Mellanox Capital Invests in Storage Leaders Excelero and WekaIO
May 15 2019 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Strategic Investment Drives the Storage
Ecosystem for Advanced Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and
Machine Learning Workloads
Mellanox® Capital, the global investment arm of Mellanox
Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), today announced investments in
high performance storage leaders Excelero and WekaIO. Excelero, a
leader in high performance distributed block storage, has developed
the award-winning NVMesh Software Defined Storage to achieve the
highest performance and efficiency for web-scale applications.
WekaIO has developed Matrix™, the world’s fastest file system, to
accelerate application performance scaling for AI and data
intensive workloads. Both companies are leaders in their respective
block and file storage categories and together with Mellanox data
center interconnect solutions enable customers to fully take
advantage of the latest generation of high-speed NVMe Flash storage
solid state disks.
“Mellanox has long driven higher levels of data center
performance and efficiency by optimizing across the entire data
center stack,” said Nimrod Gindi, senior vice president of mergers
and acquisitions and head of investments, Mellanox Technologies.
“Faster storage needs faster networks to feed the ever-increasing
demand for data, by today’s advanced business analytics, AI, and
machine learning applications. Strategic partnerships with storage
leaders such as Excelero and WekaIO are critical to develop the
high-performance storage ecosystem and enable our customers to
achieve efficient and scalable data processing and analytics
capabilities to drive their businesses forward.”
“Excelero is a leader and disruptor in high-performance storage
for web-scale infrastructure, databases, technical computing, HPC
and machine learning,” said Lior Gal, CEO of Excelero. “Mellanox’s
low-latency networking and leading support for RDMA on both
Ethernet and InfiniBand help us deliver the fastest distributed
block storage solutions to our customers. We have partnered closely
with Mellanox and welcome their investment in Excelero.”
“WekaIO’s Matrix offers the highest bandwidth and lowest latency
file system, optimized for flash and other non-volatile storage
media,” said Liran Zvibel, CEO of WekaIO. “Deploying Matrix with
Mellanox Ethernet or InfiniBand networking delivers the lowest
latency storage solution for applications requiring shared access
to data; including Deep Learning, Finance, Life Sciences and
Electronic Design Automation (EDA). We are excited to have Mellanox
Capital invest in our company.”
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About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier
of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand smart 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, unlocking system performance and improving data
security. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products:
adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate
application performance and maximize business results for a wide
range of markets including cloud and hyperscale, high performance
computing, artificial intelligence, enterprise data centers, cyber
security, storage, financial services and more. More information is
available at: http://www.mellanox.com
Note: Mellanox is a registered trademark of
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of
their respective owners.
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