Background
Company: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
Who is Mellanox?
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance.
Led by former Galileo Technology co-founder, Eyal Waldman, Mellanox was founded in 1999 as an integrated circuit manufacturer, and progressed over the course of a decade to include a variety of end-to-end interconnect solutions. Mellanox has headquarters in Israel and California, boasts nearly 3,000 employees and business partners throughout the world.
Successful Innovation
The Challenge
As the technological orientation of business increases, businesses are producing and consuming more data than ever. The exponential growth of data in nearly every industry, from banking to biosciences to government, requires advanced systems for effectively managing processor performance in light of the ever increasing of processor cores. In the matrix of data and data storage, facile communication links are the lynchpin of successful data management for enterprise.
The Innovation
Mellanox’s various products and solutions unleash business potential with faster, more effective, real-time data processing and analytics. Mellanox offers interconnect products and solutions including adapters, switches, software and silicon for a range of markets including high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage, telecom and financial services. Mellanox solutions contain performance-enhancing features like faster application run-times and smart offloading that increase effectiveness and maximize the return on data centers’ investment.
Global Impact
Mellanox technologies support the world’s biggest platforms, including Facebook and Paypal. With offices, strategic partnerships, and customers on every continent, Mellanox is the world’s leader for interconnect solutions. More than this, Mellanox technologies have been integrated into the world’s most advanced supercomputers (including the world’s largest in Wuxi, China), speeding up the computers’ deep learning and AI functions that are launching humanity into previously unknown heights of knowledge.