Mellanox Technologies has released its Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) appliance with Software Defined Networking support (UFM-SDN), allowing IT administrators to effectively manage and optimise their data centre resources from a centralised location. Agnostic to the cluster operating system, the UFM-SDN appliance will be released along with version 4.0 of the company’s UFM software, which includes extended monitoring history and multi-site management capabilities.