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Mellanox Technologies has announced that its ConnectX-2 InfiniBand adapters and InfiniBand switch blades, with Dell M-series server and storage blades, are providing leading database server and storage access for BTInet's new Oracle RAC deployment. BTInet's upgraded Oracle RAC environment will provide leading hosted data warehousing services, data reliability, and accelerated data access for their customer base.

"Our customers require growing levels of performance and scalability in their hosted data warehousing applications while ensuring data integrity and security," said Rob Morse, Systems & Systems Security Supervisor, at BTInet. "Integrating new Dell server and storage blades with high-performance InfiniBand interconnects from Mellanox enables us to provide a scalable level of service that meets our customer's database application requirements today and into the future."

"Hosting services today require high server-to-server and server-to-storage bandwidth, and low latency to deliver performance-intensive Oracle data warehouse services such as inventory tracking, data mining, and business intelligence tools to their subscribers and meet service level agreements," said John Monson, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "Our end-to-end, low latency InfiniBand connectivity solutions accelerate mission critical services such as Oracle data warehousing applications, enabling web hosting companies to provide their customers with increased performance, reliability of data and value."