"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."
Jim Comfort
IBM Vice President, Enterprise Initiatives
IBM and Juniper Networks work together to help organizations around the world leverage networking and security technology to fulfill their most complex needs.
Juniper Networks and IBM have a long standing relationship as technology and development partners, and today our relationship touches all parts of the Juniper Networks portfolio as well as all divisions at IBM. Most recently, Juniper’s groundbreaking QFabric innovation is helping our joint data center customers transform their IT infrastructure to perform better today and to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
Juniper's complete portfolio of switches and routers is available through IBM Global Technology Services
(GTS). IBM Systems & Technology Group (STG) resells Juniper switches (IBM J48E
, EX2200
and EX4500
)and embeds them as part of integrated solutions (IBM iDataplex Intelligent Cluster
, IBM Smart Analytics
, and IBM zBX – zEnterprise BladeCenter® Extension).
IBM Smarter Planet
Juniper is actively engaged with several IBM Smarter Planet industry frameworks, providing networking and security products that are part of the IBM industry solutions. We continue to work together on increasing our joint portfolio and delivering improved solutions for customers.
Financing
Juniper Financing Advantage, provided by IBM Global Financing, provides customers with comprehensive financing capabilities at competitive rates. This allows customers to easily finance the hardware, software, and services needed for their IT solutions through a single contract.
To learn more, please visit the Juniper Financing Advantage page.
IBM-Juniper Strategic Alliance Executive Blog
For regular updates and news about the IBM-Juniper strategic alliance, subscribe to Juniper Vice President Liz King’s alliance blog.
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Today’s connected world demands a new level of performance from the data centers. Server and software performance have increased to meet this new level of demand. It is time for a new network that does the same.
Juniper Networks created QFabric to address the challenges of scalability, performance, and reliability, required for new generations of data centers. QFabric delivers a single data center network fabric that consolidates traditional 3-tiered architecture networks to enable faster access to data and more consistent performance. Qfabric can be managed as a single switch, helping to ease the challenges of managing a modern data center and simplify fully converged and virtualized data center environments.
IBM and Juniper Networks can help customers transform their current data centers or plan new facilities that will help them take advantage of the QFabric architecture.
To learn more, please visit Introducing QFabric.
To learn more about the QFX3500 and how it can help financial markets companies trade faster, please download this solution brief 
.
For more information on scalable network fabrics for data centers, please download this whitepaper .
Cloud computing is transforming the way organizations architect their IT solutions. IBM is one of the premier companies in the world for cloud computing. Whether it is helping clients transition their current applications, or hosting clients in their world-class data centers, IBM is a recognized leader in cloud computing. Juniper Networks is a key partner helping IBM deploy private and public clouds to customers around the world. Juniper networking and security solutions are deployed in IBM Cloud Data Centers around the world.
In a cloud application environment, the network can become critical to application performance. Juniper’s complete line of products enables customers to simplify, secure, and automate their data centers.
IBM Cloud Service Provider Platform (CSP2)
For organizations and service providers that want to offer public cloud computing infrastructure, the IBM’s Cloud Service Provider Platform (CSP2) provides a complete hardware, software, and networking solution. Juniper Networks provides networking for the CSP2 solution. AT&T
called the CSP2 solution "one of the best platforms for cloud computing" and selected it for the new release of their Synaptic Compute as a Service cloud platform.
To learn more, please visit IBM CSP2
, IBM Cloud Labs
, and Juniper Cloud-ready Data Center.
IBM can help organizations of all sizes address their networking requirements. From consolidated data center environments to distributed office or branch environments, IBM can help customers select, deploy, and manage the full portfolio of Juniper Networks switching and routing products.
Today’s organizations demand a high-performance network infrastructure that provides fast, secure and reliable delivery of the applications that drive business processes. Switches deployed in regional offices, campuses and data centers enable these business processes by connecting users to applications, delivering everything from traditional file services to telephony, messaging, presence, video conferencing and Web services.
Juniper Networks offers such a solution—a new class of Ethernet switches, designed specifically to meet the demands of today’s high-performance organizations. The Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches are changing the game, delivering the next generation of switching technology for today’s —and tomorrow’s—networks.
With the EX Series, organizations of all sizes can deploy a cost-effective family of switches that delivers the high availability (HA), unified communications, integrated security and operational excellence they need today, while providing a platform for supporting the requirements of tomorrow.
For the most demanding enterprise environments, Juniper’s MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers can provide maximum scale and intelligent service delivery capabilities. MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers are optimized for Ethernet services and address a wide range of deployments, architectures, port densities, and interfaces, for both service provider and enterprise environments.
A modern IT infrastructure relies on security to protect vital information and authorize secure employee or customer access to the right applications and data. IBM and Juniper Networks are working together as recognized leaders in information security to meet these demands. IBM leverages Juniper’s complete security portfolio to provide their customers with the best-of-breed solutions.
In addition to the SRX Security Gateways that protect data center and office IT environments, IBM offers customers protection for their mobile devices through Juniper’s Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite (JPMSS).
The SRX Series Service Gateways are based on Junos, Juniper's proven operating system which delivers security and advanced protection services that are the foundation of the world's largest networks. IBM offers customers professional services to configure, deploy, and manage the full range of security gateways from Juniper. From massive data centers with high traffic throughput, to organizations with remote offices, IBM leverages Juniper products to provide industry leading protection and the services customers need.
Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite is a comprehensive solution that includes security, management, and control for the most popular smartphones. IBM can sell the entire suite, providing security professionals the services they need to address any migration or implementation needs for customers, and has announced plans to create a managed security service
based on JPMSS.
Managed Maintenance Services (MMS) provides 7x24x365 remote and onsite support, is available globally, and is delivered by IBM’s highly skilled Juniper-certified personnel. IBM support centers in North America, EMEA and APAC are equipped with Juniper labs staff prepared for problem recreation and troubleshooting. Co-Delivered, with IBM performing level 1 and level 2 troubleshooting and Juniper providing level 3 support, IBM's MMS mirrors the Juniper J-Care service level options with IBM value-add including:
- Multi-vendor support — clients receive consolidated, single point of call and accountability for maintenance in the networking environment
- Unique ability to support multinational companies
- Entitlement and Inventory Management
- IBM on site services
- Procurement and staging services
- Options for multi-year agreements, discounting, and IBM Financing
- Additional services, including managed security services and IBM Delivery Project Management
- Identify all items covered under warranty, length of warranty and any extended coverage periods
In addition, IBM offers a full range of capabilities for Juniper including network assessment, analysis, design, and implementation and monitoring.
To learn more, please visit the Juniper Networks Support Center.
