by Brad on 17 January 2012
In a recent post at EtherealMind.com, Greg Ferro examined possible implications associated with the impending dominance of merchant silicon in the networking industry. Early in his post, Ferro reproduces a Broadcom graphic illustrating that the major s…
by Brad on 31 October 2011
The networking industry’s version of Groundhog Day resurfaced late last week when the Wall Street Journal published an article in which “people familiar with the matter” indicated that Brocade Communications Systems was up for sale — again….
The concept of software-defined networking (SDN) has generated considerable interest during the last several months. Although SDNs can be realized in more than one way, the OpenFlow protocol seems to have drawn a critical mass of prospective customer…
Now seems a good time to review Dell’s announcement last week regarding its acquisition of Force10 Networks. We knew a deal was coming, and now that the move finally has been made, we can can consider the implications. It was … Continue reading…
There’s a strong possibility that Dell will make a networking acquisition in the near future. In the spirit of fun, I thought it would be mildly entertaining, and perhaps edifying — though I don’t want to push it — to … Continue r…
IBM today unwrapped a variety of mobile security initiatives to help corporate customers better protect and manage the mass of intelligent devices coming to their networks.
Juniper has major announcement, likely Project Stratus components, set for Feb. 23 in SFJuniper has a major data center announcement slated for Feb. 23 in San Francisco. We believe it’s the long awaited product roll out from the two-year-old Stratus Pr…
KJ: Certainly that's what we've seen as market share has shifted, and as Juniper introduced the first core router, we rapidly took market share in core …See all stories on this topic »
Juniper took one-third of Cisco's share in core routing shortly after coming … Router 7750 optimized for traffic management and processing of IPTV, WebTV, …
by GigaOm on 27 September 2010
The deal is also a bit of bad news for Juniper, the networking and switch maker that had a deepening partnership with IBM in the wake of Cisco launching its …See all stories on this topic »
by Brad on 3 September 2010
As the latest VMworld begins its transformation from current event to memory, now probably is as good a time as any to reflect on what it all means, if anything, for the future of data centers, the IT industry, and … Continue reading →
I was also Chief Operating Officer for Juniper Networks. … you deal with one I/O card in the server, one cable connecting back to the switch. …
The Ethernet Switch J48E, which is a rebadged 48-port Gigabit Ethernet switch with optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks that is made by Juniper Networks, …
As an old business-development hand, I am curious as to how Juniper’s increasingly significant OEM relationships with IBM and Dell might factor into strategic considerations. In my experience, OEM relationships are balancing acts that never remain at rest. A permanent … Continue reading →