Advancing the Economics of Networking – The Expansion of the Juniper/IBM Relationship

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Earlier today, Juniper made an announcement about a significant milestone in our relationship with IBM which will benefit customers who seek choice and best-in-class technology as they build and deploy data centers for their businesses. 

IBM will brand and resell Juniper products as part of their overall data center networking portfolio. This OEM relationship is part of our joint strategic and long-term plan to bring Juniper's High-Performance Networking solutions to IBM's enterprise customers.  We expect the first IBM branded Juniper products to ship in Q409.

As Juniper has previously discussed, the network plays an essential role in the transformation of data centers and the coming revolution of cloud computing.  This role will only increase over time. Without the network, there is no cloud. 

Therefore, a premium will be placed on networks that are driven by economies of scale while delivering rich user experiences.  And the only way businesses can keep up with consumer application demand, and the varying types of data traffic associated with it, is by deploying high-performance networks to be the backbone of that infrastructure.  Mind you, computing power simply isn't enough to meet these needs.  That network must also be reliable, secure, fast and scalable, while remaining simple to deploy and operate.

From a Juniper standpoint, this relationship is an endorsement of our corporate strategy of embracing partners to help deliver best-in-class solutions to customers. IBM and Juniper share a common vision of the data center of the future. Our two companies have been working together in varying capacities to achieve this vision, including the Stratus Project - our initiative to create a single data center fabric that will deliver a quantum leap in scale, performance and simplicity.  Additionally, we are researching cloud computing security models to mitigate attacks on corporate data and computer systems.

For the data center and the cloud, the IBM relationship is very important to Juniper, as it will drive the evolution of information infrastructures in the years to come.  For more information, please go to: www.juniper.net/ibm

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