SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Extreme
Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXTR), today announced the
company has joined the VMware NSX™ partner ecosystem. Extreme
Networks and VMware are collaborating to enable interoperability
between the Extreme Summit® x670-G2 and Summit x770 series switches
and the VMware NSX network virtualization platform. The resulting
interoperability will enable Extreme Networks' customers and
resellers to better manage and control their software-defined data
centers and create new opportunities in this burgeoning market.
VMware architected NSX, a critical pillar to the
software-defined data center, to extend the benefits of
virtualization to the network. VMware NSX extensibility allows
ecosystem partners to provide customers with a broad portfolio of
network automation, security, application delivery and operations
services that allow them to holistically manage their physical and
virtual network environments.
Extreme Networks' data center switching technologies offer
customers cutting edge density as well as flexible design and
deployments options. Extreme Networks' solutions for the
software-defined data center will be on display at VMworld® 2015
US, taking place August 30 –
September 3 in San Francisco, CA in booth no. 2217.
"Today's software-defined data center continues to evolve and
Extreme Networks and VMware are well positioned to deliver on the
requirements for scale, performance, and agility," said
Eric Broockman, chief technology
officer and executive vice president of engineering at Extreme
Networks. "Interoperability between our switch platform and VMware
NSX means new market opportunities for Extreme Networks' channel
partners, which in turn, enables customers to realize the benefits
of the software-defined data center."
"We welcome Extreme Networks to the VMware NSX partner
ecosystem," said Howard Hall, senior
director, Global Technology Partner Organization, VMware.
"Our objective with VMware NSX extensibility is to realize the
promise of network virtualization itself – empowering customers to
speed the rate of innovation through faster network provisioning,
enhanced security, and reduced complexity – which results in
better, faster, and more cost-effective IT services."
VMware NSX is software that virtualizes the network and delivers
the entire networking and security model from L2-L7 in software.
The platform decouples the network from the underlying hardware,
yet takes advantage of the existing network infrastructure without
changes to enable new levels of service delivery speed, agility and
cost reductions. VMware NSX delivers a completely new operational
model for networking that breaks through current network barriers
and enables data center operators to achieve orders of magnitude
better agility and improved economics.
For more information on the VMware NSX partner ecosystem, visit:
http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/technology-partners.html
About Extreme
Networks
Extreme Networks,
Inc. (EXTR) is a software and services-led networking
solutions' company committed to solving IT's toughest networking
challenges. Extreme Networks is headquartered in San
Jose, CA with more than 14,000 customers in over 80 countries.
For more information, visit Extreme's website.
Extreme Networks, the Extreme Networks logo and Summit
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limitation statements as to the features, performance, and benefits
of Extreme Networks products, are forward-looking
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the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date. Because such
statements deal with future events, they are subject to risks and
uncertainties, including network design and actual results of use
of the product in different environments. We undertake no
obligation to update the forward-looking information in this
release. Other important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially are contained in the Company's 10-Qs and 10-Ks
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