SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel, Dec. 12, 2017 — Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that Tencent Cloud has adopted Mellanox interconnect solutions for its high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) public cloud offering. TencentCloud is a secure, reliable and high-performance public cloud service that integrates Tencent’s infrastructure capabilities with the advantages of a massive-user platform and ecosystem.

The Tencent Cloud infrastructure leverages Mellanox Ethernet and InfiniBand adapters, switches and cables to deliver advanced public cloud services. By taking advantage of Mellanox RDMA, in-network computing and other interconnect acceleration engines, Tencent Cloud can now offer high-performance computing services, as required by its users, to develop advanced applications and offer new services.

“Tencent Cloud is utilizing Mellanox interconnect and applications acceleration technology to help companies develop their next generation products and offer new and intelligent services,” said Wang Huixing, vice president of Tencent Cloud. “We are excited to work with Mellanox to integrate its world-leading interconnect technologies into our public cloud offerings, and plan to continue to scale our infrastructure product lines to meet the growing needs of our customers.”

“We are proud to partner with Tencent Cloud, who is leveraging our advanced interconnect technology to help build a leading high-performance computing and artificial intelligence-based public cloud infrastructure,” said Amir Prescher, senior vice president of business development at Mellanox Technologies. “Through Tencent Cloud, companies will benefit from Mellanox’s technology to build new products and services that can leverage faster and more efficient data analysis. We look forward to continuing to work with Tencent and expanding the use of Mellanox solutions in its cloud offering.”

Mellanox interconnect solutions deliver the highest efficiency for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, cloud, storage, and other applications.

About Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet smart 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.

About Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud is a leading global cloud service provider. A product of Tencent, Tencent Cloud was built with the expertise of teams who created innovative services like QQ, WeChat and Qzone. Tencent Cloud provides integrated cloud services such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, and is a one-stop service for enterprises seeking to adopt public cloud, hybrid cloud, private cloud and cloud-based financial services. It is also a pioneer in cutting edge web technologies such as Cloud Image, facial recognition, big data analytics, machine learning, audio/video technology and security protection. Tencent Cloud delivers integrated industry solutions for gaming, finance, e-commerce, tourism, online-to-offline services, governments, healthcare, online education, and smart hardware. It also provides general solutions with different functions, including online video, website set-up, hybrid cloud, big data, the WeChat eco-system and more. For more information, please visit https://www.qcloud.com/.

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Source: Mellanox