Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) is set to promote its software-defined networking (SDN) strategy at the company’s Global Partner Conference this week in Las Vegas. But can Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson and his lieutenants stand out from SDN moves by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), VMware (NYSE: VMW), Brocade Networks (NASDAQ: BRCD) and more?
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) is set to host a global partner conference Jan. 16-18 in Las Vegas. It’s one of the Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences of 2013, The VAR Guy asserts. So where is Juniper heading next with converged data centers, security, software-defined networking and a little trend called cloud computing?
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) is questioning rival Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), claiming the industry’s “big dog” will have a hard time transitioning to software-defined networks (SDN). Bob Muglia, executive VP of Software Solutions at Juniper, questioned Cisco’s ability to get all of its business divisions focused on a common SDN goal.
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) has hired former CRN Editor-at-Large Chad Berndtson to help drive the networking company’s channel-focused content development, communications and social media strategy.
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) is finalizing plans to host a January 2013 global partner conference in Las Vegas. In the meantime, Juniper Senior VP Frank Vitagliano sounds upbeat about the networking and security company. The reason: The Juniper Partner Advantage Program, which offers some back-end rewards to to VARs, is off to a good start.
Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) alerted its channel partners this week that its remodeled Partner Advantage program is street ready, making good on its January promise to equip them with the right marketing support, rewards and sales and technical training to compete in today’s mobility and cloud-dominated marketplace.
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) are running their annual channel partner conferences the same week (Jan. 14-16, 2013). Both conferences are on The VAR Guy’s list of Top 100 Channel Partner Events for 2013. So will The VAR Guy’s team attend the Red Hat or Juniper conference?
The goal: Attend both.
The VAR Guy’s head is spinning. Just about every major networking company — Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and more — claims to lead the software-defined networking (SDN) market. That leadership either involves shipping products, overall vision or both.
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) is reshuffling channel executives, returning Wendy Bahr, the company’s well-known and highly regarded partner organization veteran, to head its Americas channel organization, replacing Jim Sherriff, who departs after two years to lead sales for the global Accelerated Cisco Transformation (ACT) program.
Bahr will show up for work having already digested a portion of her
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