Storageflex partners with Voltaire to launch Infiniband Switch 

 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada January 18, 2010

A Canadian manufacturer of high performance, high availability storage products and a Canadian Federal Government Approved NMSO (National Master Standing Offer) Supplier, announced today that it has partnered with Voltaire Inc to provide scale-out computing fabrics for data centers, high performance computing and cloud environments.
 
“Today, many high performance data centers take advantage of InfiniBand-based interconnect support incorporated into leading ISV applications and MPI-based applications. Voltaire InfiniBand interconnects eliminate I/O bottlenecks, allowing these HPC applications to run faster and more efficiently" said Paul Chan, Vice President, Storageflex Inc. “InfiniBand is a high performance, switched fabric interconnect standard for servers. The technology is widely deployed worldwide in server clusters ranging from two to thousands of nodes.  InfiniBand has become the standard interconnect of choice for high performance computing (HPC) environments and is becoming the preferred standard in enterprise data centers requiring a high performance fabric.”
  
About Storageflex Inc
Storageflex Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of high performance,high availability enterprise storage products since 1983. The company pioneered many of the IT industry's first tape backup and RAID Systems through the 1980's. Storageflex's HFD DiskArray set the standards by which most of the IT industry's RAID Systems are designed. Storageflex Inc. sells its products through an international network of high-profile distributors and resellers in more than 30 countries around the world.
  
About Voltiare Inc
Voltaire delivers 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.
 
Voltaire allows customers to choose the fabric that is right for them – InfiniBand or 10 Gb Ethernet – based on their application requirements and individual technology practices, without sacrificing scalability and performance.