This LAN is your LAN: Storage world still keen on high-speed Ethernet, luckily for Mellanox

Hot on the heels of Intel's reported acquisitive interest, Ethernet and InfiniBand networker Mellanox has closed out its final quarter of 2018 with an Ethernet-boosted bottom line. Tallying with last year's reported results, increased demand for cloudy and hyperscale storage drove the uptake. For its fourth quarter of fiscal …

[Korev]

Omnipath

The earnings call was revealing about Intel’s competing Omni-Path InfiniBand products, with Mellanox president and CEO Eyal Waldman saying: "We're not seeing demand for Omni-Path almost at all ... So InfiniBand is gaining momentum and taking big market share from Omni-Path.”

A failing Omni-Path product tech would help explain Intel's interest in acquiring Mellanox.

I guess it's in Mellanox's interest to talk down a rival's technology. I hope Omnipath sticks around as its death would lead to there only being one type of HPC Internet available on machines that don't say Cray on them.

[Eric 23]

Didn't Intel buy Qlogic's infiniband line a few years back?

I realize a fair amount of vendors OEM Intel ethernet chips, but not sure Intel getting more of a monopoly is a good thing.