Juniper to develop next gen data centre fabric
ConvergenceAsia staff
02/03/2009

High-performance networking company Juniper Networks has unveiled a programme to deliver the next generation data centre fabric. The programme, code-named the Stratus Project, represents an initiative to create a single data centre fabric that will deliver a quantum jump in scale, performance and simplicity, with the flexibility to support fully converged and virtualised data centre environments.

The Stratus Project is being developed by the newly announced Data Center Business Group, under the leadership of Executive Vice President David Yen.

Legacy architectures constrain today’s data centres as they attempt to cope with the exponential increase in applications, servers, storage and network traffic. Juniper has created a long-term strategy to develop a single data centre fabric with the flexibility and performance to scale to super data centers, while continuing to drive down the cost and complexity of managing the data centre information infrastructure.

Juniper’s Stratus Project addresses the modern mega data centre’s pain points and endeavours to enable cloud computing to fulfill its maximum potential, said Yen. “Reinventing and flattening the data centre network is a very hard problem to solve and it requires a unique set of expertise and resources to tackle this challenge. High-performance businesses are in search of operational innovation and Juniper is committed to helping customers advance the economics of high-performance networking by creating a more elastic and efficient infrastructure from which to deliver services at unmatched scale while minimising total cost of ownership.”

The Stratus Project, which has been underway for more than one year, was coined after the meteorological term ‘stratus,’ defined as a flat, single-layer cloud. The Project, initially inspired and led by Juniper’s CTO and Founder Pradeep Sindhu, now spans across multiple business groups and has resulted in more than 30 patent applications filed to date.

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