Integration of Voltaire UFM software and Platform LSF enables more efficient management and operations of scale-out HPC centers and cloud implementations

HAMBURG, June 1 -- Voltaire Ltd., a leading provider of scale-out datacenter fabrics, and Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, today announced a partnership to deliver optimized and automated management of datacenter resources, in virtualized and cloud computing environments.

Through the integration of Voltaire Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) software and Platform LSF, intelligent workload scheduling and resource allocation extends from the application layer all the way down to the network fabric layer. The combined solution enables high performance computing, datacenter and cloud computing facilities to more easily support constantly changing resource requirements and workloads inherent in those environments.

"HPC is a promising early adopter market for cloud computing, with some substantial cloud initiatives under way, mostly on the private cloud side," said Steve Conway, research vice president in IDC's High Performance Computing group. "The partnership between Platform and Voltaire aims to provide organizations with the ability to optimize HPC data resources and manage intensive applications across virtualized and cloud computing environments."

"The combination of Platform LSF and Voltaire UFM software over InfiniBand enables our mutual customers to experience new levels of performance and efficiency for managing HPC datacenter virtualization and cloud computing technologies," said Tripp Purvis, vice president, business development, Platform Computing. "The integration of Platform LSF with Voltaire UFM software extends Platform LSF's ability to optimize the allocation of resources in the datacenter across the entire network for more efficient IT operations."

"The ability to automate resources becomes increasingly critical in scale-out and cloud computing environments," said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. "Combining the intelligence of Voltaire's UFM software with the dynamic provisioning capabilities of Platform LSF, enables customers to fully automate network configuration management and optimize the network. This meets the heavy needs of HPC datacenters and cloud computing environments that may be running tens to hundreds of applications."

More information about Voltaire UFM software is available at www.voltaire.com/UFM.

More information about Platform LSF is available at http://www.platform.com/workload-management/high-performance-computing.

Availability

The integrated Voltaire-Platform solution will be available in July through Voltaire and Platform resellers and channel partners.

About Platform Computing

Platform Computing is the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software -- serving more than 2,000 of the world's most demanding organizations. For 17 years, Platform's workload and resource management solutions have delivered IT responsiveness and lower costs for enterprise and HPC applications. Platform has strategic relationships with Cray, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, and SAS. Visit www.platform.com.

About Voltaire

Voltaire (NASDAQ: VOLT) is a leading provider of scale-out computing fabrics for datacenters, 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, HP, IBM, NEC, SGI and Sun. Founded in 1997, Voltaire is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel, and Chelmsford, Mass. More information is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247.

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Source: Platform Computing Corp.; Voltaire Ltd.