ITGumbo: spicing IT up

News:
In the past two weeks, Voltaire, Ltd. has received significant media coverage for being listed at the top of Deloitte's Fast 500 EMEA list of fastest growing companies and for its recent partnering with Tibco Software, Inc.

Background:
Founded in 1997, Voltaire Ltd. is headquartered in Israel and is fast becoming the leader in high performance grid computing solutions. Voltaire offers storage switching Grid Backbone products based on Infiniband to help improve the speed of information in data centers and HPC environments. According to a company description, "Voltaire's products leverage InfiniBand technology and include director-class switches, multi-service switches, fixed-port configuration switches, Ethernet and Fibre Channel routers and standards-based driver and management software." With a rapidly expanding client base, Voltaire has offered its solutions primarily in "enterprise, governmental, research and educational organizations."

What is InfiniBand?
According to a definition on the InfiniBand Trade Association website,

"InfiniBand is a pervasive, low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect which requires low processing overhead and is ideal to carry multiple traffic types (clustering, communications, storage, management) over a single connection."

The site additionally explains that "InfiniBand Architecture is an industry standard, channel-based, switched fabric, interconnect architecture for servers. InfiniBand architecture changes the way servers are built, deployed, and managed."

Analysis: Infinite possibilities for Voltaire

It's no secret that Internet use by companies and consumers require more bandwidth for faster-processing and InfiniBand is currently the top technology available to them. With Internet applications containing more and businesses relying on applications more, InfiniBand has been deployed on supercomputers in industries ranging from government and financial services to entertainment.

InfiniBand's continued expansion in the near future means continued good prospects for Voltaire, whose products are based on the technology. As part of its effort to help maintain this trend and make sure CIOs and data center professionals, among other IT professionals, fully understand it and embrace it, Voltaire is on the steering committee of the InfiniBand Trade Association.

Of course, Voltaire's main reason for playing an active role in the industry is to get its name out and sell its Grid BackBone software. One of its most popular solutions is the Multiple Grid Director, which allows switches to be "interconnected to form very large high performance clusters and grids that can grow into the thousands of nodes with 'pay as you grow' scalability." Solutions such as this and GridVision Enterprise, have helped form the "backbone" of Voltaire's 50,612% growth in the past 5 years, propelling it to be the fastest growing company in Deloitte's Fast 500 EMEA.

Voltaire's deal with Tibco Software last week "to deliver a high-throughput, low-latency messaging solution for advanced electronic trading environments" in the financial services industry helps ensure that the company will continue to grow at an above average rate and promises to make it one of the leaders in expanding bandwidth solutions in the future.

Additional Resources:
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Sidebar: Is InfiniBand Ready for a Comeback?

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