Channel Beat: Juniper Targets Rival Cisco

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Juniper Networks singled out Cisco this week when the company said its new reference architecture is significantly better than its competitor’s.

Juniper’s new Unite architecture provides a single network management platform for enterprises looking to deploy cloud apps and services. Juniper said Unite will provide superior scale and performance over Cisco’s application-centric architecture. Partners agreed Unite has the ability to take market share away from Cisco.

This week brought us more M&A activity: Barracuda Networks made a deal to acquire data protection company Intronis.

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Through the acquisition, Barracuda hopes to increase its presence in the MSP market, particularly around cloud backup services. Intronis will provide Barracuda with technology for data protection for servers, applications and virtual machines. Partners said Intronis will benefit from Barracuda’s strong brand recognition.

We’re just a month away from the official split date of HP into Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc., and the company raised $14.6 billion in the corporate bond market this week to prepare for the move.

HP will look to retire up to $8.85 billion in corporate debt before it splits. It will also sell new senior notes to prepare HP Inc. for a possible decline in the PC sales cycle. According to a report from Bloomberg, HP’s enterprise services business has lost about $4 billion in annual revenue over the last four years, due to declining revenue in legacy hardware and services markets.

PUBLISHED OCT. 2, 2015