* Automatic provisioning of virtual and physical fabric resources in dynamic data centers and cloud environments,
* End to end enforcement of security and isolation on the fabric across virtual and physical elements,
* A unique engine that translates business requirements to data center fabric policies, in real time, according to application needs, and
* Correlation of monitored data to application/service level enabling quick and effective fabric analysis.
Voltaire will host a live webinar, "Scale-out Ethernet for the Virtualized Data Center" on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. ET (4:00 pm GMT) which will show the solution's capabilities in more detail. To register, please visit www.voltaire.com/virtualized_datacenter.
Introducing VMA Software for Ethernet
Voltaire also introduced Voltaire Messaging Accelerator (VMA) software for Ethernet fabrics. VMA software provides seamless Ethernet IP multicast connectivity, with transport latency (RTT/2) as low as 3.5 microseconds and application-to-application latency as low as 7 microseconds.
VMA boosts performance of high frequency trading applications, including NYSE Technologies' Data Fabric, 29West LBM, RTI DDS and others developed in-house, cutting latency by as much as 80 percent and increasing application throughput per server, as compared to applications running on traditional Ethernet interconnect networks. VMA software runs on Voltaire Vantage switches and other industry-standard 10 GbE Ethernet networks and requires no changes to the application.
In a recent benchmark conducted by Voltaire and 29West, it was measured that application-to-application latency was consistently less than 10 microseconds under a broad range of message sizes and message rates that are typical to high-frequency trading environments. By comparison, the latency of alternative 10 GbE offload solutions is 2X slower. A full report on the benchmark is available for download today and a new webinar detailing the solution can be viewed at www.voltaire.com/29West_webinar.
