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ARMONK, NY – – 01 Sep 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), an infrastructure provider for data centers, has selected the company’s newest IBM iDataPlex server for a new global cloud computing resource center. The center, which will be based in Israel and available online, will offer developers, partners and IT managers an environment to integrate and fully test cloud-based solutions.

The center will be powered in-part by IBM’s newest iDataPlex dx360 M2 server, which features expanded memory from previous versions (128 GB); support for the new VMware vSphere 4^TM virtualization platform; and overall performance benchmarks recently listing the iDataPlex as the most power-efficient system among similar technology products, as compiled by SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmark¹. The new Voltaire-designed center will extend these advancements to all companies interested; for example, SaaS companies will be able to leverage the center to benchmark their applications, such as broadcasting services and gaming. Also, the new center will maintain a list of testing results and blueprints for the solutions created, providing a vital technical and marketing resource and best-practices guide for current and future cloud innovations.

Check out this article discussing Voltaire selecting IBM’s iDataPlex server for their cloud computing center, very cool, I remain a fan of their iDataPlex concept. I’m off to check out more.

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