Today’s data center requires a low-cost, low-power I/O solution with network flexibility to provide I/O consolidation on a single adapter. Network administrators want the best performance, scalability, latency while solving all their LAN, SAN and IPC (Clustering) needs packed into one adapter card in a virtualized or data center environment. ConnectX® is a single chip [...]
Change happens, and when you talk to anyone involved in the enterprise data center, change has been accelerating and is making their life more and more complicated. The most recent issue is the growing list of network protocols which the network engineer has to choose from. Previously, the decision on what network protocol was [...]
BridgeX received an excellent response from all the analysts that we briefed over the last few weeks. One article talked about how BridgeX reminded the author of the early days of networking when networking companies delivered bridges for Ethernet, Token Ring and Banyan Vines. The other one talked about the mish-mosh of protocols in the data [...]
Yesterday, myself along with Motti Beck and Ali Ayoub (our main VMware software developer at Mellanox) diligently put together a very compelling demo that highlights the convergence capabilities of our BridgeX BX 4000 gateway that we announced last week. We unpacked everything and got it all up and running in less than an hour (this [...]
Today, we announced one of the most innovative and strategic product – BridgeX, an I/O agnostic fabric consolidation silicon and you drop that in a 1U enclosure it becomes a full fledged system (BX4000) Few years back we defined our product strategy to deliver a single-wire I/O consolidation to data centers. The approach was not [...]
As promised in my last blog post (over two weeks ago), this post will focus on results from a more financial market-related application. The results below come from testing performed with 29West LBM 3.3.9. 29West LBM offers topic-based Publish/Subscribe semantics without a central server. Its primary design goal is to minimize latency. Many end-users and middleware providers incorporate LBM [...]
As previously suggested, I will review in this post a different application that is focused on converting protocols. QuickTransit, developed by a company called Transitive (recently acquired by IBM), is a cross-platform virtualization technology which allows applications that have been compiled for one operating system and processor to run on servers that use a different [...]
You don’t have to ask – vacation was awesome and as always not as long as we would like it to be. Now that we’ve taken the rust off our fingers, we’ve made progress with a bit more complex testbed. We’ve decided to look at the virtualization space and run our next application on top [...]
As promised in my last post, and after reviewing the OP-EX and CAP-EX saving provided by looking at a Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) oriented data center, we need to look at how the business can benefit from using such unified systems. As described in my first post, we will be using off-the-shelf market-known applications from [...]
This week’s blog is short, but it’s about the candy: the Rack — the Data Center’s building block. The pictures below visually describe what each one of us would like to have in their Data Center. Density – over 150 cores within less then 10U. Three different interconnects, 1GigE, 10GigE and 40Gb/s InfiniBand, using two [...]
