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Voltaire's sales plummet in Q1

Steve Loughran

Maybe infiniband isn't that important 

Posted Friday 8th May 2009 19:57 GMT

IT Angle

Maybe the reason that IBM and HP arent buying it is that they've looked at Hadoopc clustering and looked forward to what will happen when the off-node datarates are 10GB, and you don't really need infiniband -or indeed SAN- in your datacentre.

Lior Paster

It's not just bandwidth 

Posted Saturday 9th May 2009 13:05 GMT

IB provides very low latency that the Financial Services firms, HPC, and Research always needs. 10Gig is orders of magnitude "slower" although it is getting better.

Also, IB is still about 50% cheaper then 10Gig. If you consider that IB has X4 bandwidth, then IB is 80-90% cheaper per GB the 10Gig.

Voltaire is well positioned for both IB and 10Gig market and now that Cisco is burned, Volt has a great opportunity to work with big players.