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posted on 28 May 2008 13:37

Wednesday May 28, 9:28 am ET - BILLERICA, Mass. and HERZELIYA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT - News), a leading provider of grid backbone solutions for data centers, today announced that it is working with LSI Corporation to cross-certify the company’s InfiniBand-based storage systems with Voltaire switches and software.

“LSI is focused on delivering leading storage technologies to address the needs of high-performance data centers,” said Julie Ryan, director of alliances, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. “We are pleased to work with Voltaire, a leader in the InfiniBand market, to bring solutions to market that will improve the scalability and performance of enterprise storage systems.”

As part of the certification process, several companies representing industries including financial services, media and entertainment and telecommunications are evaluating the interoperability and performance increase available through the combination of LSI and Voltaire offerings.

“Using native InfiniBand storage in the data center can bring tremendous price/performance improvements to solutions such as clustered databases and digital media applications,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of strategic alliances, Voltaire. “We look forward to working with LSI to introduce these solutions to our joint customers.”

“Native InfiniBand storage is gaining momentum in the data center. The factors driving this growth are demand for high capacity storage systems with high bandwidths and ever-evolving compute-intensive business needs,” said Arun Taneja, analyst, The Taneja Group. “InfiniBand coupled with modular, scalable storage can build a truly adaptable storage platform that can match even unforeseen future demands. The combination of Voltaire InfiniBand and LSI storage is a promising solution for the storage requirements of next generation data centers.”

About Voltaire

Voltaire (NASDAQ: VOLT - News) designs and develops server and storage switching and software solutions that enable high-performance grid computing within the data center. Voltaire refers to its server and storage switching and software solutions as the Voltaire Grid Backbone™. Voltaire’s products leverage InfiniBand technology and include director-class switches, multi-service switches, fixed-port configuration switches, Ethernet and Fibre Channel routers and standards-based driver and management software. Voltaire’s solutions have been sold to a wide range of end customers including governmental, research and educational organizations, as well as enterprises in the manufacturing, oil and gas, entertainment, life sciences and financial services industries.

Founded in 1997, Voltaire Ltd. is headquartered in Herzeliya, Israel, and has its U.S. headquarters in Billerica, Massachusetts. More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}