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Interop Panel Discusses the Relevance of SDN

By William | Published May 13, 2013

David F. Carr at Information Week covers the keynote panel at Interop and their conversation regarding the future of SDN and network admin.

The point of SDN is to make networks easy to configure and reconfigure in software rather than hardware, with many more networking functions migrating from being embedded capabilities of a network appliance to being defined in software. Network systems are migrating incrementally in that direction as networks follow the same path toward virtualization as servers and storage, he said. Ultimately, the goal is to provide every data center with the flexibility associated with cloud computing.

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Mellanox Reveals a Flexible Alternative to Closed-Code Ethernet Switches

By William | Published May 2, 2013

Mellanox introduces an open Ethernet switch initiative designed to give users custom designs and superb return on investment.

The market’s move toward SDN and open source networking offers a variety of advantages that help drive data center productivity and currently is not available with traditional proprietary software,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “Our demonstration with Quagga highlights the power of Open Ethernet to provide the capability to fully customize open source software packages on top of Mellanox 40 and 56GbE switches, enabling our customers to add differentiation and competitive advantages in their networking infrastructure while reducing cost.”

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Penguin Computing Unveils Large-Scale Storage Platform

By William | Published April 30, 2013

Penguin Computing has revealed its new Cloud CS Storage Platform that will utilize Scality’s RING Organic Storage software.

Performance, availability and scalability requirements of large scale cloud businesses cannot be met with traditional IT approaches to storage, that typically excel in one of these areas and fall short in another,” said Charles Wuischpard, CEO Penguin Computing. “To meet the demands of our customers that require storage solutions at the petabyte scale we based our large scale storage appliance Icebreaker CS on software from Scality. With its distributed no-shared architecture and its sophisticated Advanced Resilience Configuration, Scality RING offers excellent storage scalability and great availability without compromising performance.”

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Video: Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB)

By Rich Brueckner | Published April 27, 2013

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Ali Ayoub from Mellanox presents: Ethernet over InfiniBand (EoIB).

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Clouds at a Distance – Can RDMA Enhance Collaborative Video Workflows?

By Rich Brueckner | Published April 23, 2013

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Tom Coughlin from Coughlin Associates presents: Clouds at a Distance – Can RDMA Enhance Collaborative Video Workflows?

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Mellanox Introduces ConnectX-3 Pro Adapter

By William | Published April 18, 2013

Mellanox is speeding up VXLAN with an innovative hardware solution that enables large-scale cloud infrastructures.

To meet the growing demand of cloud computing services, cloud providers must be able to take full advantage of new software techniques to scale-up their cloud networks without reducing performance or efficiency of the infrastructure,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “With ConnectX-3 Pro, cloud providers will be able to easily scale and grow their business and provide new value-add services while reducing the cost of their cloud infrastructure; ushering in the age of Cloud 2.0

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Video: The New Style of IT – HP Moonshot Update for Moabcon 2013

By Rich Brueckner | Published April 18, 2013

In this video from Moabcon 2013, Dick Bland and Jérôme Labat from HP present: The New Style of IT: HP Update for Moabcon 2013.

Cloud, Mobility, Security, and Big Data are transforming what the business expects from IT resulting in a “New Style of IT.” The result of alternative thinking from a proven industry leader, HP Moonshot is the world’s first software defined server that will accelerate innovation while delivering breakthrough efficiency and scale.

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Video: Welcome to the Generation of Open Ethernet

By Rich Brueckner | Published April 10, 2013

In this video, Mellanox CEO Eyal Waldman presents: Welcome to the Generation of Open Ethernet.

Open” is the keyword for today’s world of cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications. Open Ethernet, a new initiative led by Mellanox, will enable a new era of open data centers. It will give IT managers complete control of their networks to achieve better performance and lower costs. It will sweep away proprietary stacks, proprietary routing methods, and proprietary management software. Open Ethernet will expand open source into the data center to allow vendors and users to design the networks they want at costs they can afford. Open Ethernet means open code, access to open source management software, support for standard OpenFlow controllers, and much more. It will allow data centers to use commodity hardware and open source software to build the powerful switches, routers, and appliances they need for their purposes.

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Free Ebook: NAS Optimization for Dummies

By Rich Brueckner | Published April 5, 2013

Our friends at Avere are offering a free copy of NAS Optimization for Dummies.

Big NAS performance comes from your ability to scale, eliminate sources of latency, and gain the advantages of the cloud. Get started with Avere Systems’ Special Edition of NAS Optimization for Dummies by Allen G. Taylor.

In this book, you’ll find:

  • How to configure NAS storage for optimal performance
  • Ways to reduce the cost of upgrades as your storage needs grow
  • How to minimize the impact of multiple users hitting the storage systems at the same time

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Video: Hands-on Training: Know Your Cluster Bottlenecks and Maximize Performance

By Rich Brueckner | Published March 29, 2013

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Dan Waxman from Mellanox provides a hands-on training for InfiniBand entitled: Hands-on Training: Know Your Cluster Bottlenecks and Maximize Performance.

Depending on the application of the user’s system, it may be necessary to modify the default configuration of the network adapters and the system/chipset configuration. This slide deck describes common tuning parameters, settings & procedures that can improve performance of the network adapter. Different Server & NIC vendors may have different recommendations for the values to be set – but the general tuning approach should be similar. For the hands-on demo we will utilize Mellanox ConnectX adapters – thus we will implement the recommended settings issued by Mellanox.

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