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Data Center Overview

Mellanox’s InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions command the best price-performance-power value proposition when network and storage I/O processing capabilities at 10Gb/s or higher are needed. Cloud providers and data centers can utilize 40Gb/s InfiniBand or 10 Gigabit Ethernet/FCoE to consolidate I/O in the server farm to a single wire and enable IT managers to deliver significantly higher application service levels, while reducing CAPEX and OPEX related to server and storage I/O infrastructures. Learn how Mellanox networking products can take your enterprise to the next performance level:

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is all about efficiency. It provides a simple way to deploy and access everything from single system to large scale IT resources, on demand, in real time and at an affordable cost. It makes high-performance compute and high-capacity storage available to anyone instantly. The data center that supports the cloud can deliver poor results unless it is optimized for performance, efficiency, scalability and quality of service.

Financial and Trading

IT departments in financial capital markets are facing huge growth in the volume of market data, while they are also under pressure to improve trade execution times. In these environments, one extra millisecond of trade execution latency can mean as much as $100 million in lost trades per year. To ensure maximum usage of expensive server and storage investments, financial services data centers must deploy I/O and networking solutions that scale to support any level of performance.

Green Computing

Green computing makes sense for both environmental and financial reasons. Mellanox I/O adapters, switches, and gateways facilitate green computing initiatives in multiple ways. Mellanox remote direct memory access (RDMA) solutions eliminates most CPU processing for packet exchanges between servers and storage, allowing servers to direct more performance toward compute-intensive tasks.

Virtualization

Growth of multi-core CPU-based servers and use of multiple virtual machines is driving the need for more I/O connectivity per physical server. Typical VMware ESX server environments, for example, require use of multiple Gigabit Ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel HBAs. This increases I/O cost, cabling and management complexity.

Data Warehousing

Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand-based server adapters and switches provide fault-tolerant and unified connectivity between clustered database servers and native InfiniBand storage, allowing for very high efficiency of CPU and storage capacity usage. The result is 50% less hardware cost to achieve the same level of performance. In fact, Mellanox InfiniBand was successively featured in Larry Ellison’s keynote at Oracle Open World in 2008 and 2009 regarding the Database Machine and the Exadata I and II platforms.

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. Learn how Mellanox is helping web hosting facitlies, Cloud providers, and large data centers improve their application performance with high-performance, scalable and efficient server and storage connectivity products.

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