During Interop, Mellanox made an exciting announcement on its next line of adapters based on the Mellanox ConnectX adapter architecture.

Mellanox Delivers Single-Chip 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Mellanox announced the immediate availability of ConnectX™ EN Dual-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter chips and NICs (Network Interface Cards) which optimize data center productivity with leading throughput and latency performance. Applications such as clustered databases, web infrastructure and virtualized solutions that utilize ConnectX EN deliver an enhanced user experience while reducing data center infrastructure power and complexity as compared to multiple, slower speed Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel connections.

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• View ConnectX EN 10 Gigabit Ethernet Silicon Product Brief
  

The Need for Increased Bandwidth and Capacity Will Drive Infiniband Adoption Through 2011, IDC Says

The need to handle expanding server and storage workloads and provide critical business services beyond traditional interconnect capabilities is driving IT executives to seriously examine their existing network environments and the future viability of InfiniBand adoption. According to new research from IDC, high-performance computing (HPC), scale-out database environments, shared virtualized I/O, and increasing demands from financial applications will propel worldwide InfiniBand host channel adaptor (HCA) factory revenues from $62.3 million in 2006 to $224.7 million in 2011. Additionally, factory revenue from InfiniBand switch port sales is expected to grow from $94.9 million in 2006 to $612.2 million in 2011.

The study, Worldwide InfiniBand 2007-2011 Forecast (IDC #206902), presents a worldwide forecast for InfiniBand adoption as a server interconnect for 2006–2011. IDC explores the underlying demand that is driving customer choice and presents some challenges that suppliers face in their effort to expand customer usage over time. As with most technologies, InfiniBand will be adopted at different rates based on workload requirements, regional variation, customer perception, and cost.

To purchase this document, call IDC's Sales hotline at 508-988-7988 or email sales@idc.com

New Mellanox White Papers

• InfiniBand and SAN performance
  InfiniBand’s I/O unification capabilities and higher throughput makes it useful for such applications, reducing costs by about 50 percent. In virtual server environments, InfiniBand has shown it can deliver native SAN performance (1,500 MBps) from virtual machines, and scale almost linearly across multiple virtual machines...(more)
  

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