Leidos has established a new program that aims to advance innovation, build up program performance and facilitate the delivery of technology platforms designed to meet clients’ mission needs with the use of the company’s supplier base. The company said Wednesday the Leidos Alliance Partner Network consists of corporate strategic, technology …
Read More »Juniper Unveils Security Platform for Cloud-Based Apps
Juniper Networks has begun to offer a security and micro-segmentation platform designed to protect cloud-based applications. The Juniper Contrail Security tool works to employ automated application traffic discovery and policy enforcement to mitigate threats facing applications that run on cloud environments, Juniper said Tuesday. Contrail Security offers threat prevention, policy management, …
Read More »MEF Releases List of Finalists for 2016 Excellence Awards; Nan Chen Comments
MEF has announced finalists for the company’s 2016 Excellence Awards that recognizes service, application, technology and professional excellence in the global Third Network community. The company said Thursday it will present the awards in November at the MEF Excellence Awards Dinner as part of the MEF16 global networking conference. Global and regional senior analysts …
Read More »AMMROC Implements Juniper’s Network Mgmt, Security Platforms
A United Arab Emirates-based aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services provider has developed a network infrastructure based on Juniper Networks-built switching, security and network management technology. Advanced Military Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Center adopted Juniper’s SRX Series Services Gateways, EX Series Ethernet Switches and Junos Space Management Platform to manage the performance, scalability and …
Read More »AFCEA DC Elects Executive Board Members for 2016-2017; Dean Economou Comments
The Washington-based chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association has elected new members to its executive board for 2016 to 2017 and named Dean Economou, sales director for the Defense Department program at CenturyLink, as president. Nathan Jones, vice president of federal sales at Red Hat, will serve …
Read More »Executive Profile: Wayne Lewandowski, Area Vice President for Federal at Vormetric
Wayne Lewandowski serves as vice president of sales for U.S. federal clients at Vormetric since January 2013, with responsibility in overseeing the company’s effort to expand cybersecurity platform offerings. He previously served as regional manager of the Defense Department for the Plan B government systems, with partners such as Citrix, …
Read More »TeamTalk Subsidiary to Install Juniper Network Tech in Data Centers; Nick Willis Comments
A New Zealand-based TeamTalk company will install Juniper Networks-made Ethernet switches and Universal Edge routers for data centers in Wellington and Auckland, Reseller News reported Tuesday. Sathya Mithra Ashok writes CityLink aims to build up its infrastructure and customer offerings with the switch scheduled to happen during the first half of …
Read More »Juniper Report Shows Growing Mobile Malware Threats; Michael Callahan Comments
A Juniper Networks study has found that cyber attackers have escalated their malware strategies over a one-year period to exploit mobile devices for profit. Juniper’s third annual Mobile Threats Report revealed that malicious mobile applications have grown by 614 percent to 276,259 apps from March 2012 through March 2013, Juniper said …
Read More »EMC Division, Juniper Partner To Stop Network Attacks; Nawaf Bitar, Art Coviello Comment
EMC Corp.’s security arm RSA and Juniper Networks have agreed to share intelligence aimed at helping clients defend networks from advanced threats and access cloud-based corporate resources via mobile devices. RSA will integrate its Live threat intelligence delivery service into Juniper’s Junos Spotlight Secure global attacker intelligence service, RSA said Monday. …
Read More »Survey: 90 Percent of Businesses Get Cyber Attacked
Ninety percent of businesses have fallen victim to at least one cybersecurity breach in the last 12 months, according to a survey sponsored by Juniper Networks. A cyber attack on businesses is becoming “a near certainty for most businesses,” the survey noted, and companies say the typical breach has cost …
Read More »Adrian Pickering Joins Juniper Networks as VP, Middle East and Africa Region
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, …
Read More »Time to Transition to IPv6
Right before Father’s Day is another, lesser-known, notable occasion, namely World IPv6 day, which is acknowledged around the globe June 8 to meet the demand for more IP addresses. Vendors, service and content providers worldwide will turn on their IPv6 services in recognition of the day. Juniper Networks is one …
Read More »Dell, Cisco, Juniper Make Top 50 Cloud Innovators List
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 …
Read More »Juniper Exec David Yen Lands at Cisco to Lead Tech Group
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 …
Read More »Juniper Showcases New Data Centers at Conference
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 …
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