In data centres today, multi-core servers are the fastest growing consumer of power with energy costs well exceeding the server purchase cost. Network intensive applications running on the CPU and memory subsystems can quickly be bottlenecked by inadequate I/O resources, resulting in idle CPU and memory cycles wasting dollars and power. Mellanox's interconnect products, based on InfiniBand and Ethernet technologies, play a key role in energy reduction in servers, storage and virtualized environments by reducing CPU processing overhead and providing the ability to carry all data centre traffic types over a single, low power adapter as opposed to multiple adapters with a number of network infrastructure systems.

"High power consumption is a significant pain point for ever-expanding data centres. The industry has seen many recent innovations in the areas of cooler CPUs, server virtualization, and blade servers. With power consumption as low as 3.5W per 20Gb/s port, Mellanox's adapters have the ability to consolidate networking, storage and clustering I/O to complements those trends", stated Thad Omura, vice president of product marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "By taking advantage of how our interconnect products optimize multi-core server and storage power and performance, enterprises can optimize the number of servers needed for data centre applications. Our membership in the Green Grid demonstrates our continued commitment to energy efficiency in enterprise data centres worldwide."