ProfitBricks Selects Mellanox IB
For cloud hosting infrastructure in the US and Europe
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on July 25, 2012 at 2:08 pmMellanox Technologies, Ltd announced that ProfitBricks
GmbH has selected Mellanox’s end-to-end IB products,
for its cloud hosting infrastructure in the US and European data centers.
Utilizing Mellanox’s IB interconnect solutions, ProfitBricks offers 4X
higher transfer rates with 10X lower latency times than comparable cloud IaaS
providers based on 10GbE. ProfitBricks offer dual port IB
connectivity to the server in order to insure performance and redundancy. In
addition, Mellanox’s advanced interconnect reliability enables ProfitBricks
with infrastructure scalability without efficiency or stability loss.
"Mellanox’s InfiniBand
interconnect solutions offer unprecedented performance that enables us to
achieve transmission speeds 8X faster than current Ethernet standards permit,"
said Achim Weiss founder and CEO of ProfitBricks. "The collaboration between Mellanox and
ProfitBricks has resulted in a high-performance Cloud IaaS solution platform at
a low cost on which service providers can utilize for large-scale
virtualization initiatives and cloud deployments."
"Mellanox’s InfiniBand
interconnect solutions lead the industry with performance, enterprise class
reliability and HA, improving Cloud infrastructure return-on-investment,"
said Gilad Shainer, VP of market development at Mellanox Technologies. "Leveraging Mellanox’s unmatched InfiniBand
interconnect performance, efficiency and scalability capabilities, ProfitBricks
enables Cloud service providers with a fast, stable, reliable and scalable
on-demand virtualized infrastructure."