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SUNNYVALE, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel, Mar 30, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) —-Mellanox(R: 30.4, -0.99, -3.15%) Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX: 8.59, -0.01, -0.12%) (TASE: MLNX: 8.59, -0.01, -0.12%), a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage, today announced that its leading 40Gb/s InfiniBand ConnectX(R: 30.4, -0.99, -3.15%) adapter and InfiniScale(R: 30.4, -0.99, -3.15%) IV-based blade switch have been integrated across the new line of HP ProLiant G6 server blades for the HP BladeSystem c-Class platform. The new HP ProLiant G6 server blades incorporate Intel’s recently announced Xeon(R: 30.4, -0.99, -3.15%) Processor 5500 Series (formerly codenamed “Nehalem”), fueling the need for InfiniBand’s industry-leading CPU utilization and bandwidth capabilities. According to Gartner*, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR: undefined, undefined, undefined%) for blade server shipments from 2008 through 2013 is forecasted to be 20.8% and to reach more than 2.5 million units in 2013, representing the fastest-growing server form factor over the next five years. 

Anything we can do to innovate the platform has to be a good thing, I’ll need to read up more about their new adapter for the rack and blade server platforms. Improvements in energy efficiency, performance and connectivity need to continue as we scale up the infrastructure, move towards shared centralized platforms, interesting, do check it out.

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