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Juniper Networks slashes data center complexity, TCO

12 November, 2008


Juniper Networks Inc. has introduced its new Data Center Infrastructure Solutions designed to advance IT initiatives for data center consolidation, server virtualization and sustainable information technology. The Juniper Networks Data Center Infrastructure Solutions can significantly reduce network complexity and total cost of ownership by up to 52 percent in capital expenditures, up to 44 percent in power, up to 44 percent in cooling and up to 55 percent in rack space in the data center. With Juniper, customers can achieve greater operational simplicity, agility and efficiency for accelerating the deployment of new applications and services. Juniper's data center approach, which includes switching, routing and security technologies, all running on a single network operating system -- JUNOS software -- is supported by strategic partner IBM and customers including AdvancedMD Software Inc., AOL, Commerce Bank and Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at UCLA. "Juniper has a proven track record in enabling high-performance businesses to scale their networks without compromise," said Mike Banic, vice president of marketing, Ethernet Platforms Business Group at Juniper Networks. "We are now extending the expertise we have gained from mission-critical deployments worldwide into the data center. Our solutions empower businesses, offering them choice and the ability to drive down the cost and complexity of managing their data center networks, which enable them to realize the fullest return on investment in technologies such as server virtualization."

Juniper's Data Center Infrastructure Solutions will help enterprises, service providers and government agencies lower their total cost of ownership by allowing them to a build a network architecture that provides the operational simplicity, agility and efficiency that high-performance businesses need to keep pace with escalating demands and increasingly complex data center environments.

"IBM's New Enterprise Data Center is an evolutionary new model for efficient IT service delivery that guides customers through a progression of simplified, shared and dynamic infrastructure, with each stage delivering value that allows businesses to provision new services quickly and cost effectively without added complexity and risk," said IBM's Jim Comfort, vice president, Systems and Technology Group. "Juniper's approach to simplifying data center information infrastructure tightly aligns with our New Enterprise model, and helps customers progress to the shared and dynamic phases of the model. Together, Juniper and IBM can help our customers transform their mission-critical data centers to fuel operational innovation." Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.














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