{"id":2381,"date":"2020-04-16T00:46:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2025-04-17T23:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:59:20","slug":"extreme-networks-continues-rapid-expansion-cloud-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/extreme-networks-continues-rapid-expansion-cloud-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Networks continues expansion of cloud footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Extreme Networks, Inc. announced rapid expansion of its 4th generation cloud footprint and the successful extension of its ExtremeCloud\u2122 IQ unified management platform and new, simplified Pilot subscription model across its family of edge switches and access points. Further demonstrating the value of cloudifying its portfolio, the company also introduced new Portable Branch Kits (PBK) and Rapid Outdoor Connectivity Kits (ROCK), enabling enterprises across industries to use ExtremeCloud IQ to quickly and securely provision, deliver, and manage connectivity in lockstep with organizational requirements to offer secure, reliable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremenetworks.com\/remote\/?utm_campaign=Q4_20_Cloud-Momentum&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=PR-Cloud-Momentum&amp;utm_content=Remote\">network access<\/a> anywhere \u2013 a capability never more relevant than during this pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ExtremeCloud\nIQ is the networking-focused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremenetworks.com\/extreme-networks-blog\/cloud-speed-innovation-march-2020\/?utm_campaign=Q4_20_Cloud-Momentu&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=PR-Cloud-Momentum&amp;utm_content=CloudSpeedBlog\">cloud\nmanagement<\/a> architecture to be both cloud-hosting agnostic and cloud\noperating system agnostic. It is a machine learning and AI-driven cloud\nmanagement platform that simplifies onboarding, configuration, monitoring,\nmanaging, troubleshooting, alerting, and reporting for network infrastructure\ndevices and is unequaled in its ability to provide administrators a 360-degree\nview of device, client, application, and network health and performance.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ExtremeCloud\nIQ adoption has grown by 40% in the trailing 12 months. Today, it manages over\n1 million devices, with an average of 25,000+ administrator logins per day and\ningests over 4 billion management messages daily that feed its machine learning\nand artificial intelligence engine. ExtremeCloud IQ has a global footprint of 15\nregional data centers hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/\">Google<\/a>, and soon <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\">Microsoft<\/a>,\nenabling the infrastructure devices under management, and the clients connected\nto them, to process more than 4 petabytes of data per day.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremenetworks.com\/products\/extremewireless\/?utm_campaign=Q4_20_Cloud-Momentu&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=PR-Cloud-Momentum&amp;utm_content=Wireless\">ExtremeWireless<\/a>\u2122\naccess points and controllers, including new generation Wi-Fi 6 access points\nand the ExtremeCloud Appliance.\nMore of the portfolio will be integrated into ExtremeCloud IQ in the coming\nmonths to provide IT with extended platform options and ML and AI capabilities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Extreme\nwill complete migrating its microservices-based 3rd generation cloud\narchitecture to a 4th generation, fully containerized, microservices-based\narchitecture by the end of April. The updated cloud architecture and cloud\nexecution model adds extensive instrumentation and automation capabilities,\nstrengthens its proven cloud-hosting agnostic capability, and now makes the\nExtremeCloud IQ cloud operating system agnostic as well. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ExtremeCloud IQ is available in multiple service tiers. ExtremeCloud IQ Connect provides basic device management and is free with the purchase of any supported hardware platform. ExtremeCloud IQ Pilot builds on Connect\u2019s features, offering advanced infrastructure management, reporting, and remediation tools, including ML and AI-driven insights and analytics. The new Pilot subscription is portable across the entire Extreme portfolio of products for the same $150 USD list price, delivering unmatched simplicity and license portability. Additionally, the new Pilot subscription comes with 90 days of data perspective for every customer who purchases the ExtremeCloud IQ Pilot-level subscription starting in May 2020.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ExtremeCloud\nIQ also makes it possible to quickly provision, deliver, and manage connectivity\nacross distributed locations from anywhere in the world. This enabled the\nintroduction of new, curated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremenetworks.com\/resources\/at-a-glance\/portable-branch-kit\/?utm_campaign=Q4_20_Cloud-Momentum&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=PR-Cloud-Momentum&amp;utm_content=PBK\">Portable\nBranch Kits (PBK)<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremenetworks.com\/resources\/at-a-glance\/extreme-networks-rapid-outdoor-connectivity-kits\/?utm_campaign=Q4_20_Cloud-Momentu&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=PR-Cloud-Momentum&amp;utm_content=ROCK\">Rapid\nOutdoor Connectivity Kit (ROCK)<\/a>, which helps hospitals and other\norganizations extend secure wireless connectivity to pop-up sites in support of\nquarantine, testing, and patient care efforts associated with COVID-19. These\ncloud-managed Wi-Fi 6 solutions deliver secure, encrypted access to the\nexisting infrastructure while maintaining HIPAA compliance. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Executive\nPerspectives<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Abby\nStrong, Vice President of Product Marketing, Extreme Networks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCustomer\nand partner response to our ExtremeCloud IQ solution has been extremely\npositive out of the gate \u2013 with more end users signing up daily. We are very\npleased with the progress we have made in making the platform accessible across\nour edge portfolio in such a short timeframe and look forward to integrating\nour campus solution next. We are also excited to offer our cloud-driven Portable\nBranch Kit and Rapid Outdoor Connectivity Kit to aid organizations in their\nbusiness continuity efforts. It is our goal to make cloud-driven networking a\nreality for IT everywhere, and we are well on our way to doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme Networks, Inc. announced rapid expansion of its 4th generation cloud footprint and the successful extension of its ExtremeCloud\u2122 IQ unified management platform and new, simplified Pilot subscription model across its family of edge switches and access points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,154,957],"tags":[631,1184,365,375,927,627,721],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-cloud-computing","category-women-in-tech","tag-artificial_intelligence","tag-cloud_footprint","tag-connectivity","tag-extremenetworks","tag-machine_learning","tag-next_generation","tag-secure_cloud_management"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/A_Strong-8011-e1545309391646-400x400-1.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Rabab","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}