Business Summary excerpt from SEC filing dated: July 26, 2007
We design and develop server and storage switching and software solutions that enable high-performance grid computing within the data center. As the computing requirements of enterprises and institutions continue to expand, the demand for data center solutions that can efficiently and cost-effectively scale and manage computing resources is dramatically increasing. Our solutions allow one or more discrete computing clusters to be linked together as a single unified computing resource, or fabric. We create this unified fabric by integrating high-performance switching with dynamic management and provisioning software. We refer to our server and storage switching and software solutions as the Voltaire Grid Backbone (tm). Our Grid Backbone provides a scalable and cost-effective way for customers to manage the growth of their data center computing requirements.
We have significant expertise in developing switching and routing platforms based on the InfiniBand architecture as well as grid management software. InfiniBand is an industry-standard architecture that provides specifications for high-performance interconnects. We offer 24 to 288 port server and storage switches that benefit from the high performance and low latency characteristics of the InfiniBand architecture, and also integrate with Ethernet and Fibre Channel architectures. Our management software solutions provide fabric management, performance monitoring, application acceleration and grid provisioning functionality.
We sell our products primarily through server original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, which incorporate our products into their solutions, as well as through value-added resellers and systems integrators. We currently have OEM relationships with International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM, Hewlett-Packard Company, or HP, Silicon Graphics, Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc. and NEC Corporation, five of the top ten global server vendors. To date, our solutions have been implemented in the data centers of over 250 end customers across a wide range of vertical markets and geographies.
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