Endace and Mellanox Co-Market Monitoring Solution

Endace Limited, in network monitoring solutions, and Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced they will co-market a continuous monitoring solution for InfiniBand clusters. The currently available 10Gb/s NinjaI – an InfiniBand Tap Matrix switch and monitoring probe – will be installed in the Mellanox cluster center in Santa Clara, and will provide ready test access for any of Mellanox’s customers.

"Enterprise customers who operate large InfiniBand clusters have been requesting tools that enable continuous performance monitoring in order to analyze and tune InfiniBand-based fabrics. Our testing has confirmed that Endace offers a strong solution," said Wayne Augsburger, VP of Business Development at Mellanox Technologies. "We are working together with Endace to drive this capability into enterprise data centers today while simultaneously adding monitoring capability for 20Gb/s and 40Gb/s InfiniBand-based fabrics."

Customers connect InfiniBand devices through the NinjaI switch, and then select any port for monitoring using the Endace NinjaBox monitoring platform. Wireshark plug-ins are also available for dissecting InfiniBand datagrams and providing post processing analysis.

"The testing and joint go to market initiative sprang directly from joining the Mellanox Marketing Alliance Program," said Stephen Gleave, VP of Marketing at Endace. "As respective leaders in InfiniBand development and network monitoring solutions, Mellanox and Endace continue to broaden the appeal of InfiniBand to large enterprise customers. Mellanox is recognized as a major innovator of this interconnect technology and we share the goal of validating InfiniBand’s exceptionally fast, predictable, and resilient capabilities," Gleave added.