Dutch Cloud Provider Selects Mellanox IB

Mellanox Technologies Ltd announced its
industry IB solutions were selected by Dutch cloud service provider, Cloud Provider B.V., a cloud hosting
and IaaS provider in the Netherlands, as its
standard interconnect infrastructure for their enterprise cloud deployments.

With more than 500 clients and resellers, Cloud Provider offers its customers a
cloud platform to build and scale applications and websites on-demand.
Utilizing IB interconnect solutions, it reduced
their cost of deployment and decreased the complexity of their data center
environments, providing their customers with a higher performance cloud
computing platform at an overall lower price.

"In comparison to other interconnect
solutions like Ethernet, Mellanox’s InfiniBand offers us a faster and more
stable transmission of data between our hypervisors and storage platform,
enabling us to meet our customers’ evolving demands for high performing cloud
solutions with low latency, while keeping our costs low," said Sander
Cruiming, CEO, Cloud Provider. "By
leveraging Mellanox’s unique IB interconnect performance, efficiency and
scalability capabilities, Cloud Provider can offer a fast, stable, and scalable
on-demand virtualized infrastructure that differentiates us from our
competitors."

Cloud Provider has been using IB within its own data center for the
past 2.5 years, conducting research around use of the interconnect for
distributed storage and scalable cloud infrastructures. Due to IB’s
ROI and application cost/performance, it
decided to use IB over 10 or 40GbE as the core of the company’s
offering.

"We develop high-traffic business
websites with the Drupal CMS. On our previous platform, we experienced disk
performance issues, as our applications need fast storage access for a large
number of database queries and for file-based caching," said Rick
Bosscher, GM, Dycon.nl. "Cloud Provider’s new IB-based cloud platform has given a great
performance boost to our clients’ websites, dramatically increasing their
satisfaction and enabling us to increase our business results."

"Cloud Provider conducted elaborate
testing on Mellanox’s IB solutions, using a variety of deployment
scenarios," said Kevin Deierling, VP marketing at Mellanox. "Looking at the test
results, IB’s key benefits – extreme low latency, scalability, high throughput
per port and price/performance – were apparent. Mellanox IB was the obvious
choice for Cloud Provider and for all customers looking to deploy cloud
computing solutions with high-performance compute and high-capacity storage."