Juniper expected to reveal cloud computing plans

| May 14, 2010 | Comments (1)

Juniper is preparing to announce how it plans to participate in cloud computing, according to a bulletin issued this week by an investment firm.

The firm, Avian Securities, expects Juniper to disclose details on integration of its new Trio chipset, Junos operating system, Junos partners and a “multi-chassis switch platform” into the cloud plan. Virtualization hooks in Trios and Junos may be key themes, the bulletin indicates.

“One thing they aren’t announcing is revolutionizing the Internet,” states author and analyst Catharine Trebnick in an apparent reference to Cisco’s recent hyped-up CRS-3 router announcement.

“We believe the announcement is the precursor to Juniper’s high profile Stratus project,” Trebnick states in her bulletin. Stratus is Juniper’s multiyear cloud computing project to construct a flat, converged fabric for consolidating and virtualizing server, storage and networking resources in multiple interconnected data centers. IBM is a strategic partner in this effort.

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About Onuora Amobi: Onuora Amobi is the founder and CEO of Nnigma, a leading online marketing firm headquartered in Pasadena, California. A Microsoft MVP with close to two decades of IT experience, he is also the co-author of the Windows 7 Deployment Guide for small businesses and IT Professionals(http://www.windows7deploymentguide.com). View author profile.