Last month, the Taneja Group released a report on InfiniBand’s role in the data center, “InfiniBand’s Data Center March” confirming what members of the IBTA have known for a while: InfiniBand is expanding its role in the enterprise.
Mike Matchett, Sr. Analyst at Taneja Group recently posted a blog on the industry report. In his post, Mike summarizes the growing InfiniBand market and the benefits he sees in adopting InfiniBand. Here is an excerpt from his blog:
Recently we posted a new market assessment of InfiniBand and its growing role in enterprise data centers, so I’ve been thinking a lot about low-latency switched fabrics and what they imply for IT organizations. I’d like to add a more philosophical thought about the optimized design of InfiniBand and its role as data center communication virtualization.
From the start, InfiniBand’s design goal was to provide a high performing messaging service for applications even if they existed in entirely separate address spaces across servers. By architecting from the “top down” rather than layering up from something like Ethernet’s byte stream transport, InfiniBand is able to deliver highly efficient and effective messaging between applications. In fact, the resulting messaging service can be thought of as “virtual channel IO” (I’m sure much to the delight of mainframers).
To read the full blog post, check out the Taneja blog. And be sure to read the full analyst report from Taneja Group that published in July.
