October 01, 2012
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel, Sept. 27 — Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced that its end-to-end InfiniBand solutions have been selected to connect Atlantic.Net (www.atlantic.net) cloud infrastructures. Atlantic.Net is a leading cloud hosting provider that operates a massively scalable and secure cloud hosting platform. Utilizing Mellanox’s InfiniBand cost-effectiveness and scalability advantages, Atlantic.Net’s cloud servers deliver performance optimized application services at lower costs.
“Mellanox’s InfiniBand server and storage interconnect solution is a great compliment to our industrial-grade cloud infrastructure to provide the fastest and most robust cloud on the market. Using QDR InfiniBand, we are able to perform server provisioning in just seconds and provide extremely fast disk performance at 40Gb/s,” said Adnan Raja, director of business development at Atlantic.Net. “Mellanox InfiniBand has enabled us to dramatically reduce our cloud infrastructure costs and therefore provide better services to our customers. We will continue to enhance our offerings with many new features in development to provide a unique cloud experience that offers speed, reliability and ease of use.”
“Mellanox’s InfiniBand solutions lead the industry with performance, reliability and high availability, improving cloud infrastructure return-on-investment while helping providers to reduce their capital and operational expenses,” said David Barzilai, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “Leveraging InfiniBand’s performance, efficiency and scalability capabilities, Atlantic.Net is able to provide its customers with a high-performance, reliable and scalable on-demand public cloud hosting platform.”
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About Mellanox
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 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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About Atlantic.Net
Atlantic.Net is a market-leading Hosting Solutions Provider recognized for providing exceptional business hosting service, simplifying complex technologies, and building a brand that businesses trust since 1994. Atlantic.Net specializes in providing Cloud Servers, Colocation, Dedicated Servers and Virtualization Hosting Services. Atlantic.Net owns and operates a SSAE 16 (SOC 1) TYPE II (Formerly SAS 70) audited and certified data center infrastructure and is dedicated to implementing tailored hosting solutions that enable clients to enjoy the benefits of cost savings.
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