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Juniper Networks is a leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of virtualized desktops, servers, and applications over a single network.

Juniper and Microsoft Virtualization

Microsoft and Juniper Networks partner to provide a reliable, scalable, and secure virtualization solution from the desktop to the data center with high-performance networking.

Microsoft and Juniper Networks help you realize the value of virtualization technologies. Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V virtualization technology unleashes the potential of virtualizing resource-intensive workloads in the data center. Juniper enables you to utilize the full potential of virtualization with secure network solutions you can count on for low latency, carrier-class reliability, and fast performance. Together the companies deliver cost-effective, powerful, enterprise-ready virtualization solutions.

  • Virtualize Your Infrastructure: Shrink data center costs using Hyper-V to minimize hardware and energy consumption and to simplify IT environments; simplify your network with Juniper Networks Virtual Chassis™ technology that consolidates up to ten Ethernet switches.

  • Improve Business Continuity: Protect IT infrastructures with the micro-kernalized hypervisor from Hyper-V; ensure high availability for desktop and server virtualization using Juniper Networks EX-series Ethernet switches running the fault-tolerant and self-healing JUNOS® operating system.

  • Expect High Performance: Boost application performance between virtual machines with low latency data center network infrastructure from Juniper Networks.

Customer Scenario

Server, desktop, and presentation virtualization depend on an always-on network that delivers consistent, high-performance connections. Hosting multiple virtual resources on a few physical machines requires higher network availability than a traditional server environment. And when organizations combine virtual machines with different workloads that send different traffic types over the network, it is difficult to maintain consistent network performance to optimize traffic flow. For any virtualization project, network security, reliability, and performance are key to success. Organizations need to make sure that their underlying network is optimized to handle the challenges of a virtualized environment.

Juniper + Microsoft Solution

Together, Microsoft and Juniper Networks enable organizations to realize the full value of data center and desktop virtualization:

  • Juniper Networks EX-series Ethernet switches represent a new era in networking. This family of high-performance, carrier-class networking solutions is designed to create a secure, reliable network that is ideal for today's virtualized desktop and server deployments. EX-series Ethernet switches are easy to deploy and manage, allowing the design of more energy-efficient networks, with the flexibility to innovate with confidence. Powered by JUNOS software—the field-tested and customer-proven operating system used by Juniper high-performance networking routers—EX-series enables users to roll out virtual desktops and servers that enhance business operations without threatening network performance. Offering fixed-configuration, virtual-chassis, and Terabit-chassis models, all running the same JUNOS software, EX-series Ethernet switches deliver the network reliability, integrated security, and fast performance that are essential for virtualized environments.

  • Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V consolidates multiple server roles as separate virtual machines running on a single physical machine so that users can efficiently run multiple operating systems—Windows, Linux, and others—in parallel, on a single server, and take advantage of the 64-bit operating environment.

  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 enables centralized management of physical and virtual IT infrastructures, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms.

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Juniper

"Microsoft is focused on delivering broad virtualization and management solutions for the desktop and datacenter and collaborating with partners to extend these solutions to address the needs of our customers,” said Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing within Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business. “By partnering with Juniper Networks, our mutual customers have the ability to accelerate their virtualization deployments while maintaining the performance, reliability and security of their networks."

Mark Bowker, industry analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, discusses virtualization with Jim Schwartz of Microsoft and Bobby Guhasarkar of Juniper.

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