Voltaire today announced an open ecosystem of industry-leading solution partners to accelerate adoption of low latency, scale-out Ethernet fabrics for enterprise data centers and cloud computing environments.

“Voltaire’s approach to scale-out Ethernet fabrics is open and based on industry standards so customers can use best-of-breed solutions across their data centers,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. “By building an ecosystem of industry-leading partners with expertise that spans across compute, network, storage access and virtualization technologies, we can provide the most scalable, highest performance, lowest latency and lowest cost 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution for customers.”

Voltaire Vantage Ethernet switches are based on Layer 2 core converged enhanced Ethernet (CEE) technology that enables customers to benefit from a far more scalable, lower latency, and virtualized 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric, with lower costs, power consumption and simplified management.

Voltaire’s open, global partner ecosystem spans a broad spectrum of technology partners that interoperate with Voltaire’s Ethernet switches to deliver an end-to-end, seamless solution for customers based on open, industry standards and platforms.  Voltaire has formed technology and solution development relationships with industry leading compute, network, storage access and virtualization technology providers including: VMware, Red Hat, Platform Computing, NYSE Technologies, NetApp, Mellanox Technologies, Intel, IBM, HP, Fulcrum Microsystems, Cluster Resources, Chelsio Communications and BLADE Network Technologies.

See comments from more industry leaders at http://www.voltaire.com/vantage_ecosystem including:

·        Shekar Ayyar, vice president, Infrastructure Alliances, VMware

·        Navin Thadani, senior director, Virtualization Business, Red Hat

·        Tripp Purvis, vice president of business development, Platform Computing

·        Conor Allen, Head of R&D, NYSE Technologies

·        Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing, NetApp

·        John Monson, vice president of marketing, Mellanox Technologies

·        Doug Balog, vice president, IBM Systems & Technology Group

·        Ed Turkel, manager, business development, Scalable Computing and Infrastructure, HP

·        Mike Zeile, president and COO, Fulcrum Microsystems

·        Michael Jackson, president, Cluster Resources

·        Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO, Chelsio Communications

·        Vikram Mehta, president and CEO, BLADE Network Technologies

“10 Gigabit Ethernet networks play an important role in virtualized data center architectures,” said Shekar Ayyar, vice president, infrastructure alliances, VMware.  “Voltaire’s scale-out Ethernet fabrics complement VMware vSphere™ 4 to deliver simplified, high-performance connectivity that enables customers to build internal clouds and deliver IT as a service.”

“Customers are increasingly using scale-out infrastructures in their data centers to drive higher application performance at reduced cost and increased power efficiency,” said Ed Turkel, manager, business development, Scalable Computing and Infrastructure, HP.  “HP server and blade platforms, combined with the Voltaire Vantage 8500 Layer 2 core switch, provide a low latency, cost-efficient 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution for scale-out environments.”

“As virtualization continues to proliferate in the data center, more and more customers are choosing to consolidate their networking and storage traffic on 10 Gigabit Ethernet,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing at NetApp. “This delivers improved data center efficiency and helps customers simplify their infrastructure. We look forward to working with Voltaire to provide market-leading 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions based on NetApp® FAS systems and Voltaire Vantage switches to meet this growing demand.”

“Customers look to IBM for enterprise cloud and scale-out data center solutions that are efficient, powerful and flexible,” said Doug Balog, vice president, IBM Systems & Technology Group. “Combining Voltaire Vantage 8500 switches with IBM BladeCenter, iDataPlex and System x servers enable a scale-out environment for the low latency, low power and low cost requirements of today's data center.”

“Virtualization technology is the foundation for the next-generation operating system for scale-out enterprise datacenters,” said Navin Thadani, senior director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat. “Voltaire’s open, standards-based approach to low latency, scale-out Ethernet fabrics is well aligned with Red Hat’s open approach to datacenter virtualization with integrated virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and through the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio. These solutions aim to offer scalability and cost-savings benefits to customers and feature the incorporation of KVM virtualization technology.”