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Solutions Available Immediately Through Voltaire OEM Partners and Resellers: Voltaire, a leading provider of grid backbone solutions for data centers, today announced that its InfiniBand products have achieved Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g and Oracle Enterprise Linux certifications using OpenFabrics Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over InfiniBand. Voltaire solutions bring accelerated performance and scalability to Oracle Database clusters and the company is one of the first to announce full InfiniBand support for Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g. Oracle’s Linux development group has developed RDS as an open source project. RDS is a high bandwidth, low latency communication protocol that can dramatically improve the performance of cluster interconnect intensive applications. The availability of RDS along with InfiniBand fabric supporting software, from the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED), represents a major milestone for Oracle Real Application Clusters and Linux users. “Working together with Voltaire to provide InfiniBand support for Oracle Real Application Clusters is an important step forward to helping our customers realize faster performance and greater scalability for their database and Linux environments,” said Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President, Oracle. Voltaire is also a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork. Oracle Enterprise Linux is a key component of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program, which provides enterprise-class support for Linux. Available as open source, Oracle Enterprise Linux is fully compatible — both source and binary — with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Oracle Enterprise Linux can also be freely distributed, enabling partners to easily create low-cost solutions for their users. The Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program has been adopted by more than 2,000 leading organizations. “According to our research, some of the key drivers for InfiniBand adoption include the increased use of high-performance computing in enterprise data centers, scaleout database environments, and shared and virtualized I/O,” said Steve Josselyn, Research Director, Global Enterprise Server Solutions at IDC. IDC predicts the market for InfiniBand switch ports will increase at a 47.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next five years from $95.1 million in 2006 to $656.3 million by 2011. The CAGR for InfiniBand host channel adapter revenue is forecasted at 35% with revenue reaching $279.7 million in 2011. Combined, this represents a total market for InfiniBand of greater than $900 million by 2011. “This solution expands customers’ ability to run across larger clusters improving the performance and efficiency of large-scale data sets,” said Asaf Somekh, Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Voltaire. “Our joint customers with Oracle in industries ranging from financial services to life sciences to digital media are seeing the performance of their applications increase by as much as 50% versus previous configurations based on Ethernet.” “Enterprise customers need scalable data center solutions that strike a balance between performance and cost to support their mission-critical computing clusters,” said Mike Nikolaiev, Director, ISS Performance Engineering, Technology Solutions Group, HP. “Customers using HP ProLiant or HP BladeSystem servers with Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect technology to run their Oracle RACs or Unbreakable Linux achieve significant performance gains and scalability without breaking their budget.” Availability Voltaire solutions for Oracle Real Application Clusters are available through select Voltaire OEM partners and resellers or by calling 800-865-8247.