By jsummers on February 27, 2013
We are happy to join the Network Intelligence Alliance, an industry organization created for collaboration among the Network Economy’s technology providers. Through our participation in the Alliance, Mellanox will help develop and market innovative solutions that further improve networking solutions for Enterprise, Cloud providers and Telecom Operators. Using Mellanox’s low-latency, CPU efficient 10/40GbE NICs [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged infiniband, networking, virtualization
By jsummers on February 26, 2013
The Lustre® file system has played a significant role in the high performance computing industry since its release in 2003. Lustre is used in many of the top HPC supercomputers in the world today, and has a strong development community behind it. Last week, Xyratex announced plans to purchase the Lustre trademark, logo, website [...]
Posted in storage | Tagged lustre, storage
By jsummers on February 23, 2013
Guest blog by Steve Barry, Product Line Manager for HP Ethernet Blade Switches One of the barriers to adoption of blade server technology has been the reliance on a limited number of network switches available. Organizations requiring unique switching capabilities or extra bandwidth have had to rely on Top of Rack switches built by networking [...]
Posted in data center | Tagged 40gb, HP, infiniband, RDMA, RoCE, switch
By jsummers on February 22, 2013
Written By: Erin Filliater, Enterprise Market Development Manager Via the Storage Solutions Group Everyone knows that flash storage is a big deal. However, one of the gaps in the flash storage market has been in enterprise flash systems. Flash caching has for some time been in many enterprise storage environments, but enterprise all-flash [...]
Posted in storage | Tagged flash, infiniband, rdm, storage
By jsummers on February 21, 2013
HP updated its enterprise hardware portfolio with the most notable addition being networking devices that combined wired and wireless infrastructure to better manage bring-your-own-device policies.One of those highlights is the Mellanox SX1018 HP Ethernet switch, which lowers port latency and improves downlinks. The Mellanox SX1018HP Ethernet Switch is the highest-performing Ethernet fabric solution [...]
Posted in enterprise, Releases | Tagged ethernet, HP, infi, switch
By jsummers on February 19, 2013
Written By: Eli Karpilovski, Manager, Cloud Market Development Windows Azure, one of the largest public cloud providers in the world today, recently ran a system performance benchmark, called LINPACK, to demonstrate the performance capabilities of its ‘Big Compute’ hardware. Windows Azure submitted the results and was certified as one of the world’s largest supercomputers [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing
By jsummers on February 19, 2013
Written By: Erin Filliater, Enterprise Market Development Manager Via the Storage Solutions Group As flash storage has become increasingly available at lower and lower prices, many organizations are leveraging flash’s low-latency features to boost application and storage performance in their data centers. Flash storage vendors claim their products can increase application performance by leaps [...]
Posted in storage | Tagged flash, infiniband, RDMA, RoCE, storage |
By jsummers on February 13, 2013
Atlantic.Net is a global cloud hosting provider that offers Atlantic.Net can now offer customers more robust cloud hosting services through a reliable, adaptable infrastructure, all at a lower cost in comparison to traditional interconnect solutions. Why Atlantic.Net Chose Mellanox Price and Cost Advantage Expensive hardware, overhead costs while scaling, as well as administrative costs can [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing
By jsummers on February 13, 2013
Written By: Eli Karpilovski, Manager, Cloud Market Development The new open source cloud orchestration platform called OpenStack is the promise of flexible network virtualization, and network overlays are looking closer than ever. The vision of this platform is to enable the on-demand creation of many distinct networks on top of one underlying physical infrastructure [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, openflow, openstack, sdn |
By jsummers on February 13, 2013
On 02.12.13, In Cloud Computing, by Pete Johnson Originally Posted: http://blog.profitbricks.com/why-i-left-hp Pete Johnson, new Platform Evangelist Woz once said, “I thought I’d be an HPer for life.” While I don’t usually claim to have a whole lot in common with the man who designed the first computer I ever saw (an Apple II, summer ’78), [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, infiniband | Tagged ethernet, HP, HPC, infiniband, ProfitBricks, virtualization