Traditionally, the end of the year is a time of reflection and celebration. Today we’ll do both. Here are four good reasons why Extreme enthusiasts should be even more excited about the future!
Reason #1: The freedom of cloud architecture
When it comes to cloud-based networking solutions, we’re the second largest and fastest-growing company in the world. In fact, many industry professionals keep saying that Extreme is many years ahead of the competition. And not without good reason.
Let’s start with the simple fact that Extreme Networks is the only vendor with a cloud-agnostic architecture that offers customers the same functionality, irrespective of their choice of cloud provider or cloud location. You can manage your enterprise network environment from ExtremeCloud IQ hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services (AWS), deployed either in the public, private cloud, or on-premises cloud. What’s more, you can expand our award-winning platform to support all devices in the cloud or on-premises!
Of course, it all wouldn’t make much difference if you wasn’t 100% confident in the safety of your data. To ensure the highest levels of information systems and data protection, management, and compliance, ExtremeCloud IQ cloud platform conforms to ISO / IEC 27017 and is certified by DQS to ISO / IEC 27001 and ISO / IEC 27701 by the International Standards Organization (ISO).
Reason #2: Data driven decision-making
But that’s not all. While every other enterprise vendor claims that telemetry data is the source of their AI/ML capabilities, they limit their data to… just a few weeks. ExtremeCloud IQ, on the other hand, offers the industry’s first unlimited data plan, which means you have the access to the entire historical data sets throughout your service agreement. How do you benefit from that?
Basically, the more telemetry data companies can harness, the better informed their decision-making could be, and the greater their opportunity to optimize operations and enhance customer experiences. Wouldn’t it be great to compare the footfall analytics in a retail store trending over the last years? How about the comparison of the network performance between software or hardware upgrades? Would you like to compare the traffic lines across bank tellers over time? What about comparing network analytics between device upgrades across multiple months/years?
Data driven decision-making is the only reliable form of decision-making. And speaking of AI/ML…
Reason #3: Explainable AI/ML
These days, everyone talks about AI/ML. So what helps Extreme stand out from the crowd? We don’t only help organizations harness and process data faster, smarter, and more efficiently. We also make these AI decisions understandable and explainable to the human.
Our CoPilot solution offers you to get a birds-eye view of the overall network, the license consumption, the anomalies associated to users, the network, and devices. Given the complexities of IT networks and the scope of the anomalies observed, CoPilot further subdivides observations into two areas: network-wide issues and localized network issues.
The focus is on critical yet often-seen problems with DHCP, DNS, and RADIUS which might disrupt wireless communications. Ethernet cable, PoE, and multicast data anomalies may also impact the user experience. Some of the issues introduced are related to the connectivity medium, such as Wi-Fi Capacity and Wi-Fi Efficiency. Other issues might be related to connectivity between various devices.
Simple explanations provided by CoPilot give you guidance to identify the root cause of the anomaly, verify the anomaly with the network data, and resolve the issue.
Reason #4: Hardware flexibility
Obviously, software can be agile. But can the hardware be, too? As a matter of fact, yes!
Extreme’s Universal Platforms combine the power of cloud management with next-generation switches and access points that can support multiple deployment use cases. We think it's what's on the inside that counts, therefore all it takes to move to a different use case is a simple change of the software or feature set!
In other words, with the help of Universal Platforms customers may decide to manage their devices on-premises today and transition to the cloud tomorrow. Our architecture decouples the software from the underlying hardware and enables us to offer a single Universal hardware platform coupled with a single license for deployment in any mode.
A leader squared
So that’s kind of a momentum that can’t go unnoticed. At Extreme Networks, we are very proud of being positioned as a Leader for the fourth year in a row in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure.
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All that being said, we definitely haven’t said our last word yet, as we continue to contend in the arena of the Infinite Enterprise. Reach out to your friendly partner or Extreme seller to learn more. To get a copy of the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant report, click here!