Mellanox Technologies: Data Center Case Studies

Case Studies

Mellanox server and storage interconnect products deliver down to earth values that relieve the most critical pain points in the data center today. These are a few examples of how Mellanox is helping change the face of the data center with high-performance, scalable and efficient server and storage connectivity products.

Cloud Service Provider Delivers Higher and More Reliable Service Levels Using Mellanox InfiniBand Products

Founded in 2006, ENKI is a provider of managed cloud computing and offers its customers access to its shared cloud infrastructure. ENKI’s customers are typically Software-as-a-Service vendors & start-ups - companies that require a flexible cloud solution to accommodate growing demand for performance as the number of application users grows or as they need more resources for product testing.

By deploying InfiniBand end-to-end, PrimaCloud can support high volume and high-performance requirements, on demand, and offer service that scales as customers’ needs change and grow.

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	Cloud Service Provider Delivers Higher and More Reliable Service Levels Using Mellanox InfiniBand Products Logicworks is a leading provider of highly reliable cloud hosting solutions. The company offers its clients managed cloud services with high service levels in the areas of high availability and increased transaction throughput.By utilizing Mellanox InfiniBand, Logicworks now provides its cloud customers a competitive service offering at a significant lower total cost of ownership compared to cloud services that utilize traditional Ethernet and/or Fibre Channel based network solutions. View PDF (478KB)


	Partners Healthcare Cuts Latency of Cloud-based Storage Solution Using Mellanox’s InfiniBand Technology By integrating InfiniBand into the storage solution, Partners Healthcare was able to reduce latency close to zero and increase its performance, providing their customers with faster response and higher capacity. View PDF (314KB)


	Down-to-earth Values, ROI Up In The Clouds The five proof points relating how Fortune 500 customers are availing these benefits to save money, build more efficient and greener data centers hereby improving their competitive-edge through better service delivery to their end-users and customers. View PDF (266KB)

Global Shipping Company Chooses InfiniBand to Maximize Data Center Efficiency and Increase Processing Capabilities, while Dramatically Reducing Costs

By implementing a solution based on InfiniBand technology, the customer was able to maximize the efficiency of their data center while significantly increasing their processing capabilities, ensuring greater reliability and scalability.

Due to the reduced number of servers and significantly less number of Oracle 11g RAC licenses, the TCO of the InfiniBand solution has the potential to save the customer approximately $2.6 million in hardware, maintenance, database and energy costs over a period of four years compared to a 10GbE solution.

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	Intalio and Mellanox bring InfiniBand Solutions to Enterprise Cloud Computing Using Mellanox end-to-end InfiniBand solutions, the Intalio\|Cloud Appliance benefits from a unified networking fabric that eliminates the need to deploy and manage multiple and low-performing networking technologies such as Ethernet and Fibre Channel. It reduces networking hardware acquisition costs by up to 50 percent and network management costs by up to 30 percent. View PDF (439KB)


	TELCO Meets Datacenter Growth and Green IT Demands The company sought a new datacenter architecture that would meet its short-term challenges while establishing a reliable, risk-free growth path. Mellanox InfiniBand provided 4X better performance and TCO savings of 90%. View PDF (561KB)


	Ecommerce Hosting Provider Drastically Cuts Server Provisioning Costs Using Virtualized InfiniBand-based Solution and VMware The channel I/O interface available in Mellanox InfiniBand adapters enabled dynamic, software-based installation and removal of virtual NICs and HBAs and their associated virtual links, and would deliver the required quality of service needed to carry critical Fibre Channel traffic from the servers to the SAN, resulting in further time and expense savings through I/O consolidation. View PDF (212k)