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Dell, Juniper Networks join forces
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009, 16:57 IST
Kuala Lumpur: PC-maker Dell and Juniper Networks will soon offer networking solutions under Dell's PowerConnect brand that enables a customer to deploy a common network management platform and network operating system to help reduce operating expenses.
In addition, both companies plan to work together on open, standards-based solutions for virtualized datacenters and deliver technology solutions using Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), also known as Datacenter Bridging (DCB) and iSCSI to improve network economics.
As the notion of traditional, physical datacenter boundaries extend to virtual environments, customers must adapt to a variety of technological challenges including virtualization, security, bandwidth utilization and network management. Dell and Juniper intend to deliver a secure network infrastructure - from a customer's traditional datacenter to its branch offices, remote workers, customers and business partners.
The infrastructure can dynamically adjust to meet these challenges and provide orchestrated management of users, workloads and data while avoiding single-vendor lock-in, the companies announced. Dell also plans to market, service and support Juniper's networking solutions to its large enterprise, small and medium business customers and public organizations.
The products, Dell will deliver under its PowerConnect brand include the Juniper Networks MX Series services routers, EX Series Ethernet switches and SRX Series services gateways; all running Junos software. Dell expects to make these products available to customers via its direct and PartnerDirect channels. "Networking is an important piece in providing customers with choices for how they optimize their datacenter operations to improve efficiency," said Brad Anderson, Senior Vice President of the enterprise product group at Dell. "This agreement will help address many of our customer's biggest challenges including a dramatic rise in security concerns, an increasingly dispersed workforce and challenges brought on with the advent of the virtualized datacenter."
Gerri Elliott, Executive Vice President of strategic alliances at Juniper Networks, said that the agreement is another step in its sustained and successful push into the enterprise market. "We have the only infrastructure that includes integrated security, routing and switching running on a single operating system. And that uniform approach is a great benefit to IT organizations, from the smallest to the largest, as they tackle the challenges of an increasingly decentralized landscape," Elliott said.
