Voltaire and Emulex Partner on Scale-out 10GbE Fabrics

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UFM™ 3.0 Software Demonstration at SC’10 Orchestrates Virtualized 10GbE Data Center Fabric with Voltaire Vantage™ Switches and Emulex 10GbE Adapters

SC|10, NEW ORLEANS, La. – November 16, 2010 –

Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out data center fabrics, today announced that it is collaborating with Emulex to deliver end-to-end 10GbE solutions to customers.  The two companies have completed interoperability testing and cross-certification of Voltaire Vantage 10GbE switches and software and Emulex OneConnect™ Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNAs). The joint solution will be featured in a live demonstration at SC|10 in New Orleans this week.

The demonstration held in Voltaire booth 3139 highlights Voltaire’s Unified Fabric Manager™ (UFM™) software orchestrating end-to-end virtual machine connectivity for multi-vendor scale-out data center fabrics.

“Voltaire and Emulex are well-aligned and positioned as 10GbE adoption in the data center heats up,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire.  “Voltaire’s 10GbE switches and Emulex OneConnect 10GbE UCNA solutions are both carried by HP and IBM creating an easy path to deployment by our mutual customers.”

“Emulex is committed to building partnerships that help customers make the transition to high-performance, high-density 10GbE networks,” said Steve Daheb, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of business development, Emulex. “Collaborating with Voltaire ensures customers have the solutions they need, to not only make the transition, but make the transition a seamless one, enabling them to realize the benefits of network consolidation and convergence.”

In addition Voltaire and Emulex are working together to deliver solutions through resellers and VARs through Voltaire’s adVantage Partner program and Emulex’s Connect Ecosystem Partner Program.

About Voltaire

Voltaire (NASDAQ: VOLT) is a leading provider of scale-out computing fabrics for data centers, high performance computing and cloud environments. Voltaire’s family of server and storage fabric switches and advanced management software improve performance of mission-critical applications, increase efficiency and reduce costs through infrastructure consolidation and lower power consumption. Used by more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100 and other premier organizations across many industries, including many of the TOP500 supercomputers, Voltaire products are included in server and blade offerings from Bull, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, NEC and SGI. Founded in 1997, Voltaire is headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel and Chelmsford, Massachusetts. More information is available atwww.voltaire.comor by calling 1-800-865-8247.

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