Escape Technology Awarded as a Mellanox PartnerFIRST Reseller into Media & Entertainment

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Escape Technology Awarded as a Mellanox PartnerFIRST Reseller into Media & Entertainment

Escape Technology is delighted to announce that we have just been appointed as Mellanox’s reseller into the Media and Entertainment arena. Having successfully met the relevant criteria’s for their PartnerFIRST program Escape has access to the full portfolio of Mellanox products including their Ethernet and InfiniBand adapter cards, network switches, cables and software.

Mellanox is a leading provider of high-throughput, low latency server and storage interconnects. They have a wide range of solutions that operate at FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 10/40/56GbE that have been optimised to reduce application wait time for data whilst dramatically increasing your ROI for your datacentres.

Having already earned a fantastic reputation and install base with HPC, Datacentre, Cloud, Storage and Financial services arenas, Escape will now work closely with Mellanox and our channel to successfully migrate all of these benefits over to bandwidth intensive media and broadcast workflows. To reaffirm this, top tier OEMs such as HP, Oracle, Dell, IBM, Bull, SGI, EMC, NetApp, LSI and many more all take advantage of Mellanox’s lead within the market to add value to their own ranges of server, storage and embedded appliances.

“Mellanox have a fantastic range of products and our technology and pricing advantage to the channel enables our clients to invest in the latest networking technologies from a trusted vendor at lower prices than lesser rivals in the marketplace” said Richard McGuinness, Escape Technology’s Director of Business Development. “We can now provide far more data throughput at a significantly lower cost than traditional 10GbE/1GbE, all backed up with Escape’s knowledge, expertise and services.”

Richard Hastie, Mellanox’s Director of EMEA Media/Entertainment Markets says, “We are delighted to have Escape Technology become a Mellanox PartnerFIRST reseller with a strong focus on the Media and Entertainment market. Digital effects manipulation, 3D rendering, 4K workflows, and other staples of today’s media production industry rely on rapid processing of enormous amounts of data. Mellanox’s solutions support most of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, and they bring the same high performance and reliability to the world of digital media.”