Say Hello to Our Newest Branch Platforms for Secure SD-WAN / 

The announcement of Juniper's newest hardware additions for the AI-driven enterprise makes our portfolio of CPE the most extensive for secure SD-WAN across all sizes of branch and campuses. There’s no denying the growing importance of SD-WAN for providing secure and efficient connectivity of remote… Read more →

Kubernetes: The Modern-day Kernel / 

In the lead up to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019, we are posting a series of blogs covering what we expect to be some of the most prevalent topics at the event. In our first post , we walked through the journey from the… Read more →

Bringing Operational Simplicity to Data Centers with Contrail Insights / 

Data centers are the epitome of infrastructure automation, and their modern manifestation—cloud—provides an almost magical platform for its users. To construct clouds, separation of concerns into layers of abstraction, like network overlays and service API encapsulations, help enable service agility and innovation. But do these… Read more →

Software-Defined, a Decade Later / 

The first African-American president had been sworn in, the king of pop had just passed, @realDonaldTrump had taken to tweeting, and Avatar was about to smash box-office records, but what I remember about the summer of 2009 is the dawn of software-defined. Read more →

Introducing NRE Labs / 

“The 80s called and they want their CLI back.” Until recently, that was basically the beckoning call of the network automation and programmability plot. Like a broken record, the replayed attention on tools and APIs talked of new NetOps technology, but it didn’t paint a… Read more →

5 Steps to Automated NetOps / 

In Juniper Networks anthology of 5-step frameworks, we take a different turn. Instead of focusing on a network domain vertical like the 5-steps for data center, campus, WAN and branch, we are focused horizontally across all domains on network automation. This 5-step can apply to… Read more →

#SimpleAF Networking in 2018 / 

Last week at its flagship customer event, NXTWORK, Juniper Networks set a valiant vision for its role in the future of networking: “Engineering. Simplicity.” Next week as we take respite from engineering and set some 2018 goals, simplicity sounds good. Here are some of my… Read more →

A Contrarian Viewpoint on Container Networking / 

With DockerCon in Austin happening this week, I’m reminded of last year’s DockerCon Seattle, and watching some announcements with utter fascination or utter disappointment. Let’s see if we can’t turn the disappointments into positives. Read more →

The Best SDN for OpenStack, now for Kubernetes / 

In between two weeks of events as I write this, I got to stop at home and in the office for only a day, but I was excited by what I saw on Friday afternoon… The best SDN and network automation solution out there, OpenContrail,… Read more →

Fond Memories of 2016 / 

2016 was a year full of fun and adventure. To change up this blog installment, here is the video Linh and I shared on Facebook with our friends and families. Read more →

Meet the Fockers! What the Fork? / 

In the past week, all the rage (actual hacker rage in some forums) in the already hot area of containers is about forking Docker code, and I have to say, “what the fork?” Read more →

Having Fun with Marketing Fluff / 

Imagine you could walk up to someone and know their soul. Imagine they could know yours. To some extent, we all have a thirst to be able to get to the quintessence of someone or something like this, but I realized today that there are… Read more →

Getting to GIFEE with SDN: Demo / 

A few short years ago, espousing for open source and cloud computing was even more difficult than touting the importance of clean energy and the realities of climate change. The doubters and naysayers, vocal as they are, are full of reasons why things are (fine)… Read more →

Automation is Killing the Knowledge Economy / 

Still standing at the top of 2016 for only a few more hours, January that is, I’m compelled to follow-up on my outlook on the rise of IoT and setting of the Information Age, with a forecast on the nearer-term workings of automation to slay… Read more →

You Have the Wrong Idea About Cloud If… / 

This year has been marked by a lot of cloud evangelism to our customers, partners and field, but what I frequently find is that in evangelizing cloud and our corresponding products, I am talking about what cloud is not. In the purist sense of “cloud,”… Read more →

Life in the City of Lights and Love / 

Utterly startled, I suddenly darted my head and ears up like a rabbit. I was standing shoulder to shoulder aboard Le Metro, and while cramming onto the subway car, unbeknownst to me this morning, I’d been tailgated by a tattered Frenchman bearing an accordion. Without… Read more →

Open Sourcing Is Human Nature / 

Yesterday was Earth Day. It’s a time when we awe at our world, the good and the bad. I get the feeling that with every passing year Earth Day grows in importance. Maybe it is all those Netflix documentaries I've consumed starting from “An Inconvenient… Read more →

What is Open Good For? / 

Last week in a conversation with a customer I was asked about the differences between ODL and OpenContrail and if NorthStar was going open source as well. That discussion seemed interesting for a blog on approaching “open” networking, especially given we’ve just come thru the… Read more →