Category Archives: Data Center

The green movement and the desire to control carbon emissions and reduce energy consumption have contributed to the demand for higher efficiency in the data center, but there is another powerful “green” incentive in play – money. A big component of TCO is power consumption and as one of the last places where one can [...]

This week at Interop we launched (link to PR) two products key to the next stage in the physical transformation of the data center – the Summit 670T, a new high-density copper version of our successful top-of-rack product line, and a 48 port 10G copper blade for our BlackDiamond X8, the first blade of its [...]

Data Center Networking continues to evolve to be more challenging and costly as virtualization technologies layer over physical devices.  Networking technologies like Convergence and Fabrics are quickly being realized as major cost savings for data center connectivity.  Having open, interoperable and standard-based technologies can enhance these cost savings by allowing choice of best-of-breed technologies.  Interoperability [...]

Recently we had some great news here at Extreme Networks. Every year Network Computing, a network publication out of the UK, does the Network Computing Product of the Year awards. This year, with the release of the BlackDiamond® X8, which delivered record setting results in the November 2011 Lippis Report, we were in a good [...]