Today’s data centers stand at the epicenter of powerful technological and economic trends. Cloud computing, together with processing, storage, security and software technologies that make it possible, are already straining the capabilities of legacy data center networks. The resource sharing in cloud computing allows significant cost reduction while enhances agility. It also enables the pay-as-you-go model. Yet, the data center intra-network interconnects all servers, storage, appliances, and routers in the data center. Achieving these results requires fundamental changes to the network itself. Read more...

It's perhaps a bit of a cliché, but people can be a company's greatest asset. With that in mind I've been spending a large chunk of my time towards the end of the year on HR activity - ensuring alignment of skills with aspirations and strategic requirements, reviewing top talent, thinking about long-term succession planning. It all ties into excellence in execution, one of Juniper's five key objectives. Get the people right and other key objectives such as customer focus also fall easier into place. Read more...

I regularly talk with colleagues, customers and partners about the continued onslaught of security and privacy matters facing today's enterprises and service providers. Often times our conversations point to the fact that data centers are evolving quickly as enterprises and service providers move to consolidate their infrastructures, and adopt new technologies to scale effectively and gain flexibility. A quick glance at Gartner's Annual Data Center Conference agenda from a few weeks ago shows many of the topics, trends and issues facing today's data center architects. Additionally, my colleague, David Yen, provided a good assessment on the future of data centers and the challenges facing enterprises and service providers. Read more...

Over the past few weeks I have visited two areas of the EMEA region that represent extremes in many respects – the United Arab Emirates and Russia. For me the most obvious contrast was the temperature difference – just about freezing and the first snow of the winter in Moscow, 30º Celsius in Dubai! Read more...

In the past few months, I've been talking among my Juniper colleagues, customers and partners about what's taking place in the service provider industry. We often reflect on the belief that this industry is in the midst of a dramatic period of change. Many service providers are not only adding new services to their portfolio and new regional or national footprints to their customer bases, but are transforming their business models to thrive and grow profitably in a challenging market environment. Read more...

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By now, I hope you’ve seen the multitude of news unveiled today as part of the next step in Juniper Networks’ journey and the New Network that will enhance all of our lives. Read more...

Greetings from New York City, where tomorrow will be a big day for Juniper Networks. Read more...

Over the past year, I've been engaged in various discussions with many of my colleagues and friends around the "future of the data center." What does this mean? What technologies, ideas, processes and global architectures will define the ‘futuristic' data center? These questions come up often and answers can vary depending on who you ask and when. Read more...

Information Security Magazine recently released the results of their 2009 Annual Readers Choice Awards, and we’re quite proud to have netted two gold awards and a silver. Read more...

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. Read more...

Yesterday, Juniper postponed a scheduled Blackhat USA 2009 presentation by one of our employees, Barnaby Jack, entitled "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines." This decision has grabbed the attention of the press, the Twittersphere and Blogosphere, and understandably so. Read more...

On Wednesday, Juniper Networks and NYSE Euronext made a significant announcement on our plans to work together to design a state-of-the-art, ultra-low latency core network for NYSE Euronext's new consolidated global data centers. These new data centers will be the primary operational infrastructure supporting several billions daily transactions across diverse asset classes and geographies, and will be instrumental in NYSE Euronext's efforts to consolidate the total number of global data centers from ten to four. Read more...

The question in vogue these days is whether your company "lives green" or just "wants green". Do companies idealistically support green practices because they are better for the planet and our grandchildren? Or do we just want to make more money (which is "green" colored in the USA). I think it's a false alternative and more of us are acting on the basis of both sustainability and profit motives as they re-enforce each other. This is one case where we can have our cake and eat it too. The more the better. Read more...

I was recently honored to join technical women in discussing our careers and personal achievements as part of a panel at the "Invent Your Future Conference", here in Silicon Valley - several days of professional development to help women take their careers and businesses to the next level. Read more...

Who would have thought that the old "branch network" environment that was dominated by a single vendor would change so much so quickly? The new world of mobile workers seems to pile new requirements onto old branch networks with rich media driving high-performance needs, explosions of single-purpose appliances driving complexity, out-of-control OS versions driving high costs, and excess network layers causing needless expense. Old products are driving the same old cost structures that seem so "2008" (ie outdated) these days. Read more...

In my role, I have the pleasure of speaking with people in all different lines of business directly or indirectly related to what we do here at Juniper-everyone from our service provider customers to press and financial analysts who have their own unique stake in our business. It's the latter two groups that have been asking questions about whether service providers can or will "run their networks hotter" to preserve capital expenses in these trying economic times. I'm not sure who coined the term, but it seems to be gaining traction as our esteemed competitor referenced it on their last quarterly earnings conference call. Read more...

With the economic downturn, today’s enterprises are focused on cutting opex immediately, but are even more challenged with reducing vulnerability to threats while retaining choice and flexibility for the future. Read more...

On February 24, 2009, Juniper Networks disclosed the existence of a program that will deliver the next generation data center fabric. Code named, Stratus (after the low-altitude, flat, single-layer cloud formation), this program represents an initiative being run by a new group called the Data Center Business Group (DCBG). Read more...

Just two months into 2009, and there is no question business and IT priorities are focused on ways to reduce costs, accelerate service delivery and maximize revenue. As I talk to customers, colleagues and other business leaders, it's clear that operational efficiency will be the watchword for some time to come. However other concepts including agility, responsiveness and customer service will remain important themes for business executives as we all navigate the choppy waters head. Read more...