFS
• IBM DB2 (and /or) WebSphere®

Voltaire solutions scale linearly to thousands of nodes and are deployed in some of the world’s largest computer environments. Applications may include:

• Large database farms
• Banking and financial applications
• High-performance storage demanding applications such as data warehousing, media, business intelligence
• large-scale automotive and energy applications