European Supercomputer Center (VSC) Selects Mellanox’s End-to-End EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Solution to Further Science and Medical Research

European Supercomputer Center (VSC) Selects Mellanox’s End-to-End EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand Solution to Further Science and Medical Research Pursue Advanced Scientific Research and Modeling with Leading Complete End-to-End EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand System in Belgium

SUNNYVALE, CA and YOKNEAM, ISRAEL – February 17, 2016 – Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that the Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC) in Belgium, has selected Mellanox’s end-to-end 100Gb/s EDR interconnect solutions to be integrated into a new LX-series supercomputer that is to be supplied by NEC Corporation. The system, which will be the fastest supercomputer (Tier-1) and the first complete end-to-end EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand system in Belgium, is another example of the increasing global adoption of EDR InfiniBand technology.

“The scientific community at VSC is performing critical studies into environmental sustainability, atmospheric modeling, researching of new materials, and medical research,” said Ingrid Barcena Roig, Tier 1 project leader, VSC at KU Leuven. “This new supercomputer will provide one of the most progressive global infrastructures to date, empowering researchers to explore and analyze some of the greatest challenges facing science today. The Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand solution will make it possible for the center to expand this vital research and produce potentially life-changing results much faster than ever before.”

The supercomputer will be ranked among the top 150 fastest supercomputers in the world with a peak performance of 623 Teraflops. The infrastructure will support scientific research into renewable energy sources, the development of new medicines, and advanced climate modeling on both Earth and other planets. The complete system is scheduled to be installed in March 2016 and will be financed by the Flemish Minister for Science and Innovation in Belgium.

“NEC is proud to be involved in this project with VSC and provide the center with a next generation supercomputer,” said Bruno Lecointe, senior sales manager, western Europe, NEC Deutschland GmbH. “NEC is very passionate about being a partner in scientific research and helping researchers achieve the level of high sustained performance needed for potentially life-changing discoveries to be made. NEC worked closely with both Mellanox and VSC when developing this supercomputer to ensure we understood the challenges the center faced and that we were able to deliver a customized system that was exactly what they needed to achieve their unique goals.”

“Mellanox is thrilled to contribute to a project that will accelerate scientific discovery and has the capability to solve some of the top problems plaguing scientists and researchers today,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing, Mellanox Technologies. “This new supercomputer will position the university to make discoveries critical for the continuous advancement of science. VSC selected Mellanox for the performance levels only EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand can deliver and is a prime example of the growing global demand for intelligent, fast, highly reliable, and cost efficient interconnect technology.”

For more information about the Flemish Supercomputer Center in Belgium, please visit: https://www.vscentrum.be/.

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Zycko Deploys VM Aware Storage Solution from Mellanox and Tintri for Private Cloud Data Center

Zycko Deploys VM Aware Storage Solution from Mellanox and Tintri for Private Cloud Data Center IT Solutions Provider Leverages Best-in-Class Technologies for Simplified Management, High-Performance and Low Energy Consumption for New Data Center Site

SUNNYVALE, CA and YOKNEAM, ISRAEL - February 16, 2016 - Mellanox(r) Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that Zycko, an international specialist IT distributor of innovative IT solutions, has deployed a software-defined storage solution consisting of Mellanox 56Gb Ethernet networking and hybrid Flash VM-Aware Storage from Tintri. This pairing of optimized technologies provides Zycko with simplified deployment and data center management while simultaneously lowering energy consumption and capital expenditures.

"As a distributor, Zycko has access to a wide range of innovative solutions and we have a culture of deploying the products we sell, within our own business infrastructure. This project required cutting-edge technologies that were fully integrated and offered us the best balance of performance and value," said David Galton-Fenzi, CEO, Zycko. "Tintri and Mellanox stood out from the rest because both companies are guided by similar principles - providing solutions with optimal performance, manageability and scalability, all while decreasing the size of your data center footprint and lowering costs. This multi-vendor solution has helped us improve our overall business functionality and has been such a success that we realized we could offer this solution and deliver this same commercial value to our customers."

Zycko's VM Aware storage solution combines a Tintri T820 and the Mellanox SX1012 40/56 Gb/s Ethernet switch. The Tintri platform is an easy to deploy and manage solution which enabled Zycko to begin migrating virtual machines onto it within 30 minutes of unpacking the unit from the box. The Mellanox switch provides tremendous space and cost savings, combined with unmatched performance. Together this joint solution offers:

• 98 percent decrease in management tasks and troubleshooting

• 50 percent space reduction in data center

• Optimized density with 6x 10GbE ports in 1U of space and the ability to support 11x more virtual machines per 1U rack

• 75 percent less power use per port

• 18x more storage performance

• 80 percent cost compared to equivalent technology

"Tintri is the pioneer of VM-aware storage, so when Zycko approached us about deploying a new solution for their own data center that would offer better performance and visibility, we were certainly up for the task," said Andrew Lee, EVP Strategic Alliances at Tintri. "Even better that we were able to work with Mellanox, since we share a focus on reducing latency and costs. This collaboration has proven to be a success on several levels - satisfied customer, new partnership, and a fully validated solution ready for new customers."

"Mellanox realizes the benefits of providing fully integrated storage solutions and our open networking solutions enable companies to create virtualized private clouds that deliver exactly what they need," said Kevin Deierling, vice president of marketing, Mellanox. "We were excited to partner with Tintri to build a simple yet powerful storage solution for Zycko and we recognized that this development had created a fully integrated, ready-to-use, turn-key VM aware storage platform. Zycko had the vision to offer this same platform to their customers deploying virtualized data centers to deliver the performance, and space cost savings that can propel businesses forward."

Docker as a High-Performance Enabler for Cloud Storage

Docker as a High-Performance Enabler for Cloud Storage

February 9, 2016 http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/02/09/docker-as-a-high-performance-enabler-for-cloud-storage/ by Oded Kellner, Vice President of Product Management, Zadara Storage http://www.enterprisetech.com/author/doug/

The container-based service Docker is gaining massive momentum in the industry, and for many good reasons. The current appeal of Docker http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/tip/Docker-storage-and-virtual-storage-requirements-differ stems from issues associated with running VMs, namely that each one has to be provided with virtualized memory and storage resources. Containers make it far easier to run enterprise-grade services and address concerns for data portability, scaling, processing, performance, extensibility and latency.

When it comes to storage, however – there’s a rub. Early implementers of Docker utilizing storage applications say that accessing this storage is the most significant challenge in working with Docker, apart from designing the Docker containers themselves. Typically, containers perform a task on the data stored within them, and then disappear, which can be problematic if the data in a container has to be permanent.

Storage options for Docker implementation are nascent, yet emerging modalities appear to follow two distinct approaches. The usual approach is to place storage in compute. Flip this concept around and place the compute into the storage, and we are getting into a very interesting area of exciting new options for high performance enterprise-grade cloud storage.

Docker Storage Options in the Cloud - Storage in Compute

This is currently the most common way of using Docker, mostly because it is a rather simple way of implementation into existing architectures. Docker is pointed at the local storage of the server on which it’s running (this is how one would be using Docker in a public cloud like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure).

Given that server storage is local, as implemented by most cloud providers, this approach offers neither high availability (HA) nor sharing. Another downside is that this approach creates isolated islands of storage within the physical servers. When one application runs out of space, it cannot access excess capacity allocated to another application.

An additional concern is that in widely distributed systems, even with Docker containers, there can be a lack of privacy and isolation, which are important for applications hosting sensitive information or requiring high Quality of Service (QoS) (due to noisy neighbors).

Compute inside the Storage

When it comes to cloud storage, perceptions exist that performance and QoS will be less than on-premise, traditional arrays. While this perception is not necessarily always accurate, improving overall performance is generally a priority, regardless of the architecture. There are multiple ways to achieve this and enabling Docker right inside the storage is one such unique approach. By placing the compute right inside the storage, users can bypassing networking, and achieve practically zero latency between the processor and the storage in the cloud.

There are several important advantages to this approach, especially for high availability and high performance needs.

1. *Reduced Network Latency *

The data doesn’t have to travel over a network that connects servers and storage if the application is running inside the storage and outputs right into the storage.

1. Sharing

One of the main advantages of centralized storage is that it’s shared. That means that the same data set can be accessed by multiple containers and/or virtual machines. For data sets like map data, this is a requirement. Without it, each container would need its own copy of the map data.

1. Persistence

Despite many Docker use cases being ephemeral and local, certain common applications – such as media transcoding – require persistence. In those instances, the data needs to be shared by, and to, multiple VMs and containers and the same data needs to be persistent (the resulting transcoded videos need to be available for streaming after the container has finished transcoding). Docker is an elegant solution for this, because it can be programmed to be launched when needed (e.g., when a new media file is added) and then terminated upon completion (e.g., when the transcoding is done).

1. Extensibility

Since the containers run inside the storage, they give users the ability to write code that adds to the storage functionality. By using containers within the storage, customers can quickly modify, expand and customize the storage behavior and properties, by introducing code for new functionality.

1. Data-Aware Storage

Traditional storage solutions keep and protect the data, but are not aware of the data content. With Docker, it’s relatively easy to write code that runs within the storage and looks into the data, for number of useful purposes like:

· Indexing of Big Data for quick future search

· Search for illegal content

· Security related scans

· Data format change – for instance converting multimedia file formats (different video/images standards and resolutions)

Containerization is allowing savvy IT teams to extend a storage service in such fundamental ways – without forcing users to take a step backward in enterprise-grade features that are critical to performance. We’ve only just begun to see its utility and benefits for high-performance applications, as enterprises find new Docker-based solutions to their business challenges every day.

*Oded Kellner is Vice President of Product Management at Zadara Storage http://www.zadarastorage.com/, an enterprise Storage as a Service (STaaS) player and early adopter of containers for high performance cloud storage*

http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/02/09/docker-as-a-high-performance-enabler-for-cloud-storage/

Mellanox Promotes Amit Katz to Vice President of Ethernet Switch Sales

Mellanox Promotes Amit Katz to Vice President of Ethernet Switch Sales

SUNNYVALE, CA and YOKNEAM, ISRAEL - February 2, 2016 - Mellanox(r) Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the promotion of Amit Katz to Vice President of Ethernet Switch Sales.

"Amit has been key to the growth of our Ethernet business and we are pleased to announce his promotion to vice president of Ethernet switch sales," said Marc Sultzbaugh, senior vice president of Worldwide Sales at Mellanox Technologies. "I have no doubt that Amit will continue to make great contributions to the company as our data center customers transition to 25, 50, and 100Gb/s Ethernet switches."

Amit Katz was Mellanox's Senior Director of Worldwide Ethernet Switch Sales since 2014, and previously served in Product Management roles at Mellanox since 2011. Prior to that, Mr. Katz held various Product Management positions at Voltaire and at RAD Data Communications. Mr. Katz graduated Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo with a BA of Computer Science, and MBA from Ben Gurion University.

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Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software, cables and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at www.mellanox.com.

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