Japanese Sakura Internet Selects Mellanox IB Rather Than 10GbE and FC

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced that Japanese Internet provider Sakura Internet has selected Mellanox IB technology for its new cloud hosting infrastructure.

It utilizes IB as the single interconnect solution for both compute and
storage, instead of 10GbE and FC. It reduced their capital and
operational costs thanks to IB cost / performance benefits, enabling
Sakura to bring an economy of scale to Japanese IT. In addition, IB has
enabled Sakura Internet to increase their cloud hosting scalability and
handle the increased number of services they offer to their users.

"In order to host the increasing number of customers in our cloud
infrastructure, including social gamers, developers, and consumers’
streaming media, we needed to obtain a solution that will help us to
process very high incoming data traffic," said Ken Washikita, GM of Research Center at Sakura Internet. "Mellanox
IB delivers the needed performance capabilities that we could not get
from 10GbE or FC. Moreover, utilizing IB as the sole interconnect for
both compute and storage helped us to increase the cloud efficiency
while reducing both capital and operating expenses."

"With the ever-increasing amounts of rich data in the cloud, service
providers must have a scalable interconnect solution to provide the
necessary throughput and communication among servers and storage," said Marc Sultzbaugh, VP of WW sales at Mellanox. "Leveraging
the performance, efficiency and scalability of Mellanox’s interconnect
solutions, Sakura Internet is able to provide its customers with a
reliable, scalable and flexible cloud services architecture."