09 September 2008
Endace and Mellanox co-market InfiniBand monitoring solution
Endace® Limited (LSE/AIM: EDA), a world leader in network monitoring solutions, and Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based server and storage interconnect products, today announced they will co-market a continuous monitoring solution for InfiniBand clusters. The currently available 10Gb/s NinjaITM - an InfiniBandTM 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 NinjaITM 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 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.
CONTACTS:
Endace Limited
Joni Moore, PR Counsel (US) +1 508 308 7900
David Evans, PR Counsel (Europe) +44 (0)1291 626200
Steve Gleave, VP Marketing +1 703 964 3740
Bankside
Steve Liebmann or Simon Bloomfield (UK) +44 (0)20-7367-8888 / +44 (0)7802-888159
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, interconnect products to worldclass server, storage, and infrastructure OEMs servicing Fortune 500 data centers, the world’s most powerful supercomputers, and mission critical embedded applications. The company’s Virtual Protocol Interconnect™ (VPI) enables standard communication protocols to operate over any converged network (InfiniBand, Ethernet, Data Center Ethernet) with the same software solution. Utilizing proven networking, clustering, storage, virtualization and RDMA acceleration engines, VPI optimizes application performance, power consumption, workload agility, and total system efficiency while futureproofing T infrastructure.
Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and Yokneam, Israel. For more information, visit Mellanox at www.mellanox.com.