Voltaire Powers Q-layer Virtual Private Data Center

Voltaire Ltd. has been selected by
Q-layer, a leading provider of data center and storage virtualization
software, as the fabric platform for Q-layer’s Virtual Private Data
Center solution.

Q-layer is combining its innovative virtualization management software with VMware
ESX and Voltaire’s InfiniBand-based switching platform to deliver
unprecedented performance, scalability, and efficiency for service
providers.

The Q-layer solution enables data center managers to provide their
customers with a simple, self-service portal for data center
provisioning. Data center managers can also integrate additional
virtual appliances into the Q-layer Virtual Private Data Center, to
enable simple end-user provisioning of any service provided in the data
center.

Intergenia, a leading hosting provider in Germany with over 20,000
servers under management, is one of Q-layer’s first customers and has
selected a Voltaire unified fabric for its Q-layer environment.

"We have standardized our InfiniBand infrastructure on Voltaire
because of its ease-of- management, high-performance and cost
effectiveness," said Jochen Berger, CTO of Intergenia. "We use
InfiniBand both for storage I/O and network I/O which greatly
simplifies our network design."

"Many data centers are implementing server virtualization products,
but even with server virtualization in place, service providers are
still faced with the expense and complexity associated with the
provisioning, configuration, integration, and maintenance of hardware
appliances, storage and networking functions," said Niko Nelissen, Vice
President, Business Development at Q-layer. "By integrating Voltaire’s
Grid Backbone™ hardware and software, we can further increase the
efficiency and performance of our software solution, running on top of
a unified fabric infrastructure – creating competitive differentiation
for our customers."

Q-layer

Voltaire Ltd.