The InfiniBand Pass-Thru Module and Host Channel Adapter Expansion Card from Voltaire provides the ideal solution for high bandwidth, low latency connectivity for IBM's blade server solutions using the IBM BladeCenter-H. Combined with the external InfiniBand, Ethernet and Fibre Channel switching capabilities available in Voltaire's director-class multi-service switches, users can fully exploit the benefits of IBM's blade server architecture.

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Voltaire is a leading provider of server and storage switching and software solutions that enable unified fabrics for data centers. Unified fabrics provide seamless, high performance networking services between InfiniBand fabrics, Fibre Channel SANs and Ethernet LANs over a single high performance fabric. Using Voltaire solutions for unified fabrics, data centers can receive the highest performance while simultaneously unifying, consolidating and virtualizing in the most efficient, cost effective way. By seamlessly combining industry standard InfiniBand technology with integrated Ethernet and Fibre Channel gateways, Grid Director switches provide a high bandwidth, low latency unified fabric for powering the world's largest and fastest high performance computing (HPC) systems and enterprise data centers.

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Learn about the many benefits of applying 10Gb Ethernet technology in the network and data center infrastructure from experts from Blade Network Technologies, NetXen and Broadcom. Tom Bradicich, Vice President and Fellow, IBM Systems and Technology Group moderates this informative discussion about blade servers and 10Gb technology.

Listen to a panel of energy efficiency and blade server experts share their experiences as research engineers, facilities managers, and power and cooling solutions providers. Learn how one data center manager obtained an energy savings of 67%. Hear advice on how moving to blade technology, right-sizing and re-structuring data center infrastructure, adding power monitoring software, and using virtualization technologies can help you reduce your data center power requirements.