Extreme Networks continues expansion of cloud footprint
Extreme Networks, Inc. announced rapid expansion of its 4th generation cloud footprint and the successful extension of its ExtremeCloud™ 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, network access anywhere – a capability never more relevant than during this pandemic.
Key Facts:
- ExtremeCloud
IQ is the networking-focused cloud
management architecture to be both cloud-hosting agnostic and cloud
operating system agnostic. It is a machine learning and AI-driven cloud
management platform that simplifies onboarding, configuration, monitoring,
managing, troubleshooting, alerting, and reporting for network infrastructure
devices and is unequaled in its ability to provide administrators a 360-degree
view of device, client, application, and network health and performance.
- ExtremeCloud
IQ adoption has grown by 40% in the trailing 12 months. Today, it manages over
1 million devices, with an average of 25,000+ administrator logins per day and
ingests over 4 billion management messages daily that feed its machine learning
and artificial intelligence engine. ExtremeCloud IQ has a global footprint of 15
regional data centers hosted by Amazon, Google, and soon Microsoft,
enabling the infrastructure devices under management, and the clients connected
to them, to process more than 4 petabytes of data per day.
- ExtremeWireless™
access points and controllers, including new generation Wi-Fi 6 access points
and the ExtremeCloud Appliance.
More of the portfolio will be integrated into ExtremeCloud IQ in the coming
months to provide IT with extended platform options and ML and AI capabilities.
- Extreme
will complete migrating its microservices-based 3rd generation cloud
architecture to a 4th generation, fully containerized, microservices-based
architecture by the end of April. The updated cloud architecture and cloud
execution model adds extensive instrumentation and automation capabilities,
strengthens its proven cloud-hosting agnostic capability, and now makes the
ExtremeCloud IQ cloud operating system agnostic as well.
- 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’s 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.
- ExtremeCloud
IQ also makes it possible to quickly provision, deliver, and manage connectivity
across distributed locations from anywhere in the world. This enabled the
introduction of new, curated Portable
Branch Kits (PBK) and the Rapid
Outdoor Connectivity Kit (ROCK), which helps hospitals and other
organizations extend secure wireless connectivity to pop-up sites in support of
quarantine, testing, and patient care efforts associated with COVID-19. These
cloud-managed Wi-Fi 6 solutions deliver secure, encrypted access to the
existing infrastructure while maintaining HIPAA compliance.
Executive
Perspectives
Abby
Strong, Vice President of Product Marketing, Extreme Networks
“Customer
and partner response to our ExtremeCloud IQ solution has been extremely
positive out of the gate – with more end users signing up daily. We are very
pleased with the progress we have made in making the platform accessible across
our edge portfolio in such a short timeframe and look forward to integrating
our campus solution next. We are also excited to offer our cloud-driven Portable
Branch Kit and Rapid Outdoor Connectivity Kit to aid organizations in their
business continuity efforts. It is our goal to make cloud-driven networking a
reality for IT everywhere, and we are well on our way to doing so.”