Dual- and Single-Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapters Provide Ultimate Flexibility and Scalability in Virtual and Unified Storage Environments Intel's new family of Intel® Ethernet X520 Server Adapters are the most flexible and scalable Ethernet 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 Gigabit connections. Customers require flexible and scalable I/O solutions to meet the rigorous requirements of running mission-critical applications in virtualized and unified storage environments.