Press Room

INFINIBAND^SM TRADE ASSOCIATION SPONSORS SERVER I/O 2002 CONFERENCE & TRADESHOW - FEBRUARY 4-6, 2002

Santa Barbara, CA December 12, 2001
The IBTA, InfiniBand Trade Association, joins Strategic Research Corporation and Intel Corp. as sponsors of the highly acclaimed Server I/O Conference and Tradeshow. Now in its seventh year, Server I/O remains the only forum focused on the emergence of System I/O as the cornerstone of the new datacenter.

InfiniBand^TM architecture is a system interconnect fabric, linking servers and server components together into a seamless fabric connected to storage networks and communication networks. InfiniBand architecture is also a foundational infrastructure and architecture for the datacenter which will bring new levels of reliability, scalability, performance, and flexibility to datacenter design.

The IBTA and its member companies will take a high profile role in this conference and tradeshow. The sponsors highly recommend that you attend and participate in this event, as Server I/O consistently stands alone with a number of industry "firsts" as a conference:

• Consistently rated as the best technology conference of the year for content and value
• The only forum bringing together the entire datacenter infrastructure community, Servers, I/O, Networking, and Storage, to accomplish a holistic view of their relationships to each other and a unifying vision of the technologies
• Annually launches many new industries, technologies, and companies. Examples last year included thin servers, blade servers, and network arrays
• Focus on answering the "Big Questions" in the industry and developing a vision of the future that serves as a roadmap for the industry
• Provide IT Systems Engineers with a focal point for education on new strategic datacenter technologies.

"I take great pride in designing Server I/O each year and creating world-class content," says Michael Peterson, President of Strategic Research Corp. "This is not a traditional unstructured conference. We are bringing the entire industry together to develop a unifying vision of the future and I invite you to join us in this effort." Server I/O 2002 will feature a comprehensive conference program that covers the complete spectrum of existing datacenter infrastructures, Server, System I/O, Storage, and Networking Technologies and emerging technology companies. Participate in this three-day event, February 4-6, 2002 at the Monterey Conference Center in Monterey, California to see new companies, products, and technologies and even help launch new industries. For further information or to register for Server I/O 2002, please visit the web site at www.serverio.net.

About Strategic Research Corp.
Strategic Research Corp., formed in 1988, is a full service market research firm. It's president, Michael Peterson, is widely recognized as the leading analyst and advocate in the Network Storage and I/O Networking field. He has personally formed the lead 6 industry trade associations, most recently founding the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNIA, and acting as President for its first two years. The company specializes in business and market development, consulting, publishing, and hosts the annual "Server I/O Conference" in Monterey, California. For more information on these products and services visit the web site at www.sresearch.com or contact them at (805) 569-5610.

About Intel
Founding Sponsor: Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.

About InfiniBand Trade Association

The Internet is creating an increased demand for server computer I/O subsystem performance, scalability, reliability and flexibility. A shift to a switched fabric-based I/O architecture will enable industry participants to meet this increased demand. The InfiniBand Trade Association developed a specification for a channel-based, switched fabric architecture that provides a scalable performance range of 500 Mbyte/s to 6 Gbyte/s, meeting the needs from entry level to high-end enterprise systems. InfiniBand Trade Association represents the industry's choice for developing I/O technologies that will keep pace with the demands of the Internet age.

	Press Contact:		Member Contact:
	Bilepo Scott		Tom Flynn
	Owen Media, Inc.		InfiniBand Trade Association Administration
	(206) 322-1167		(503) 291-2565
	bilepos@owenmedia.com		administration@infinibandta.org