VIEO Announces First Commercial-Grade InfiniBand Fabric-Enabling Products.Business Editors & High Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2002 VIEO Software Provides High Quality, Dramatic Cost Savings, and Faster Time-to-Market for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Customers' InfiniBand Products VIEO Inc., the Adaptive Application Infrastructure Management (AAIM AAIM American Association of Integrative Medicine AAIM Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia AAIM American Academy of Insurance Medicine AAIM Asociación Argentina de Informática Médica AAIM Aircraft Autonomous Integrity Monitoring ) company, today announced the general availability of the industry's first commercial-grade InfiniBand(TM) fabric-enabling software. Designed to be embedded in partner solutions, these software products provide the fabric management capabilities that are essential to run applications in InfiniBand-based computing environments. The products include VIEO Fabric Manager(TM) that provides the critical fabric management software for InfiniBand resources, and VIEO FabricView(TM) that enables the administrator and third party management applications to interface with InfiniBand fabrics and resources. These products and the latest release of the VIEO Software Developer Kit accelerate partners' product integration, testing and time-to-market. VIEO also announced a developer's release of VIEO Fabric Transports supporting Virtual Interface (VI), InfiniBand Verbs, IBLAN IBLAN InfiniBand LAN Emulation Protocol (Intel protocol supporting legacy TCP/IP over Infiniband) , IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB), and SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. Remote DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. Protocol (SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. ). VIEO Fabric Transports enable enterprise applications and databases to run seamlessly in an InfiniBand fabric without modification. "VIEO's release of commercial-grade InfiniBand fabric-enabling products is a big step toward accelerating the adoption of fabric computing environments and a major milestone for the InfiniBand industry," said Vernon Turner, group vice president, International Data Corporation (IDC). "Soon companies and data centers everywhere will begin to benefit from the high performance and manageability advantages that fabric computing environments promise to deliver and VIEO is playing an important role in making this happen." "The availability of commercial-grade InfiniBand management products is another in a series of VIEO `fast firsts' that will drive the adoption of fabric computing," said Bob Fabbio, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of VIEO. "These production-worthy products and our ability to demonstrate VIEO software running enterprise applications and databases without alteration clearly illustrates the commercial viability of InfiniBand fabric computing solutions today." In addition to providing the framework necessary to build InfiniBand-based fabric computing environments, VIEO's commercial-grade InfiniBand software products also lay the groundwork for the delivery of VIEO's AAIM solution, a new class of systems management software that will exploit the revolutionary capabilities offered by fabric computing. Currently in production (see today's announcement titled "VIEO Announces Adaptive Application Infrastructure Management Solution for Next-Generation Systems Management"), VIEO's AAIM solution will allow companies, for the first time, to ensure business critical application certainty by cost-effectively measuring, analyzing, and affecting application dedicated resources as a single computer. As a result, customers will be able to reduce costs and greatly simplify managing their enterprise applications and networks. About VIEO VIEO is the Adaptive Application Infrastructure Management (AAIM) company delivering a new class of systems management solution designed to increase Application Quality of Service (AQoS) to ensure business objectives are achieved. VIEO's AAIM solution enables business critical application certainty by cost-effectively measuring, analyzing, and affecting application dedicated resources as a single computer. With VIEO's next generation AAIM solution, the management of application environments now shifts from a tactical investment focused on technical issues to a strategic investment that optimizes business results. VIEO is a founding member of the Open Group Interconnect Software Consortium and an active member of the InfiniBand Trade Association The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is the standards organization that defines and maintains the InfiniBand specification. It is an industry consortium. The IBTA was established in 1999, and its most prominent members include Cisco, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, QLogic, Sun and (IBTA IBTA InfiniBand Trade Association IBTA Instituto Brasileiro de Tecnologia Avançada IBTA Instituto Boliviano de Tecnologia Agropecuaria IBTA International Business Travel Association IBTA International Business Training Association ) and other leading standards bodies Following are some of the standards bodies defined in this database. For Windows users of CDE, look up Lessons/Review/Associations. For Web users of CDE's online HTML version, review the Lessons list at the bottom of the definition. Organization Covers ANSI U.S. . Based in Austin, Texas, VIEO customers and partners include AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , BMC Software, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , InfiniSwitch, Intel, Mellanox Technologies, Network Appliance, OmegaBand, Paceline Systems, RedSwitch, Topspin, and others. More information on VIEO is available at www.vieo.com. (c) 2002 VIEO Inc. VIEO, the VIEO logo, VIEO Fabric Manager and VIEO FabricView are trademarks of VIEO Inc. InfiniBand is a TM/SM of the InfiniBand Trade Association. 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