Data Center Strategy Helps Migration from Physical to Virtual to Cloud

(Business News & Technology News, 18 Dec 2009)

The challenge in today’s data center consists of transitioning to a virtualized environment while leveraging existing network investments. The migration of the data center to a virtualized infrastructure means bringing visibility of virtual machines (VMs) to the network level and solving the department divide between switches and server staffs that has been introduced with virtualization. Finally, organizations seek to avoid approaches that strand their assets and tie them to proprietary architectures.

Extreme Networks Inc. recently presented its data center network vision during the Gartner’s Data Center Conference in Las Vegas Nevada, providing a blueprint for the critical data center transition ahead, migrating organizations from a physical network, to a virtual network to location-independent cloud networks.

“Extreme Networks has developed a network infrastructure solution that accommodates the evolving technology landscape in the data center,” said Gordon Stitt, Chairman of the Board and co-founder of Extreme Networks. “Our data center infrastructure solution allows users to migrate from a traditional or ‘physical’ infrastructure to a virtual one, without forcing a certain technology, or operating methodology on the user.”

Extreme Networks' approach to the data center is based on a virtualized network that brings insight at the virtual port level to the network and can dynamically track and manage VMs and apply policies as VMs move across the network.

Extreme Networks delivers a robust data center infrastructure that is 40G and 100G ready and addresses future scalability requirements. Extreme’s versatile data center network architecture is fortified with a high capacity, multiple terabit switching fabric in the core, 10 Gigabit Ethernet Top-of-Rack (ToR) and End-of-Row solutions, based upon a non-blocking intelligent (L2/L3) architecture that can handle and distribute massive computing loads.

Extreme Networks complements scalability and high performance of Ethernet with software advancements as part of its ExtremeXOS XML-based software foundation. This opens the door to customized and automated management and configuration, powerful cross platform stacking and tools that promote energy efficient operation of the network.

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