Juniper Networks has recently introduced its new Data Center Infrastructure Solutions designed to advance IT initiatives for data center consolidation, server virtualization and sustainable information technology. These solutions aim to reduce network complexity and total cost of ownership by up to 52 percent in capital expenditures, up to 44 percent in power, up to 44 percent in cooling and up to 55 percent in rack space in the data center.

The company’s solutions aim to enable customers to achieve greater operational simplicity, agility and efficiency for accelerating the deployment of new applications and services.  The solutions have all the switching, routing and security technologies running on a single network operating system namely the JUNOS software.

“We have a proven track record in enabling high-performance businesses to scale their networks without compromise,” said Sanjay Jotshi at Juniper Networks. “We are now extending the expertise we have gained from mission-critical deployments worldwide into the data center. Our solutions empower businesses, offering them choice and the ability to drive down the cost and complexity of managing their data center networks, which enable them to realize the fullest return on investment in technologies such as server virtualization.”

The solutions offer benefits such as simplicity of the data center network design with the combination of the EX-, MX- and SRX-series products to consolidate services and data center switching layers. They also aim to enable customers to achieve unmatched carrier-grade reliability and operational agility by streamlining provisioning, management, troubleshooting and maintenance of the data center infrastructure on a single management framework and operating system.

The JUNOS OS will enable customers to reduce the numerous complex network operating systems to a single OS across the routing, switching, and network services infrastructure automating network operations thereby minimizing complexity and risk while reducing operating costs by up to 25 percent. The solutions collapse layers and consolidate appliances to make the data center network more efficient to operate and manage. The simplified approach also aims to lower power, cooling and space requirements to significantly reduce customers’ total cost of ownership.

The new solutions are supported by strategic partner IBM and customers including Advanced MD Software, AOL, Commerce Bank and Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at UCLA.