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Business/Industry
Company
design and develop server and storage switching and software
solutions that enable high-performance grid computing within
the data center. As the computing requirements of enterprises
and institutions continue to expand, the demand for data
center solutions that can efficiently and cost-effectively
scale and manage computing resources is dramatically
increasing. Company's solutions allow one or more discrete
computing clusters to be linked together as a single unified
computing resource, or fabric. It create this unified fabric
by integrating high-performance switching with dynamic
management and provisioning software. Company refer its server
and storage switching and software solutions as the Voltaire
Grid BackboneTM. Its Grid Backbone provides a scalable and
cost-effective way for customers to manage the growth of their
data center computing requirements.
Company
have significant expertise in developing switching and routing
platforms based on the InfiniBand architecture as well as grid
management software. InfiniBand is an industry-standard
architecture that provides specifications for high-performance
interconnects.
Company
offer 24 to 288 port server and storage switches that benefit
from the high performance and low latency characteristics of
the InfiniBand architecture, and also integrate with Ethernet
and Fibre Channel architectures. Its management software
solutions provide fabric management, performance monitoring,
application acceleration and grid provisioning functionality.
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Company's
main products
Grid
Computing Switches : Its Grid DirectorTM
director-class switches and Grid SwitchTM edge switches are
used to create low latency, high-bandwidth connections of up
to 20 Gigabit/second to servers and storage devices.
GridVision
Management and Host Software : Management tools that
provide information on the topology of the grid, configuration
of the individual switches within the grid and real-time
monitoring of performance.
Multi-Protocol
Routers : Routers enable customers to consolidate
InfiniBand-, Fibre Channel- and Ethernet-based servers,
network and storage connectivity into a single high-performing
fabric.
Host
Channel Adapters : Host channel adapters, or HCAs,
provide connectivity to high performance InfiniBand-based
grids, storage and networking devices.
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Business/Industry
outlook
Data
warehouse/Data center business is growing at rapid pace and
expected to keep or rather extend its pace in future, this
growth will in turn will create more and more demand for
switching, networking (grid computing) products and solutions.
IDC,
an independent
research company, estimates that the market for InfiniBand
host channel adapters will grow from $62 million in 2006
to $181 million in 2010. Based on these estimates, market for
InfiniBand-based products
will grow from $157 million in 2006 to $649 million in 2010. Management software refers
to the software used
to provision and monitor the grid and is estimated by IDC to
grow from $355 million in 2006 to $758
million in 2010. Messaging software optimizes specific
application types to maximize performance and is
estimated by IDC to grow from $679 million in 2006 to $793
million in 2010. Based on these estimates the overall grid
computing market will grow from $3.9 billion in 2006 to $6.9
billion by 2010.
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