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CXO Speak
What are the networking industry
trends in various domains and
how is Juniper looking at
addressing these trends through
its products and solutions?
The trends in networking are
dynamic and interesting at the same
time. The top trends can be elaborated
as:
◗◗Cloud networking: Cloud is
engulfing the world whereby 50 per
cent of enterprise applications will be
in the cloud by 2020. Every single
company is leveraging the cloud. Of
course, the drivers here are economics
(sometimes cheaper, but also you pay
for what you use so you avoid stranded
capital) and agility (you have a nearly
limitless, on-demand resource pool). As
the world moves digital and companies
are afraid of getting disrupted (as many
industries have), leveraging cloud is the
way to play defense and ultimately
offense for any business.
◗◗Security: We are aware that every
company must combat cyber threats. In
fact, it will be a US$ 8 trillion-dollar fight
by 2022. Why is that? The number of
threats continues to grow rapidly. And
the bad actors are highly sophisticated
and well-funded – they are nation
states and organised cyber-crime.
Cybersecurity is a Board of Directors
level issue for every company because
they don’t want to end up on the front
page (in a bad way). The other
challenge companies face is a severe
shortage of qualified cybersecurity
professionals (estimated that in 2020,there will be two million unfilled cyber
security jobs globally). More threats
and fewer people mean that a new,
automated approach is needed to stay
ahead of the bad guys.◗◗ Economics: People have an
insatiable desire for new applications,
video, etc., and enterprises are seeing
their network traffic grow rapidly
while their IT budgets are flat (if they
are lucky). This puts a severe strain on
existing networks, and this is where
Juniper innovates to help its
customers keep up with this traffic
growth while not breaking the bank.
There are also some emerging trends
that will fundamentally shape how
businesses approach IT and their
networks as below.◗◗IoT is coming: Over 75 billion
connected devices in 2025, that’s up
from less than 10 billion today. Every
business will have their infrastructure
connected. We’ll have connected cities,
cars, and manufacturing plants. All of
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WIRED LAN, TO THE WANUS based networking solutions company, Juniper Networks, focuses on tackling network
complexity for its clients. Complexity leads to billions of dollars of lost productivity. It
exposes to security risks; it traps talent stuck keeping the lights on instead of innovating,
which downright cripples some companies. It is the new hard problem to solve in IT.
Juniper, which has as its hall of fame in its customer base with 17 of 20 world’s largest
banks; seven of 10 top global universities; more than 1400 locations for national
governments; 10 of 12 top technology companies; nine of 10 top global web service
providers; and 10 of 10 world’s largest wireline and wireless telecom companies, is readying
itself for more at all instances. In an interaction with Moumita Deb Choudhury,
M Muthukumar, MD, Juniper Networks IEC spells more on Juniper’s forthcoming plans