"By working with Mellanox, we will be able to offer our customers efficient, high performing InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions", stated Gary Gammon, senior vice president, enterprise marketing, Bell Micro. "Mellanox is a leader in this space, and the company offers cost effective solutions without sacrificing performance or flexibility in the data centre."

"Bell Micro is a global, specialist distributor of a wide range of high-tech products, solutions and services", stated Marc Sultzbaugh, vice president of worldwide sales at Mellanox Technologies. "We are confident that Bell Micro will help us effectively and efficiently bring Mellanox's industry-leading connectivity products to the data centre server and storage market."

Mellanox's industry-leading ConnectX-2 Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) adapter cards are designed to drive the full performance of high-speed 40Gb/s InfiniBand and 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet fabrics. Built with Mellanox's 4th generation InfiniScale IV InfiniBand switch device, Mellanox 20 and 40Gb/s InfiniBand switches, with FabricIT fabric management software, provide the highest-performing fabric solution by delivering high-bandwidth and low-latency to enterprise data centers, high-performance computing and embedded environments. BridgeX BX4010 is the first VPI gateway allowing data centres to deploy I/O consolidation solutions using InfiniBand or Ethernet as the convergence fabric of choice. The company's cables are a cost-effective solution for connecting InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters and switches, extending the benefits and reliability of Mellanox's high-performance InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters throughout the network.