as part of the reseller agreement, Lenovo and its partner network will cover customers in more than 60 countries by reselling a converged infrastructure solution for computing, networking and storage Open Fabric featuring the Extreme Networks Ethernet switches that only treat the challenges of cloud computing with the scale, reliability and support of the OpenStack ™ cloud initiative. The global strategic alliance reseller deal converged infrastructure for data centers and the cloud.
IBM Servers
The reseller agreement follows after in April this year, where talks Lenovo in talks with IBM to acquire part of his division server. These negotiations broke down after the two parties could not agree on a price. While Lenovo already offers some types of servers within its portfolio, journalist accommodation has not yet seen all the Lenovo servers within the data centers hosting providers or roommate. An acquisition of IBM server business would certainly contribute to improving the Lenovo server proposal in the web hosting market, similar to the jump made by Lenovo acquisition of IBM PC business.
The products of Extreme Networks will complement the current offer of Lenovo server . Extreme Networks products are managed with a single modular operating system, ExtremeXOS, promote network automation, customization through open API, and support for open networking standards. Open Fabric data center and edge of campus network company's solutions offer 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet, software-defined networking (SDN) and OpenStack tools to facilitate migration to the cloud.
"Addressing customer needs for the center of the cloud and data today based on the integration of the network stack with proven solutions for computing, storage and networking" says Darrel Ward, vice president of marketing, Lenovo Enterprise Products Group . "With Extreme Networks, we have found an excellent partner that will allow Lenovo to offer a complete, open standards-based which will play a central role in enabling our customers to achieve their goal of establishing profitable and scalable architectures."
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