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Juniper invests in cloud and big data

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.

Cloudscaling is one of a handful of companies integrating and co-marketing Juniper's JunosV Contrail SDN controller along with its own products. Contrail is expected to ship at mid-year.
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Your source for the latest LAN (local area network) and WAN (wide area network) news, opinion, product comparisons and reviews.

This morning, Aruba Networks announced its ClientMatch solution to the annoying problem of the "sticky" device.

Technologies of the next-generation enterprise WAN architecture deliver both of these at higher bandwidth and lower cost than MPLS.

Issues related to MTU size, PMTUD and packet fragmentation

Just one of the many new "RST" sessions for CiscoLive Orlando: June 23rd-27th

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Sprint Nextel has increased its offer to buy out Clearwire, bidding US$3.40 per share, to counter a...

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