Comments on: IBM Fires Juniper-Loaded Salvo at Cisco

By: IBM Turns Back on Juniper to Buy Blade Networks: Cloud «

IBM Turns Back on Juniper to Buy Blade Networks: Cloud « — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:37:21 +0000

[...] October. The deal is also a bit of bad news for Juniper, the networking and switch maker that had a deepening partnership with IBM in the wake of Cisco launching its competitive entry into the server market, thereby alienating its [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:19:59 +0000

Here is another good one

http://www.ciosolutions.com/articles/90-what-does-juniper-really-bring-to-the-table-that-cisco-does-not-already-provide

By: Is Competition Starting to Eat Into Cisco’s Core Markets? – GigaOM

Is Competition Starting to Eat Into Cisco’s Core Markets? – GigaOM — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:10:06 +0000

[...] increasingly desperate competitors. The very fact Cisco has made enemies of former partners such as IBM is only going to hurt the company. : Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Juniper [...]

By: HP and Microsoft Buddy Up for Cloud Computing – GigaOM

HP and Microsoft Buddy Up for Cloud Computing – GigaOM — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:52:26 +0000

[...] the next generation computing model, hardware, software and networking companies are buddying up to create a data center that runs like a [...]

By: Dell Teams Up With Brocade to Tackle Cisco’s Vision for Computing

Dell Teams Up With Brocade to Tackle Cisco’s Vision for Computing — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:42:19 +0000

[...] boxes and take a cut of the sales of Brocades switches. It’s a deal similar to the one IBM signed earlier this summer with Juniper, another network gear maker. IBM also has a deal to resell and brand Brocade switches under its [...]

By: Old English Teacher

Old English Teacher — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:02:54 +0000

Stratus, rather than Startus.

By: BotchagalupeMarks for July 22nd - 06:18 | IT Management and Cloud Blog

BotchagalupeMarks for July 22nd - 06:18 | IT Management and Cloud Blog — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:50:08 +0000

[...] IBM Fires Juniper-Loaded Salvo at Cisco – IBM said today it will resell switches and routers made by Juniper under the IBM brand to compliment Big Blue’s server products aimed at data centers. The move is a direct response to Cisco’s creation of its own brand of servers it calls the Unified Computing System, as well as efforts by Hewlett-Packard to bring that company’s ProCurve networking gear closer to its servers. They’re all part of a larger attempt to keep pushing the boundaries of virtualization beyond hardware and into the network itself. [...]

By: les madras

les madras — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:57:09 +0000

like Safeway is a meat company?

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:27:15 +0000

Interesting move by IBM. I personally thought they would buy another switching company rather than private label someone else’s. We recently wrote an article -> http://www.ciosolutions.com/articles/12-juniper-vs-cisco about Juniper and them being a viable threat to cisco in the enterprise switching and routing market. To me IBM understands that Juniper Networks with their portfolio of products combined with their Market Cap equals a company that can chip away at Cisco’s dominance in the enterprise switching and routing space. I don’t know if IBM knows how they will leverage this weapon yet but I am sure time will tell.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:17:46 +0000

If you call 37% of the $53 billion year server market not enough to be a product company, then you are right. Rest of your points are absolutely right. And that is why Cisco needs to be worried about IBM and its new friendships.