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Mellanox awarded best interconnect for Chinese energy industry
China Computerworld Research honors Mellanox with “2012 Innovative Solution for IT Service Award” for its world-leading InfiniBand solutions
Mellanox Technologies InfiniBand solution was named by China Computerworld (CCW) Research as best interconnect solution for China’s energy industry. Mellanox won the “2012 Innovative Solution for IT Service Award” based on combined scores that evaluated the innovation, effectiveness and influence of the solution.
CCW Research is one of the most influential research firms in China and was created by the Chinese government to provide research and analysis for the country’s IT industry. CCW holds the annual Innovative Solutions for IT Service Awards program in order to recommend the best solutions for leading Chinese markets including financial, government, education, health care and energy. More than 260 entries were received for this year’s awards.
“An increasing number of industrial users are concerned about the effectiveness of IT services, innovative applications, and want to learn about advanced IT technologies,” said Chang Guo, vice president at China Computerworld Research. “Mellanox was selected as a top recipient for this award based on the performance and innovation of their interconnect solutions.”
Mellanox’s fast interconnect provides the best price, performance and power for maximizing server and storage data processing capabilities. Mellanox’s end-to-end InfiniBand interconnect solution provides companies in the energy industry with the highest performance and scalability, as well as full integration with legacy systems for a variety of mission critical applications. Mellanox’s end-to-end Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) data center interconnect solutions – based on InfiniBand and 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet – offer higher performance than traditional 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet technologies, reducing data center cost and complexity.
“CCW’s recognition of Mellanox as the top interconnect solution for the energy industry validates continued demand for the performance, efficiency and return-on-investment that our offerings provide,” said David Barzilai, vice president of marketing at Mellanox. “Mellanox is the leading data center interconnect provider given the high performance and scalability of our solutions, enabling best application performance and ROI.”