Extreme Networks-Scale Computing joint marketing agreement
ConvergenceAsia staff
29/07/2009

Extreme Networks, the converged Ethernet networks provider, is broadening its reach in the data centre by working with Scale Computing, an emergent company specialising in enterprise-class scalable and clustered storage solutions using commodity-based hardware to drive down the costs of enterprise storage.

“Roughly 40 per cent of all storage spending is from SMBs and 30 per cent of all data stored by 2011 will be from health care,” said Peter Fuller, vice president of marketing and business development, Scale Computing.

The two companies will each draw from their product lines to help customers with the economic realities associated with increased reliance on data storage and decreased budgets.

“This partnership offers true value to key industries that need to store more data and spend less money in order to maintain their competitive edge and compliance with pending regulations. With Scale and Extreme, customers get feature-rich budget relief for their storage and networking needs,” Fuller said.

Extreme Networks will offer its BlackDiamond 8800 modular switching family, featuring 10 Gigabit network capacity, the Summit X650 and Summit X450 switches, supporting copper and fibre for cost-effective and scalable networks. Scale will offer its SN1000 and SN2000 storage nodes with TrueCluster architecture.

When purchased together, these products represent a complete data networking and IP storage solution that addresses back-up and replication of data by combining high performance Ethernet switching, from Fast Ethernet to 10 gigabits, with Scale’s TrueCluster architecture.

Extreme Networks is driving higher performance of Ethernet at lower costs with the added intelligence of the event-driven network, said Paul Hooper, vice president and general manager, Volume Products Group, Extreme Networks.

“Together, Extreme Networks and Scale Computing address the market’s evolving networking and storage needs with cost-effective and open solutions.”

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