Intel's family of adapter, the Intel' Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520 with SFP+ connectivity, is the flexible & scalable Ethernet adapter for today's demanding data center environments. Data center networks are being pushed to their limits. The escalating deployments of servers with multi-core processors & demanding applications such as High Performance Computing (HPC), database clusters, & video-on-demand are driving the need for 10 Gbps connections. Customers require flexible & scalable I/O solutions to meet the rigorous requirements of running mission-critical applications in virtualized & unified storage environments.