SUNNYVALE, Calif., and YOKNEAM, Israel, Nov. 6 – Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced a live, interactive joint webinar with industry-leading cloud server hosting providers ProfitBricks and Atlantic.Net, Inc. on technology and ROI considerations for deploying scalable and faster cloud computing infrastructures while reducing CAPEX and OPEX. The webinar will also address several aspects of cloud computing including the main advantages of moving a business into the cloud.

What: Enhancing Cloud Providers to Deliver Revolutionary Throughput Performance and Efficiency with Mellanox InfiniBand

When: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 10:00 am Pacific Time / 1:00 pm Eastern Time Register Today

"Mellanox is delighted to collaborate with two innovative and promising public cloud providers: Atlantic.Net, Inc. and ProfitBricks on this joint webinar," said Gilad Shainer, vice president of market development at Mellanox Technologies. "Our end-to-end cloud solution has been adopted by a growing number of public cloud providers to increase infrastructure performance while reducing CAPEX and OPEX. This allows for a better service with a more cost-effective package to their end user."

"Our participation in the free webinar demonstrates our ongoing commitment to help educate our community about the latest technologies available to them," said Josh Simon, Director of Data Center Services at Atlantic.Net, Inc. "This is a perfect opportunity for organizations to learn about the latest trends in cloud computing and how it relates to enhancing their computing power by getting more for less."

"The cloud empowers businesses of all sizes to rapidly access compute and networking technology that was once only available to the Fortune 50," said Bob Rizika, CEO, ProfitBricks USA. "ProfitBricks is pleased to support Mellanox in championing high performance software defined networks in cloud computing infrastructures."

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services.

Atlantic.Net is a market-leading hosting solutions provider renowned for offering exceptional infrastructure as a service, simplifying complex technologies, and building a brand businesses have trusted since 1994. Serving as a trusted advisor to the global community with its innovative, industry-specific hosting solutions, the company is dedicated to implementing custom-tailored technology that enables organizations to enjoy cost savings that reinvigorate their bottom lines. Atlantic.Net operates SSAE 16 Type II audited and certified hosting solutions platforms to assist businesses around the globe with advanced IT services including cloud hosting, colocation and virtualization.

ProfitBricks is a global cloud infrastructure provider with a new platform engineered from the ground up to solve many of the problems of 1st generation cloud platforms. ProfitBricks was founded in 2010 by Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, previous cofounders of 1&1, which is a majority part of United Internet AG (UDIRF, $3.9B Mkt Cap). With funding from the founders and United Internet, ProfitBricks has built the world's first true virtual data center technology enabling flexible user defined instances with live vertical scaling capability, class leading cloud storage allotments– all with simple and transparent minute-based billing. Customers can deploy existing and new applications on the ProfitBricks public cloud, or design and build their own private cloud network– all without capital or the limitations, risk and overhead of traditional co-location and dedicated hosting solutions. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany and Boston, MA, ProfitBricks is comprised of over 100 team members from 16 countries.

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Source: Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.