VIEO Announces Only Complete Set of Commercial-Grade InfiniBand-Enabling Software with Support for Next-Generation 4X 10 Gb/s Silicon, Challenges Industry to Match Performance and Functionality.

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2002

VIEO, Inc., the leader in Adaptive Application Infrastructure Management (AAIM), announced plans to release VIEO Fabric Manager(TM) Suite, VIEO FabricView(TM) Suite, and VIEO Fabric Transport Suite with support for the new commercially-available 4X silicon from IBM Microelectronics and Mellanox Technologies. With the availability of this complete InfiniBand-enabling software, vendors will now have all of the building blocks required to deliver data center products and embedded applications that exploit previously unattainable 10 Gb/sec InfiniBand performance, low latency Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), reliability, manageability and low total cost of ownership.

VIEO offers the only comprehensive line of commercial-grade InfiniBand-enabling software available with silicon device drivers, fabric managers and agents, management console and interface, and high-speed, low-latency fabric transports including IP over IB, IBLAN, SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP), Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP), and MPI. VIEO products have been licensed by 28 customers and are embedded in VIEO's next-generation systems management offering--the VIEO Adaptive Application Infrastructure Management (AAIM) solution.

"Confusion around the availability of software for InfiniBand is hurting the industry today. Only VIEO is offering a complete commercial-grade InfiniBand software solution and we're demonstrating this fact with a growing list of paying customers and live data center demonstrations," said Bob Fabbio, president and chief executive officer of VIEO. "We are at a critical juncture in the adoption of InfiniBand and we encourage others to rally to the cause with software that meets vendors' needs to deliver high quality products to market."

"InfiniBand is emerging as a very attractive I/O technology for boosting performance in data center applications," said Marielena Oppenheimer, industry analyst at Gartner Dataquest. "The InfiniBand silicon market is expected to surpass 487 million dollars by the year 2006. Although there may be some 12X silicon product introduction, the market should be mostly dominated by 4X products."

"By providing support for 4X silicon, VIEO will help vendors deliver commercial-grade InfiniBand solutions that feature significantly improved performance, reliability and scalability," said Jim Bowers, manager for InfiniBand and SRAM products for IBM's Microelectronics Division. "By offering the software required to enable InfiniBand solutions, companies like VIEO play an important role in unleashing the true power of InfiniBand."

"By offering a unified set of InfiniBand management software and upper-level transport protocols for Mellanox's InfiniHost(TM) 4X silicon, VIEO is delivering the critical building blocks that will accelerate the widespread deployment of InfiniBand products," said Kevin Deierling, vice president of product marketing for Mellanox Technologies. "By enabling the integration of InfiniBand software more quickly and easily, VIEO is helping vendors deliver commercial-grade solutions that translate 10Gb/s InfiniBand performance into increased productivity and lower total cost of ownership in the data center."

VIEO's InfiniBand-enabling software allows OEM partners to minimize project risk, improve time to market, shorten the path to revenue, reduce development costs, and focus on core competencies. VIEO's unified software stack was designed, developed and tested as a whole to present far fewer integration and testing challenges and dramatically reduce risks for OEMs delivering their products to market. VIEO software is silicon-, processor-, OS-, and execution- environment independent to afford OEMs maximum flexibility in developing best-of-breed data center and embedded solutions. Additionally, it is extensible to enable OEM partners to deliver value-added features.

About VIEO

VIEO is the leader in Adaptive Application Infrastructure Management (AAIM) delivering a new class of systems management solution designed to increase Application Quality of Service (AQoS) in order to ensure business objectives are achieved. VIEO's next-generation solution, delivered on a management appliance, is designed to ensure business-critical application certainty by empowering organizations to cost-effectively measure, analyze, and affect application-dedicated resources as a single computer. It leverages VIEO's InfiniBand-based enabling software to provide insight into the entire application environment and the ability to dynamically affect IT resources based on application demands and business priorities. VIEO is a founding member of the Open Group Interconnect Software Consortium and an active member of the Distributed Management Task Force, the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA), the RDMA Consortium, and other leading standards bodies. Based in Austin, Texas, VIEO customers include AMD, BMC Software, Ciprico, IBM, InfiniSwitch, Mellanox Technologies, Network Appliance, Paceline Systems, RedSwitch, Topspin, and others. On the net: VIEO website www.vieo.com.

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