Jose Mejia, senior vice president of the Business Capability Enablement Group for Juniper Networks, has joined the board of directors for Star Nutrition, Inc. Mejia will offer his business experience to Star Nutriion as the health care products company continues to expand. Prior to working with Juniper Networks, Mejia was …

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) last week announced two key appointments to its operations team: Bask Iyer as senior vice president and chief information officer and Martin J. Garvin as senior vice president of manufacturing operations. Iyer most recently served as Honeywell’s companywide CIO and as a member of the leadership …

Juniper Networks has appointed Adrian Pickering to the role of area vice president, Middle East and Africa. Pickering’s new position will require him to drive sales and operations across the Middle East and Africa region for service provider and enterprise markets. He will report to Sean Dolan, senior vice president, …

Juniper Networks’ (NYSE: JNPR) website Customer Support Center has been named among the 10 best web support sites of this year by the Association of Support Professionals. A panel of judges selected the award winners using a scoring system based on 25 separate performance criteria. The evaluation process considers overall …

Technology blog GigaOm.com has named the Top 50 Cloud Innovators of 2011, and companies such as Cisco, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Juniper, Red Hat and Verizon made the list. The cloud division of the site called the Structure started a cloud conference and crafted the list after noticing the cloud trend …

Cisco announced it has named former Juniper executive David Yen to head its Server Access and Virtualization Technology Group. As general manager and senior vice president for SAVTG, Yen will report to the co-leaders of Cisco’s engineering organization, Senior Vice Presidents Padmasree Warrior and Pankaj Patel. Most recently, Yen  served …

Juniper is sponsoring the Enterprise Cloud Summit and Carrier Cloud Forum at the Interlop Las Vegas, an IT conference and expo that focuses on virtualization, security, cloud and mobility. A finalist for the Best of Interlop Award, Juniper will showcase its new data centers including the QFabric Architecture. This exponential …

IT firm Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) was named to the 2011 “Most Ethical Companies” list by the Ethisphere Institute, a think tank devoted to improving business and corporate ethics. Juniper Networks was recognized for its sound business practices and initiatives. “At Juniper, we believe who we are on the inside …

Juniper Networks Senior Vice President and General Manager of Ethernet Switching Alex Gray is set to discuss recent innovations in data center network architectures that deliver a quantum leap in performance, scale and simplification during a keynote address to the Ethernet Technology Summit on Thursday. In addition, the company will …

Juniper Networks executives will participate in various speaking engagement at the 2011 RSA conference, covering topics ranging from mobile device security to the impact of cyber attacks, the firm announced. In the “Defend Your Mobile Life” Plenary Session, Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager of the Service Layer …

As part of its foray into the enterprise networking market, Juniper Networks has opened a new location in Pittsburgh, Pa., according to Pittsburgh Businesstimes. The new sales office is located in One Oxford Center and is staffed with two people–with room to expand if needed. “Pittsburgh represents an amazing market …

Juniper Networks has purchased Altor Networks, a provider of virtualization security technology,  for a cash purchase price of approximately $95 million. The new deal expands Juniper’s existing technology partnership with Altor as well as its leadership in security for both the enterprise and service provider virtualization markets, Juniper said. “Juniper …

The Office of Management and Budget has outlined a 25-point plan to reform the ways federal agencies use technology, something federal CIO Vivek Kundra has called an end to “throwing good money after bad money.” Agencies’ new focus would be on email, storage and telecommunications, as well as major IT …

Juniper Networks CEO Kevin Johnson and Frank Vitagliano, senior vice president of Americas Partners, have been named to Everything Channel’s CRN magazine Top 100 Most Influential Executives list. Johnson made his debut on the CRN Top 100 list in 2009 as one of the IT industry’s top mavericks. Under his …

Juniper Networks has named former Alacatel-Lucent executive Sean Dolan to the role of senior vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa. In his new role, Dolan will be responsible for sales development, training and enablement, strategic planning, customer engagement and revenue growth, among other areas. Reporting to John Morris, …