Mellanox Ethernet Solutions and Cumulus Networks Enable Leading Cloud
Provider to Deliver and Manage a Wide Range of On-Demand Services in the
Most Scalable and Efficient Way
Company Website:
http://www.mellanox.com
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel -- (Business Wire)
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 end-to-end
Mellanox Ethernet solutions have been selected by NTT
Communications ICT Solutions (NTT ICT) to accelerate their
multi-cloud data centers. NTT ICT selected industry-leading 25G and 100G
Ethernet networking technology from Mellanox including: Spectrum-based
switches running Cumulus Linux, ConnectX® adapters, and LinkX cables and
transceivers. NTT ICT, a premium global IT provider delivering solutions
to Australian enterprise and government clients, selected state of the
art Mellanox Ethernet technology to enable high-performance,
low-latency, and easy to consume cloud-based services, and provide
customers multi-cloud service broker solutions.
Enterprises are increasingly adopting multi-cloud strategies to drive
their digital transformation. However, managing these multi-cloud
platforms can present a challenge. Accelerating their core network with
Mellanox’s end-to-end 25G and 100G Ethernet Solutions and the agile,
automated, and open networking software from Cumulus Networks, NTT ICT
can now offer multi-cloud service broker services. Customers are now
able to quickly connect services hosted in NTT ICT’s data centers to
other cloud providers and easily consume IP Transit, Storage as a
Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and other managed cloud
services.
“We are excited to collaborate with Mellanox and Cumulus to integrate
the next generation of software-defined networking into our data
centers,” said Tarquin Bellinger, COO at NTT ICT. “In Mellanox and
Cumulus, we have found partners that we are confident in to help us
deliver a cutting edge, NetOps-driven network for future growth. The new
core network will enable us to serve as a multi-cloud service broker
with expanded capabilities and easy automation management, offering low
latency, fast and scalable services to other cloud providers and our
customers.”
“As a global IT leader and critical business driver, NTT ICT is
leveraging Mellanox end-to-end Ethernet solutions to broker, deliver and
manage a best-in-class, broad range of services to 3rd party
cloud providers,” said Kevin Deierling, vice president of marketing,
Mellanox Technologies. “We are pleased to provide NTT ICT with the
infrastructure needed to expand their business offering to include
multi-cloud service brokering.”
“NTT ICT is an outstanding example of a company that is using a modern,
web-scale approach to build a network today that will scale to support
growth for years to come,” said Josh Leslie, CEO of Cumulus Networks.
“We are excited to work with our partners at Mellanox and the team at
NTT ICT to roll out Cumulus Linux and Cumulus NetQ to support their
developer operations and continuous delivery efforts, enabling network
agility across their entire suite of multi-cloud service offerings.”
The Mellanox and Cumulus smart interconnect solutions provide NTT ICT
and its customers with a range of benefits:
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Greater agility – Mellanox Open Ethernet Switches combined with
Cumulus Linux network operating system, allows NTT ICT to deploy new
customer multi-cloud services in minutes and simplify maintenance,
using common automation tools;
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Improved uptime – Automation and Continuous Delivery practices are key
to achieving improved uptime. By utilizing Cumulus VX for prototyping
networking operations and Cumulus NetQ for intelligence into the
health and connectivity of the entire network, system upgrades can be
pre-tested in DevOps environment and then transferred to the
production platform using automation to ensure operational insight and
reduce the risk of human error.
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Lower data center operational costs - Mellanox Ethernet and Cumulus
Linux solutions are cost effective and offer advanced automation,
visualization, and analytics that reduces upfront investment and makes
management easier, thus providing a strong return on investment.
Supporting Resources:
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end
Ethernet and InfiniBand 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 Cumulus Networks
Cumulus Networks is leading the transformation of bringing web-scale
networking to enterprise cloud. As the only systems solution that fully
unlocks the vertical network stacks of the modern data center, Cumulus
Linux allows companies of all sizes to affordably build and efficiently
operate their networks just like the world’s largest data centers. By
allowing operators to use standard hardware components, Cumulus Networks
offers unprecedented operational speed and agility, at the industry’s
most competitive cost. For more information visit www.cumulusnetworks.com.
About NTT Communications ICT Solutions
NTT Communications solves the world’s technology challenges by helping
enterprises overcome complexity and risk in their ICT environments with
managed IT infrastructure solutions. These solutions are backed by our
worldwide infrastructure, including industry leading, global Tier 1
public and private networks reaching over 190 countries/regions, and
more than 400,000m2 of the world’s most advanced data center
facilities. Our global professional services teams provide consultation
and architecture for the resiliency and security required for your
business success, and our scale and global capabilities are unsurpassed.
Combined with NTT Data, NTT Security, NTT DOCOMO and Dimension Data, we
are NTT Group. www.nttict.com
Note: Mellanox, ConnectX, Mellanox Spectrum, and LinkX are trademarks
of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of
their respective owners.
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