cloud networking

Juniper/NYSE join forces on data center design

Juniper and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced a joint project to create a new ultra-low-latency data center design that the exchange will deploy in both its NYC metro and London metro data centers. This deal will be converting to Juniper’s new data center Stratus fabric in the future, to achieve a next-level flattening of the connection structure and further reduce latency.

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Microsoft’s cloud strategies

Microsoft is still playing coy with its Azure cloud computing pricing, but there is little question that Microsoft and IBM are both gearing up for more competition in the space, and other players like Sun and HP are doing likewise.

Cloud computing is a typical emerging market in tech—vague and multiply defined. But it appears that the early opportunities for cloud computing will come in areas like hosting some web content, supporting collaboration and other interpersonal communications applications, and perhaps some backup/offload.

The broader transition to cloud computing must come, as IBM suggests, from the reorientation of current application architectures to something more mashup-friendly and better able to take advantage of selective movement of applications to the cloud, and also to broader private cloud usage by enterprises. We think most of this won’t happen until 2H10 or later.