Juniper intros datacenter solns

href="http://dqchannels.ciol.com/content/reselleralert/110021804.asp">Juniper
Networks unveiled new software,
services, systems and partnerships that will help enterprise IT
dramatically to reduce the cost and complexity of datacenter
networking, while also improving application and business
performance. The 'new network' for datacenters is fueled by critical
innovations in automation, virtualization and fabric technologies,
which can cut time to operation by up to 50 percent and eliminate up
to 35 percent of datacenter networking capital expenditures. The
company also announced new switches and the delivery of new routers
that yield up to a five-fold and eight-fold improvement in network
performance, respectively.

The announcements overcome the 'old
network' approach of adding more boxes to boost performance, which
adds cost and complexity to the datacenter. Alternatively, optimizing
for economics has typically required sacrificing speed, scalability
and other performance needs. Juniper has created a 'new network'
alternative for customers by delivering a cloud-ready datacenter
architecture that eliminates trade-offs between experience and
economics.

In addition to the software, systems
and partnerships above, Juniper also announced a new Juniper Care
Plus services portfolio for mission-critical support for enterprise
customers that is designed to mitigate risk by protecting high
performance network investments while increasing reliability and
operational effectiveness, and lowering operational expenses. Juniper
Care Plus will keep the network at optimum readiness through
designated high-touch support, proactive automation tools that help
automate and simplify the network, and personalized services such as
education, network consulting and account management. Juniper Care
Plus will be available through both Juniper and its partners,
including IBM that will deliver Juniper expertise, automation and
support via one call globally.

“It's time for a fundamental change
in the datacenter — one that opens up the network, makes it much
easier to manage, and delivers the right experiences without
sacrificing economics,” said Kevin Johnson, CEO of Juniper
Networks. “The traditional approach of more boxes and more layers
benefits legacy vendors, while burdening the customer with cost and
complexity. Our approach is different, and it's fueled by a
combination of Juniper and partner innovation at the systems,
software and services levels — all designed to help IT eliminate
those layers of cost and complexity, while also enhancing application
and business performance,” explained Johnson.

“Companies must look beyond
traditional multi-layered, complex and inflexible networks to support
virtualized and globally distributed datacenters today and cloud
computing tomorrow,” said Andreas M Antonopoulos, Senior VP and
Founding Partner, Nemertes Research. “The network must become much
more dynamic, flexible and automated without sacrificing
performance,” he added.

Juniper
Networks
has announced the availability of Ex2200 Ethernet switches