Thursday, October 30, 2014

Mellanox NICs Support Microsoft Open CloudServer and Open Compute

Mellanox Technologies announced its 10 and 40GbE NIC will support the new Microsoft Open CloudServer (OCS) specification “version 2”.  The ConnectX-3 Pro OCP-based 10/40GbE NICs with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and overlay network offloads offer optimized application latency and performance while maintaining extremely low system power consumption.



The OCS specification version 2 includes significant new performance enhancements to foster more efficient data centers and the adoption of cloud computing.

Mellanox also announced its 40GbE NICs support the recently released Open Compute Project (OCP) 2.0 server and storage specification.

http://www.mellanox.com