Intel's family of adapters, the Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520 is the adapters 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 and demanding applications such as High Performance Computing (HPC), database clusters, and video-on-demand are driving the need for 10 Gbps connections. Customers require the rigorous requirements of running mission-critical applications in virtualized.