Mellanox on Monday announced that is latency-sensitive ConnectX-2 EN controller is now available on the new HP NC542m Dual Port Flex-10 10GbE BLc Adapter directly from HP for the company’s HP BladeSystem c-Class servers. The HP NC542m provides full bandwidth on both ports simultaneously with low power at 8.5 watts maximum. The NC542m also supports low standard TCP/IP application latency at less than 8us and supports an internal RDMA acceleration engine to further reduce the latency to well under 6us. The NC542m is VMware Ready certified for VMware vSphere 4.The adapter is available today through the HP website.
Deni Connor is the principal of Storage Strategies NOW (SSG-NOW) which was founded in 2007. Deni is a well-known Servers expert, who was previously a reporter for IDG’s Network World. In addition, Connor worked in marketing and editorial positions for Novell, IBM, Control Data, Radix International, Thomas-Conrad and Networking Solutions magazine. SSG-NOW is located in Austin, Texas.
Deni is a regular contributor in both print and online for Network World and authors NWW’s twice-weekly Storage News Alert Newsletter with a circulation of over 26,000 subscribers.
In a previous and long ago life, Connor is known as a Novell NetWare expert and co-author of IDG's NetWare for Dummies and several other books on networking the NetWare way.