With NVIDIA EGX A100, enterprises can build scalable micro data centers at points of action—retail stores, hospitals, factories, and more—with increased levels of security to protect streaming data at the edge. Traditionally, modern workloads and data center designs impose significant networking overhead on CPU cores. But with the Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNIC, EGX A100 can handle virtualization faster, more efficiently, and affordably. Additionally, the SmartNIC provides enhanced security to detect and block malicious activity. The SmartNIC can inspect network traffic, block attacks, and encrypt transmissions, eliminating the need to route all incoming and outgoing data back to the CPU and across the PCIe bus.