InfiniCon Systems to Bring InfiniBand Solutions to the Intel Enterprise Server Acceleration Alliance
Companies to Deliver Pre-Configured and Certified Solutions to HPC
and Database Clustering Markets
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 14, 2004—
InfiniCon Systems, the premier provider of clustering and I/O
virtualization solutions for next-generation server networks,
announced today it has been selected as one of the five initial
companies to participate in Intel(R)'s Enterprise Server Acceleration
Alliance (ESAA). InfiniCon will work with Intel to provide
pre-certified InfiniBand solutions to select members of Intel's server
channel network.
Intel's ESAA program focuses on removing the certification
barriers to enterprise server adoption and enabling quick deployment
of Intel-based enterprise servers and "solution building blocks" such
as networking components, storage, and software into real world
applications. Intel and InfiniCon - which develops InfiniBand-based
switching systems and management software that enable fabric and grid
models of computing - will cooperate to certify pre-configured
Intel-based enterprise server platforms that will initially target
both high performance computing (HPC) and database clustering
environments.
The first cooperative ESAA "recipe" offering from Intel and
InfiniCon, slated for June 2004 availability, will address the
burgeoning HPC market opportunity that has emerged for standard,
high-volume Intel-based servers and the high-bandwidth, low-latency
InfiniBand architecture. Intel plans to immediately launch
ESAA-approved configurations via the ESAA program, which consists of a
select group of worldwide strategic channel customers and independent
software and hardware vendors.
InfiniCon has already achieved notable market success in
delivering InfiniBand-based HPC clusters into production environments
consisting of both Xeon(TM) and Itanium(TM) processor technology to
leading universities and government/research organizations.
"Through the Intel(R) Enterprise Server Acceleration Alliance and
collaboration with InfiniCon and other leading independent vendors,
customers will be able to confidently implement pre-certified server
stacks and proven InfiniBand-based solution stacks into the enterprise
at a lower total cost of ownership and deploy fewer resources to do
so," stated Jeff Richardson, general manager of Intel's Enterprise
Products Services Division. "By optimizing Intel's leading server
platforms with InfiniBand as the interconnect, we will provide users
with more power and more value for their IT investments, at a
price-to-performance ratio that gets better with each new processor
and server generation."
About InfiniCon Systems
Leveraging the breakthrough advances of the InfiniBand
architecture, InfiniCon Systems offers a complete systems solution for
enabling data centers to migrate to a fabric/grid model of computing.
Our award-winning InfinIO product family provides the dynamic
infrastructure required for designing and managing highly scalable,
highly available clustered server environments that integrate
seamlessly into today's Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks. For
additional information, visit www.infinicon.com, or contact us at
info@infinicon.com.
About the Intel(R) Enterprise Server Acceleration Alliance
For additional information visit www.intel.com\go\esaa.
Contact:
InfiniCon Systems, Inc.
Lou Martelli, 610-233-4835
lmartelli@infinicon.com
or
LVA Communications
Joanne Hogue, 410-642-3344
joanne@lva.com
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