Voltaire, Platform Computing Partner to Provide Cloud Computing Solution

Voltaire Ltd., a provider of scale-out data center fabrics, and Platform Computing, a provider of cluster-, grid- and cloud-management software, announced a partnership to provide optimized and automated management of data center resources in virtualized and cloud computing environments.

Integration of Voltaire (News - Alert) Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) software and Platform LSF, helps intelligent workload scheduling and resource allocation to extend from the application layer to the network fabric layer. The combined solution enables high performance computing, data center and cloud computing facilities to support 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," stated Steve Conway, research vice president in IDC's (News - Alert) 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 data center virtualization and cloud computing technologies," explains 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 data center across the entire network for more efficient IT operations," Purvis added.

"The ability to automate resources becomes increasingly critical in scale-out and cloud computing environments," comments Asaf Somekh (News - Alert), 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 data centers and cloud computing environments that may be running tens to hundreds of applications."

Voltaire's Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) is a powerful platform for managing scale-out Ethernet and InfiniBand computing environments. UFM enables data center operators to efficiently provision, monitor and operate the modern data center fabric. UFM boosts application performance and ensures that the fabric is up and running at all times. 

UFM uses an innovative application-centric approach to bridge the gap between servers, applications and fabric elements. UFM's fabric model allows users to manage fabrics as a set of business related entities such as time critical applications or services. UFM's management infrastructure allows fabric monitoring and performance optimization on the application-logical level rather than just at the individual port or device level.