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Evolving Solutions has been named winner of the award for 'Outstanding Virtualization System Solution' in the annual IBM Beacon Awards competition, honoring IBM Business Partners worldwide for their ingenuity, innovation, customer satisfaction and achievements in providing business solutions. This year's award was won on the strength of an x86 Virtualization Solution designed for a major sugar marketing cooperative. Originally running 20 applications on 30 HP servers, the customer's storage was close to capacity and its datacenter had become hard to manage.

Mellanox announced its ConnectX 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers have been selected for LAN on Motherboard (LOM) applications across Supermicro's family of server products, eliminating the need for separate add-in I/O cards. Supermicro is a provider of performance and power optimized server boards, chassis, and rack and blade systems that target data center, high-performance computing, workstation, storage networks and standalone server environments. Mellanox's ConnectX 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller is a single-chip solution that provides I/O performance, small footprint, and low power consumption making it ideal for Supermicro's LOM requirements. In addition, ConnectX provides virtualization acceleration engines and integrated Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support delivering valuable virtual machine scalability, I/O consolidation, and data center infrastructure future-proofing benefits.