IBM and Juniper Networks are building Cloud Labs around the world to demonstrate solutions that seamlessly move client computing workloads between private and publicly managed cloud environments. These solutions allow our customers to reliably deliver on service level agreements.

To address the required scale, speed, and reliability required by modern mega data centers, IBM and Juniper have embarked on the Stratus Project, an initiative to create a single data center fabric that can support fully converged and virtualized data center environments.

The companies are also jointly researching cloud computing security models to mitigate attacks on corporate data and computer systems.

To learn more, please visit Service Provider — Cloud Data Center Network and Enterprise — Cloud-Ready Data Center.

The world is rapidly becoming more intelligent, more instrumented, and more interconnected. It's becoming smarter. To accommodate this fundamental change, your infrastructure must become more dynamic.

Juniper connects and enables the IBM dynamic infrastructure for our customers to dramatically improve productivity through virtualization, energy efficiency, and flexible sourcing. We'll also show you how to prepare your infrastructure to address your business needs and to take advantage of emerging capabilities and delivery models such as cloud computing.

Click the areas below to learn more about joint dynamic infrastructure solutions.

Data Center Networks:

• Meet enterprise expectations for investment in new data center technologies.
• Use a single network operating system to simplify the data center network and lower TCO.
• Lower the total energy footprint with efficient network designs.
• Leverage collapsed tiers to reduce both the number of devices and CapEx.
• Increase performance and security and facilitate server virtualization with Juniper SRX Services Gateways.
• Offer 5x the capacity of closest competitor with SRX Services Gateways.
• Engineer high availability as a system.

To learn more, please visit the Enterprise — Cloud-Ready Data Center page.

Implementing IBM PowerVM Virtual Machines on Juniper Networks Data Center Networks [PDF 3.76 MB]

Campus and Branch Networking:

• Delivers campus and building networks designed to keep pace with business requirements
• Limits the day-to-day operational impact of network upgrades and rollouts
• Scales from one location to thousands of locations
  • Campus
    • Integrated security.
    • Power over Ethernet on every port for flexibility of deployment and redeployment.
    • Virtual Chassis technology reduces devices to buy and manage.
    • One operating system (OS) for simplified testing, training, and management

To learn more, please visit the Enterprise — Campus page.

• Branch
  • One box convenience including security.
  • Zero-touch deployment and management.
  • Predictable performance under load.
  • Advanced features: WAN acceleration, VoIP modules, VPN support rich applications.
  • One OS for simplified testing, training and management.

To learn more, please visit the Enterprise — Branch page

Network Security:

• Helps prioritize security initiatives and determine how to invest for optimal return.
• Simplifies and speeds the planning and execution of an enterprise-wide security program.
• Reduces the number of service-specific and performance-limited security appliances, adding to flexibility without sacrificing performance and security levels.
• Helps reach a desired security posture that meets business and regulatory requirements.
• Delivers ease of management and technical support.

To learn more, please visit the Service Provider — Network Security page

Next-Generation Networks:

• Deliver a design that optimizes investment and addresses continually evolving subscriber and business needs.
• Efficiently enable a launch of multiplay IPTV broadcast services and advancement to more complex on-demand and interactive offerings to increase average revenue per user.
• Provide a rich set of features that support the rapid deployment and reliable delivery of applications.
• Include advanced subscriber management, dynamic bandwidth allocation, quality of service, security, lawful intercept, and policy-based control.

To learn more, please visit the Service Provider — Network Infrastructure page.

Advanced Mobility Solution:

• Enable remote user productivity with Juniper Networks SSL-VPN and WAN Acceleration.
• Ease administration and deployment for most common remote user requirements.
• Reduce support costs with self-installing client.
• Increase ability to support new software deployment models like Software as a Service (SaaS) and Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI).
• Implement flexible and customizable portals for Customers, Partners and Employees.
• Integrate with Juniper Networks Unified Access Control for increased oversight and control of critical network resources.

Application Acceleration:

• Accelerates client-server and Web-based applications as well as voice, video, and terminal services, such as Citrix.
• Can dramatically improve the performance and response times of IT systems and processes.
• Simplifies project coordination across many remote sites.
• Offers a more LAN-like experience for remote and branch office users.
• Reduces time for file transfers from remote locations.
• Helps to control wide area network costs

To learn more, please visit the Application Acceleration page.

IBM Network Integration Services for wide area networks - application and network performance optimization [PDF 483 KB]

Network Management:

• IBM Tivoli software and Juniper Networks software work together to extend the functionality of Juniper Networks products to deliver robust and flexible systems management solutions.
• IBM Tivoli Netcool includes integrated modules for the Juniper Networks JUNOS operating system as well as intrusion detection and security manager solutions
• Enables rapid service deployment.
• Delivers operational efficiencies that lower the cost of operations.
• Offers more comprehensive event collection, correlation, and consolidation through automated problem diagnosis, notification, and resolution.

To learn more, please visit the Enterprise — Cloud-Ready Data Center page

IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) is the largest and most experienced enterprise network services provider in the world. As an official Juniper Networks Authorized Support Center (JNASC), GTS globally offers a full portfolio of lifecycle services including:

• Network assessment and analysis.
• Network design.
• Procurement and staging.
• Network implementation.
• Network monitoring.
• Remote support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• On-site service available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Managed security services.
• Firewall, VPN, intrusion detection.
• Localized language support.
• Multi-vendor support allowing for single customer engagement.

To learn more, please visit the Juniper Networks Support Center

Juniper Financing Advantage, provided by IBM Global Financing, provides you with comprehensive financing capabilities at competitive rates. This allows you to affordably acquire the hardware, software, and services you need for your networking solutions through a single contract.

To learn more, please visit the Financing Advantage page.

Juniper and IBM are continuing to broaden their strategic relationship by entering into an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) agreement that will enable IBM to provide Juniper's Ethernet networking products and support within IBM's data center portfolio of products.

The addition of Juniper's products to IBM's data center networking portfolio provides customers with a best-in-class networking solution and accelerates both companies’ shared vision of advancing the economics of networking and the data center by reducing costs, improving services and managing risk.

"With Juniper's Ethernet technologies added to our data center portfolio, IBM is able to offer customers more choice and flexibility in their networking solutions to address the growing demands being placed on their IT environments," said Jim Comfort, IBM VP of Enterprise Initiatives. "This new OEM agreement with Juniper will help support IBM's data center networking initiatives through unparalleled network scalability, carrier-class reliability and operational simplicity, accelerating the deployment of our customers' virtualized applications and services, and extending the value of their networks."

IBM and Juniper Relationship FAQ [   193 KB]

To learn more, please visit IBM's OEM product page.