Vantage Ethernet Partner Ecosystem

Accelerating the adoption of low latency, scale-out Ethernet fabrics for data centers

Voltaire’s open, global partner ecosystem spans a broad spectrum of technology partners that interoperate with Voltaire’s Vantage Ethernet switches to deliver an end-to-end, seamless solution for customers based on open, industry standards and platforms.  Voltaire has formed technology and solution development relationships with the following compute, network, storage access and virtualization technology providers.

To learn how to become a Voltaire partner, contact us at partner@voltaire.com.

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"10 Gigabit Ethernet networks play an important role in virtualized data center architectures. Voltaire’s scale-out Ethernet fabrics complement VMware vSphere™ 4 to deliver simplified, high-performance connectivity that enables customers to build internal clouds and deliver IT as a service.” 

Shekar Ayyar, Vice President, Infrastructure Alliances, VMware

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“Virtualization technology is the foundation for the next-generation operating system for scale-out enterprise datacenters. Voltaire's open, standards-based approach to low latency, scale-out Ethernet fabrics is well aligned with Red Hat's open approach to datacenter virtualization with integrated virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and through the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio. These solutions aim to offer scalability and cost-savings benefits to customers and feature the incorporation of KVM virtualization technology."

Navin Thadani, Senior Director, Virtualization Business, Red Hat

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“The combination of Platform LSF and Voltaire’s UFM software over low latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabrics will enable our mutual customers to experience new levels of performance and efficiency for managing data center virtualization and cloud computing technologies. 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.”

Tripp Purvis, Vice President, Business Development, Platform Computing

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“By combining NYSE Technologies’ Data Fabric™ with Voltaire's 10GigE solutions, we’re delivering breakthrough performance in an Ethernet based messaging system. This combination dramatically accelerates the performance of automated trading and market data applications and opens the platform to broader application as an Enterprise Messaging bus.”

Conor Allen, Head of R&D, NYSE Technologies

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“As virtualization continues to proliferate in the data center, more and more customers are choosing to consolidate their networking and storage traffic on 10 Gigabit Ethernet. This delivers improved data center efficiency and helps customers simplify their infrastructure. We look forward to working with Voltaire to provide market-leading 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions based on NetApp® FAS systems and Voltaire Vantage switches to meet this growing demand.”

Patrick Rogers, Vice President of Solutions Marketing, NetApp

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“Mellanox 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions deliver the highest utilization and efficiency to enable data centers to optimize performance, scalability and return on investment. Our ConnectX Ethernet NICs and Voltaire Vantage 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches offer significant throughput and low-latency advantages for enterprise-class and database applications for scale-out and virtualized server environments.”

John Monson, Vice President of Marketing, Mellanox Technologies

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“Customers look to IBM for enterprise cloud and scale-out data center solutions that are efficient, powerful and flexible. Combining Voltaire Vantage 8500 switches with IBM BladeCenter, iDataPlex and  System x servers enable a scale-out environment for the low latency, low power and low cost requirements of today's data center.”

Doug Balog, Vice President, IBM Systems & Technology Group

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“Customers are increasingly using scale-out infrastructures in their data centers to drive higher application performance at reduced cost and increased power efficiency. HP server and blade platforms, combined with the Voltaire Vantage 8500 Layer 2 core switch, provide a low latency, cost-efficient 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution for scale-out environments.”

Ed Turkel, Manager, Business Development, Scalable Computing and Infrastructure, HP

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"Ethernet continues to evolve to bring new levels of InfiniBand-like performance, lower latency and greater efficiency to data center networking. The Voltaire Vantage switch takes advantage of the most advanced data center bridging features of our FocalPoint 10G Ethernet switch silicon and offers additional intelligence for switch-to-switch connections for added fabric scalability."

Mike Zeile, President and COO, Fulcrum Microsystems

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“Voltaire’s Unified Fabric Manager™ analyzes and optimizes the network infrastructure, enabling administrators to make changes according to application needs. The Adaptive Operating Environment™ powered by Moab® builds upon UFM’s foundation to intelligently automate infrastructure adaptation and workload allocation in context of resources, conditions and application needs as well as service and organizational priorities. The joint Voltaire and Adaptive Computing solution provides the ideal infrastructure management and intelligent automation environment for data center consolidation and private cloud initiatives.”

Michael Jackson, President, Adaptive Computing

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"Using Chelsio’s Unified 10 Gb Ethernet adapters, high performance data center customers are reaping the benefits of converging LAN, storage and compute traffic over offloaded 10 Gb Ethernet. We’re very pleased to partner with Voltaire to deliver ultra high performance, converged networks with much lower TCO to our mutual customers."

Kianoosh Naghshineh, President and CEO, Chelsio

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“Next generation data centers and enterprise clouds need a high-performance, low-cost and low power-consuming fabric in order to efficiently scale out. The Voltaire Vantage 8500 Layer 2 core switch extends the value of BLADE’s RackSwitch top-of-rack switches and embedded Ethernet switches for HP and IBM blade server systems to enable high-performance, virtualized and efficient data centers.”

Vikram Mehta, President and CEO, BLADE Network Technologies