Juniper, IBM partner for data center hosting agreement

IBM and Juniper Networks announced they have signed a five-year, data center
hosting agreement with IBM to support Juniper's global operations.

As part of the agreement, IBM will provide Juniper with a next-generation,
global hosting environment to support its enterprise resource planning (ERP) and
customer relationship management (CRM) application deployments worldwide. IBM
will host Juniper's operations from its new energy-efficient 'green' data center
in Boulder, Colorado, USA. The center features leading-edge techno­logies and
services, including high density computing systems utilizing virtualization
techno­logy, along with energy efficient power and cooling technologies.

“In tandem with our continuous focus on addressing the high-performance
networ­king requirements of our global customers, we remain equally focused on
achieving opera­tional excellence in each and every aspect of our own business,”
said Michele Goins, CIO, Juniper Networks, Inc. “We turned to IBM for an
innovative and environmentally-friendly solution to scaling our IT
infrastructure and business-critical application deployments in-line with the
escalating demands of our business.”

“By partnering with IBM, Juniper will have access to energy efficient data
center technology and hosting services freeing them to focus on serving their
customers,” said Bronwyn Guthrie, VP-Strategic Outsour­cing, Americas, IBM.