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Distributor recommends
Mellanox’s products for data
centre efficiency
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Networks Unlimited, a value-added distributor, has
welcomed the deployment of Mellanox’s 25GbE and
100GbE ConnectX-4 EN family of Ethernet adapters.
It says Mellanox’s products allow companies to save
on capital spending since there is no need to convert
data centres’ legacy infrastructures. In addition, it says
Mellanox’s open source DPDK software helps prevent
denial of service attacks in data centres.
T
he outstanding business value
delivered by cloud technology has
seen numerous small businesses
boom into global giants. “Cloud computing
is the not-so-secret key to business success,”
says Anton Jacobsz, managing director of
value-added distributor, Networks Unlimited.
“For years, the mantra for good business
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has been to have a brilliant support system
in place so that executives can focus on
the business at hand, and cloud offers an
excellent IT core on which to build and grow
a business.”
He highlights further benefits such as cost
reductions, due to cloud-based operations
requiring fewer staff and less hardware.
“And, the cloud is the ideal playground for
apps, the shop door to many businesses
today,” he said.
He points out that the cloud division of the
Alibaba Group, the world’s largest online
and mobile e-commerce company, showed
a 96% growth from the first fiscal quarter of
2017 to the first fiscal quarter of 2018.
“It has also been widely reported that it
has been growing its investment in the
cloud and building new data centres,” said
Jacobsz. “Naturally, we are most pleased
that Mellanox’s 25GbE and 100GbE
ConnectX-4 EN family of Ethernet adapters
is deployed in these new data centres. We
hope African businesses and entrepreneurs
are taking notice.”
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