IBM agreement gives InfiniBand a boost

摘要

IBM's announcement that it would InfiniBand-enable its server and storage products might give the high-speed I/O switching fabric the boost it needs to become a core part of corporate data centers, analysts say Last week, Big Blue announced a five-year agreement with InfiniBand switch maker Topspin Communications to integrate the InfiniBand technology into IBM's products and also resell Topspin's switches to IBM customers worldwide. IBM's Topspin agreement could boost the adoption of InfiniBand, which has yet to be embraced as widely as predicted when the technology was introduced in 1999.