Recently the US Department of Defense added Juniper Networks MX240-960, MX5-80, and the MX80-48T to the Unified Capabilities Approved Product List (UC APL) as MPLS capable, Assured Services Local Area Network (ASLAN) devices.

So why is this notable? And, so why does the Department of Defense need MPLS anyhow?

Server Virtualisation is one of the most rapidly evolving and extensively deployed technologies today. Many IT departments and organisations are benefiting from the cost savings of deploying a virtualised environment and IT administrators are benefiting from the simple deployment and management of these systems. Gartner has stated that “Virtualisation is becoming mainstream: 23% of installed applications are running in a VM now. 48% of installed applications will run on a VM by 2012.” ¹ So, what does this mean in security terms?  Well Gartner has also stated that “60 Percent of Virtualised Servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace through 2012” ²and a recent straw poll carried out by Juniper Networks, of 60 attendees at VMworld 2011, despite security concerns, 63% have already virtualized at least 75% of their data centres and 68% said they are 90% likely to be running mission-critical workloads in virtual machines within the next 12 months ³

Most data centers today are already incredibly complex, with numerous servers, applications, networking hardware, and appliances. On top of this, if you are supporting a virtualized server environment, how do you manage virtual machine (VM) migration in this complicated environment? What’s the best, easiest and most cost-effective way to do it? Read more...

Technical vocabulary keeps us on our toes and we find ourselves immersed in specialized words that didn't exist even a few years ago. We owe as much of this to advertising (supersize) as we do to subcultures (spyware) and to the morphing of existing words to fit the computerized norm-an example of the last is "virtualization." Read more...

By now you must have read about the Virtualized Core launch by Juniper Networks. The announcement last week focused quite a bit on virtualization-and with good reason-but one thing that often gets overlooked in the press is something that service providers cannot ignore when it comes to building a Next Generation Network-that is carrier grade availability. Read more...

Today’s launch talked about virtualization in the core. I am sure that would have raised quite a few questions in technically-oriented minds. How do you make one router look like many? How do you share resources? How do you provide management separation? Read more...

Our reliance on telecom is amazing – we stay connected in ways that we seldom even think about. I find myself—and see folks everywhere—texting, emailing, calling, listening, watching, all day long. I see other doing the same thing at bus stops, in coffee houses, in their cars…oh wait a minute, we shouldn’t talk about that one…. Read more...