A tale of two next gen data centre architectures

| March 25, 2009 | 0 Comments

In this two part services, Green Telecom explores the recently announced strategies by two of the world’s biggest enterprise data networking players, Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems. Both companies revealed recently major initiatives to target increasingly sophisticated data centres needed for hosting new applications and operating environments, i.e. cloud computing.

Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In this first article of a two part series on the two companies’ strategy and visions for cloud-based computing infrastructure , Green Telecom talks to Lam Chee Keong, regional enterprise solutions manager at Juniper Networks, about the thinking behind its Stratos Project and why there’s a need for a single fabric.

Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
In this Part 2 of our next generation data centre architecture series, Andre Smit, Cisco’s managing director of data centre sales in the Asia Pacific, and Pete Nicholls, business development manager for data centres in the region, explains the thinking behind the strategic move and the technology powering the new Unified Computing architecture.

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