Cisco rival Juniper push into virtual data center

The announcement this week, Juniper Networks routers and switches designed to balance and simplify existing networks is the latest indication that the company was not the intention, on the face of growing competition from Cisco Data Center, HP and other backtrack.

Deploying Juniper targets Cisco Nexus products and other network data centers, while the ground for the project Stratus Juniper, a network of focal data presented in the spring of 2009, but after eight of 12 months after delivery.

Juniper tries to optimize its product range with the increasing use of computing and virtualization technologies in the intensive networking sites.

The challenge for virtualization Cisco Juniper was attacked on the side of the networks in recent years, while the Titans servers such as HP and IBM - a partner in the Juniper Stratus - You have to resolve this problem, also calculate longer.Meanwhile page said Brocade that strengthening the fabric of data centers with partners for years and that Juniper is still vague, as is already existing storage networks.

Juniper Sun should at the earliest possible stage in the bold statements delivered this week, last fall at the customer site and NYSE over a year ago at the launch of Stratus.