Tag: Juniper

Juniper’s answer to Cisco in the data center: Stratus Project

Cisco vs. Juniper

Juniper said Tuesday it is partnering with server, storage and software companies to develop a converged data center fabric under a multiyear project that will compete with Cisco’s largely solo effort.

Juniper’s Stratus Project is a year old and comprises six elements: a data center manager, storage, compute, Layer 4-7 switching, appliances and networking. It is intended to be a flat, non-blocking, lossless fabric supporting tens of thousands of Gigabit Ethernet ports, an order of magnitude reduction in latency, no single point of failure, and with security tightly integrated and virtualized.

Stratus is expected to support the Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) data center fabric specifications being defined and endorsed by several vendors.

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IBM and Juniper join in cloud strategy

IBM and Juniper provided a preview at technology that lets enterprise IT managers easily reallocate computing resources between a private and a public cloud.

Using cloud management software IBM Tivoli  and a Juniper network, the companies demonstrated a drag-and-drop interface for managing a hybrid cloud infrastructure. The console displayed virtual machines like small boxes with specific color, to show whether they were being used and what for. Identifying one application as less critical than another, he dragged several boxes from the private cloud to a public one. Then, with computing resources freed up on the private cloud, he allocated the empty boxes to the more critical function in order to meet the IT department’s service-level agreement for it.

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