Extreme Networks, Lenovo Enter Strategic Global Reseller Alliance

Extreme Networks, Inc.

today announced that it has entered into a strategic global reseller alliance with computing leader Lenovo

, the world's #1 PC maker and innovative provider of technology solutions to global businesses. Lenovo will provide its campus, data center and cloud customers with open, high performance, and reliable converged infrastructure addressing data center and cloud initiatives. Lenovo's focus on enterprise-grade manageability, open standards and business critical reliability is enhanced with networking solutions from Extreme Networks. As part of the reseller agreement, Lenovo and its network of channel partners will address customers in more than 60 countries by reselling a converged infrastructure solution for compute, networking and storage featuring Extreme Networks' Open Fabric Ethernet switches that uniquely address the challenges of cloud computing with scale, reliability and support of the OpenStack™ cloud initiative.