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Voltaire, the leader in interconnect solutions for high performance grid computing, today announced that its joint solution with Terrascale, Supermicro and Western Digital was named “Best Database Solution” in the Product Excellence Awards at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo held last week in San Francisco. The award recognizes the most innovative and effective database solution for users of Linux and open source showcased on the exhibit floor. The joint solution, called TerraGrid DBScale, provides a scalable high performance data management infrastructure within a clustered Linux environment. This is the industry’s first solution to solve file I/O problems for database clusters using industry standard platforms and technologies such as InfiniBand, iSER (iSCSI RDMA), Serial ATA (SATA) and Linux. “We are extremely pleased our high performance, standards-based data management solution has been recognized by one of the largest and most prestigious events in the Linux community,” said Arun Jain, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. “Working with our partners and industry standards such as InfiniBand, iSCSI and SATA, we can now provide unprecedented performance and scalability for database users leveraging the Linux platform.” “This collaborative exercise by four leaders in innovation has vividly demonstrated that close integration of best-of-breed commodity hardware and software technologies can deliver real world benefits previously attainable only on expensive proprietary platforms,” said Gautham Sastri, president & CEO of Terrascale. “We look forward to delivering this product to customers that have long been clamoring for enterprise-class performance and scalability at rational price points.” TerraGrid DBScale is tuned for leading database applications such as IBM DB2, Oracle and MySQL and is ideally suited to improve performance of data intensive applications eliminating I/O bottlenecks using native InfiniBand storage. TerraGrid DBScale features: Voltaire InfiniBand-based interconnect solutions with iSCSI RDMA for high performance storage connectivity, Terrascale’s TerraGrid parallel I/O platform, a commercial software solution based on iSCSI and object storage that transforms standard Linux file systems such as ext2 into scalable parallel file systems, Supermicro Mass Storage Server chassis solution featuring next generation Intel 64-bit Xeon processors and PCI Express, and WD Raptor™ SATA hard drives with enterprise-class speed and reliability supporting tagged command queuing (TCQ) for high performance in random I/O database environments. The LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards were managed in conjunction with LinuxWorld Magazine, and winners were selected by a panel of judges comprised of respected industry experts. The judges included: Kevin Bedell, editor in chief for LinuxWorld Magazine; Bill Claybrooke, industry analyst at New River Linux; Gary Hein, vice president and service director for Application Platform Strategies at the Burton Group; Sam Hiser, marketing project co-lead for OpenOffice.org; Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Linux author, consultant and trainer; Robin "Roblimo" Miller, editor in chief for OSDN; Paul Nowak, CIO for the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE); Brian Proffitt, managing editor for Linux Today, LinuxPlanet and JustLinux; Stacey Quandt, industry analyst at Quandt Analytics; Bill Roth, senior technical evangelist at E.phiphany; Doc Searls, senior editor for Linux Journal; Leon Shiman, president of Shiman Associates and member of the Board of Directors for X.org; John Terpstra, mentor on the Samba Project; James Turner, senior editor for LinuxWorld Magazine; Maria Winslow, open source business analyst; and John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software Institute.