Juniper Networks acquires Appformix "upgraded" products, and has heard that Fortune 500 companies are using

Nan Bambu

"IT strategist "

the transaction has not disclosed the specific purchase price, but Appformix still retains its independent operations and continues to develop its own Appformix platform, and the current user does not need to make any changes. Juniper said:Juniper plans to Appformix Telemetry and operations management and Paired with Contrail product lines to improve cloud orchestration, security, and planning,Juniper users benefit from smarter, more automated operations at a lower cost.

Juniper is a network communications equipment company, in 1996 years by the Cisco part of the staff left after the founding, the main product line includes wide area network acceleration, router product family, firewall, network switch and service deployment system, which Juniper Network products have a large share in the world.

Appformix was founded by Sumeet Singh in the year after Sumeet Singh took office at Microsoft and Cisco , who is The leader of the Microsoft Azure networking team. The appformix software platform is used in cloud environments, primarily in distributed architectures leveraging data flow analysis and machine learning, which is suitable for any OpenStack or Kubernetes distribution, including real-time and historical monitoring, visibility services, dynamic performance optimization.

Appformixand theJuniper's AllOpenStackand theKubernetesActive members of the community, two companies have said they want toOpenStackand theKubernetestwo technical, developed forDevOpsand developer Services in an automated monitoring environment. Juniper CTO Pradeep Sindhuthink thatJuniperusers are looking for an automated infrastructure to acquireAppformixwill accelerateJuniperThe process of achieving this goal. Upon completion of the acquisition,Appformixthe Orchestration System technology can be migrated toJuniperof theContrailsystem, which is exactlyJunipervalue.

Speak UpContrailsystem that has to be mentioned isJuniperanother layout on the network product path. -years,Juniperto about1.76billions of dollars in price acquisitionsSDN(software defined network) startupsContrail Systems. ContrailCompany wasJuniperprior to the acquisition, a software-defined network was developed (software-defined Networking"products that have been considered by some on Wall Street to be a threat to traditional routers and switches.

Following the acquisition of Contrail Company, Juniper introduced the junosv Contrail series products, including standards-based SDN Open Controller-- JUNOSV Contrail Controller. It is reported thatJUNOSV Contrail has been in the Fortune of the global operators and enterprise customers to be tested.

junosv contrailit Architecture and multiple cloud platforms for centralized control. The solution enables network virtualization for seamless automation and orchestration between private and public cloud environments, based on ip elastic management of network and security services, and the provision of enhanced analysis, diagnostics, and reporting " Big Data infrastructure " appformix , both juniper The combination of company technology and product line, also juniper in the network products, another open territory. In fact, the juniper in terms of network products, has always been a movement.

In 8 months this year ,Juniper announced the acquisition of Aurrion, a crystal-free photonic maker , and the price was also not disclosed. Juniper said they will plan to use aurrion to strengthen optical network technology, let Juniper Bring advanced networking products to market quickly.

In addition to acquisitions, Juniper also reached a global strategic cooperation agreement with Lenovo two times this year. For the first time, the two sides announced that they will jointly provide next-generation data center infrastructure solutions for both corporate customers and network-wide customers; the second Lenovo announced that it will distribute Juniper 's network products in China starting in the third quarter of this year. Sold to customers in the form of standalone products or in conjunction with Lenovo products. It is learnt thatJuniper Frequent action behind, is the network equipment localization background,Juniper in the domestic market continues to lower. Co-operation with Lenovo is expected to drive Juniper 's performance.

JuniperThe first year was created byAnschutzFamily(Qwestmajor shareholder of the company), at, Ericsson, Lucent, Nortel Networks, Siemens/newbridge Networks,3Comand theUUNETand other companies ' early investments. With the support of these heavyweight companies,Junipergradually obtained the network equipment market about30%'s share. These market shares were actually taken from Cisco, but recently the network equipment market has entered a weak phase.

IDC recently released the first quarter of the year China Network Equipment Market Tracking report, the first quarter of China's enterprise-class network equipment Market size of 63.4 billion yuan, the chain down 34.0%, down 0.8%; integrated enterprise network and Operator Market View,L2/3 switch Year down 11.6% , the router has grown 17.3% , but over the years the routing market has always been a super-strong situation, the moment will not change too much.

Cisco still dominates the global router market, with a share close to 40%. In addition to Cisco,Juniper, Huawei, Alcatel - Lucent have the same strength, with a share of 10%~15%, and others carve out the remaining shares. Thanks to the country's strong investment in information construction, the domestic network market is very prosperous, in addition to several big giants, the current market also has a large number of network equipment providers. With The advent of the 5G era, the network product market will usher in a new wave of business opportunities, a good user experience, can be said to be the most not go wrong at the moment of chess.

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Juniper Networks acquires Appformix "upgraded" products, and has heard that Fortune 500 companies are using