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Juniper invests in cloud and big data

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Not long after announcing an integration arrangement with the OpenStack cloud company, Juniper has invested in Cloudscaling's $10 million Series B round. Cloudscaling's Open Cloud System (OCS) product is an OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure for data centers that's designed to improve application provisioning and performance. Juniper joins Seagate as a new investor in Cloudscaling. Exisiting investor Trinity Ventures also participated in the round.

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