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Voltaire, Terrascale, WD and Western Scientific Deliver Scalable Database Platform Solution for Oracle

Posted on: Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 09:00 CST

Now Available for Oracle, DBScale Solution Provides Unprecedented Database Transaction Performance Using High Performance, Low Cost Storage

Voltaire, the leader in interconnect solutions for high performance grid computing, today announced the availability of its joint scalable database platform solution with Terrascale, Western Digital and Western Scientific at Oracle Open World in Booth 202 in San Francisco, California.

Now available and tuned for Oracle Database 10g, the joint solution, called DBScale, provides a scalable high performance data management infrastructure using high performance, low cost storage and InfiniBand interconnect. This is the industry's only solution to solve file I/O problems for database clusters using industry standard platforms and technologies such as InfiniBand, iSER (iSCSI RDMA), Serial ATA (SATA) and Linux. The solution, which was awarded "Best Database Solution" at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo earlier this year, now provides leading performance and scalability for Oracle Database 10g at reasonable price points.

"The powerful combination of InfiniBand and WD Raptor(R) enterprise-class 10,000 RPM SATA hard drives brings a dramatic improvement in price and performance to Oracle and other data intensive applications," said Hubbert Smith, director of enterprise marketing, WD. "The solution delivers affordable, scalable storage, capable of handling random I/O workloads inherent in database clusters. DBScale is an innovative and collaborative solution that delivers enterprise-level scalability, manageability and performance previously possible only with expensive proprietary platforms."

"DBScale is a collaborative solution from four leaders in server, storage, networking and software that all specialize in delivering the greatest performance out of industry-standard elements," said Arun Jain, vice president of marketing, Voltaire. "Working with these partners and industry standards such as InfiniBand, iSCSI and SATA, we can now provide a solution for Oracle users that offers the simplicity of file-based storage, yet is much faster and higher performing than Fibre Channel-based SANs."

DBScale for Oracle features:

-- Voltaire InfiniBand-based interconnect solutions with iSCSI RDMA for high performance storage connectivity,

-- Terrascale's TerraGrid parallel I/O platform, a commercial software solution based on iSCSI and object storage that transforms standard Linux file systems such as ext2 into scalable parallel file systems,

-- WD Raptor(R) SATA hard drives with enterprise-class speed and reliability supporting tagged command queuing (TCQ) for high performance in random I/O database environments, and

-- Western Scientific Fusion series high-performance rack-mount servers and FusionSA(TM) Integrated Storage Servers, all powered by the latest 32/64-bit dual processor technology.

DBscale for Oracle is now available through Voltaire by calling 1-800-865-8247.

About Voltaire

Voltaire is the leader in interconnect solutions for high performance grid computing. Voltaire's InfiniBand-based interconnect solutions deliver significant return on investment to the data center by improving the performance and utilization of clustered databases, shared servers and storage. For HPC customers, Voltaire leads the industry with the largest switch to support clusters scaling from hundreds to thousands of nodes. With business headquarters near Boston, Massachusetts, Voltaire is certified by the IBTA's Integrator's List. More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247.

About Terrascale Technologies

Terrascale Technologies develops next-generation software solutions that enable existing serial applications to become high-performance, linearly scalable and massively parallel solutions that run on commodity Linux servers and networks. Terrascale's flagship product TerraGrid enables commodity compute and application clusters - running on standard networks - to achieve wire-speed I/O rates, without additional hardware and while co-existing with the rich suite of open source Linux software. Founded in 2002, Terrascale Technologies has offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Montreal, Canada. Terrascale also has European partnerships in Germany and the UK. For more information, please write to info@terrascale.com.

About WD

WD, one of the storage industry's pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company's core business produces reliable, high-performance hard drives that keep users' data close-at-hand and secure from loss. WD was founded in 1970. The company's storage products are marketed to leading systems manufacturers and selected resellers under Western Digital and WD brand names. Visit the Investor section of the company's Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

About Western Scientific

Western Scientific is a global provider of high-performance computing and storage solutions supplying an extensive line of HPC clusters, Storage networks, high-performance workstations and servers, and networking solutions for the multi-user Linux, Unix, and Windows marketplace. Western Scientific has consistently been first to market providing thoroughly tested, state of the art computing products and networked peripherals.

Source: Business Wire

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