St. Albans, United Kingdom (October 30, 2014) - Boston Limited, now in its 24th year as the industry's preferred supplier of bespoke and high end server, storage and HPC solutions, in conjunction with Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems, is pleased to announce a complete end-to-end Ethernet connectivity bundle for 10GbE, 40GbE and even 56GbE at a staggering 40% off regular pricing.
Incorporating a switch, two PCIe adapter cards, software licenses, cables and a support contract, the end-to-end bundle represents the flexibility to leverage one platform to test multiple speeds and protocols creating the perfect platform to test new technologies while maximizing investment protection, Thanks to the strong partnership between Boston Limited and Mellanox Technologies, access to advanced technology is now offered at a price point, never before available.
The new end-to-end bundle offers integrators and users the following key benefits:
- Low physical footprint with improved rack density
- Low latency
- High bandwidth (up to 56GbE per port)
- Improved performance of OpenStack environments with various compatible Mellanox plug-ins
- VXLAN/NVGRE hardware offloads for cloud setups
- iSCSI, iSER and RMDA (RoCE) hardware acceleration
- Massively reduced purchase price
Mr Manoj Nayee, Managing Director of Boston Limited, says, "We're astounded by the low cost offer which we and Mellanox are able to bring to our customers today. It's enabling a number of our partners to kick start 10GbE projects that were previously unaffordable; and it's really driving technology forward with the ability to test high bandwidth applications on 40Gb and 56Gb on the same platform future proofing their investment."
Syd Virdi, EMEA Distribution Manager at Mellanox Technologies, says "We're pleased to be able to work with partners like Boston to provide 10GbE technology to the mass market through our exclusive offer. No longer will 10GbE be a future technology for our customers - it's today."