Cluster Computing:

VOLTAIRE GARNERS SUCCESS WITH IBM CLUSTER

Voltaire, a leader in intelligent connectivity for high performance InfiniBand solutions, was honored for its key contributions to IBM's DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment (ICE) for Linux, which received the LinuxWorld Open Source Product Excellence Award for Best Cluster Solution. Presented by IDG World Expo in conjunction with the UniForum Association, the Product Excellence Awards recognize pioneering open source product and service innovations amongst exhibitors at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo held last week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

"Voltaire is proud to provide our advanced InfiniBand Database Solution for clustering, high-speed networking and storage connectivity as part of IBM's DB2 ICE for Linux and congratulates IBM on its success and recognition for delivering world-class clustered solutions to today's enterprise data centers," said Ronnie Kenneth, Chairman and CEO, Voltaire. "Voltaire continues to work with IBM to provide next-generation clustered solutions that enable enterprises to realize advanced data management capabilities and seamless, accelerated connectivity for their Linux environments."

The IBM DB2 ICE for Linux provides customers with a high performance data management infrastructure that can scale from 2 to 1,000 nodes in a clustered Linux environment. This enables customers to build on their existing business assets to achieve superior enterprise data performance at a lower cost. The award-winning solution features Voltaire's InfiniBand Database Kit and Voltaire's iSCSI-RDMA-based storage solution for InfiniBand clusters.

IBM and Voltaire have worked jointly on delivering InfiniBand technology to the business-computing environment. Voltaire's InfiniBand database solution is the first end-to-end solution that includes clustering, storage and IP connectivity to be validated and certified by a database vendor as part of an integrated cluster offering.

Available today, Voltaire's InfiniBand Database Kit enables customers and solution providers to rapidly deploy InfiniBand DB2 Linux clusters.