SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Voltaire
Ltd. NASDAQ: VOLT, a leading provider of scale-out data center
fabrics, today introduced the Voltaire Vantage™ 6048, a low-latency,
high-performance Layer 2/3 top-of-rack switch optimized for cloud
computing.
“Virtual layer 2 switching is key to the new consolidated data center
network”
The switch features 48 ports of 10GbE line rate connectivity in a
space-saving 1U device. It provides non-blocking switching throughput of
960 Gbps, low latency and the industry’s lowest power consumption of 6.3
watts/port to deliver superior application performance as well as data
center efficiency. The Vantage 6048 offers more CEE-compliant features
than any other switch available in the industry, including Congestion
Notification IEEE
802.1Qau to assure end to end congestion management and isolation
between applications that co-exist in the data center.
The combination of the Voltaire Vantage 8500 Layer 2 core switches and
new Vantage 6048 switches enables customers to build flat data center
fabrics of more than 3,400 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports with non-blocking,
lossless switch fabric capacity of 69.12 Terabits per second. Voltaire
Unified Fabric Manager™ UFM™ software orchestrates the fabric as a
single logical switch, enforcing fabric-wide service policies, providing
real-time fabric flow level monitoring, and simplifying fabric
administration across many physical and virtual switching elements.
In addition, using UFM software, data centers can orchestrate virtual
machine VM connectivity persistency, assuring that the traffic flow
for each VM is shaped, rate limited and policied throughout the entire
fabric. UFM software enables VM connectivity mobility without any human
intervention in the fabric networking configuration.
“Virtual layer 2 switching is key to the new consolidated data center
network,” said Lucinda Borovick, research vice president, Datacenter
Networks, IDC. “The ability to combine high density at a compelling
price point, coupled with a full set of data center bridging DCB
capabilities positions the network for future requirements while
enabling investment protection.”
“Networking for the cloud requires a new class of scalability,
performance and efficiency over a shared fabric with automated fabric
management capabilities,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing,
Voltaire. “Using the Vantage 6048 switch in combination with Voltaire
UFM software, businesses relying on cloud architectures can attain a
standard-based, modular infrastructure that can scale linearly from a
single server rack to 100s of racks with the same hardware and software
building blocks.”
Voltaire will showcase the Vantage 6048 switch in booth 638 at VMworld,
August 30-September 2, 2010, in San Francisco.
The Voltaire Vantage 6048 will be available in October 2010. More
information is available at www.voltaire.com/6048.
More information about the Voltaire Vantage 8500 and UFM software is
available at www.voltaire.com/Vantage
_8500 and www.voltaire.com/UFM.
About Voltaire
Voltaire NASDAQ: VOLT is a leading provider of scale-out computing
fabrics for data centers, high performance computing and cloud
environments. Voltaire’s family of server and storage fabric switches
and advanced management software improve performance of mission-critical
applications, increase efficiency and reduce costs through
infrastructure consolidation and lower power consumption. Used by more
than 30 percent of the Fortune 100 and other premier organizations
across many industries, including many of the TOP500 supercomputers,
Voltaire products are included in server and blade offerings from Bull,
Fujitsu, HP, IBM, NEC and SGI. Founded in 1997, Voltaire is
headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel and Chelmsford, Massachusetts. More
information is available at www.voltaire.com
or by calling 1-800-865-8247.
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