Data centre strategy promises to migrate manufacturers to the cloud

Extreme Networks, which presented its data centre network vision at this week's Gartner's Data Centre Conference in Las Vegas, says it is providing a blueprint for data centre transition – migrating organisations from a physical to a virtual, location-independent cloud network. Company chairman and co-founder, Gordon Stitt states that the challenge in today's data centre consists of transitioning to a virtualised environment, while leveraging existing network investments. The migration of the data centre to a virtualised infrastructure means, he says, bringing visibility of virtual machines to the network level, and solving the departmental divide between switches and server staffs that has been introduced with virtualisation. "Extreme Networks has developed a network infrastructure solution that accommodates the evolving technology landscape in the data centre," says Stitt. "Our data centre 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."