Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 13 | Page 67

POWERED BY INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres Distributor recommends Mellanox’s products for data centre efficiency ///////////////////////////// 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 www.intelligentcio.com 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.” INTELLIGENTCIO 67