[ Thanks to Paul
Shread for this link. ]
“”InfiniBand was thought to be a networking solution
for the high-performance computing segment only, but that’s really
not true,” explained Shainer. “InfiniBand enables you to run any
kind of application, any kind of transport, and can be used for a
database, for HPC, for storage, for management. And InfiniBand
enables you to do the same kind of things that you were doing with
an Ethernet infrastructure … but significantly increases your
system’s efficiency and utilization. And InfiniBand is not a niche
technology. It’s fully supported by the Linux vendors, the Linux
community, by Microsoft, and by many others. It’s perfect for
virtualization, for cloud computing, for any kind of usage.”“When asked to look in his crystal ball and see what the future
holds for InfiniBand — and whether FCoE and 10GbE pose a
significant threat — Boles said he didn’t see any significant
changes in the marketplace in the next three to six months —
and felt both protocols would be viable in the short and medium
term.”