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NEWS Juniper Networks named a Leader in Data Center Networking uniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, has announced it has been named a Leader by Gartner, Inc. in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking. “It is a time of significant change in our industry and our focus at Juniper has been helping our enterprise customers navigate J the transition to multi cloud and beyond,” said Manoj Leelanivas, Chief Product Officer at Juniper Networks. “For us, to once again be recognised by Gartner as a leader in the data centre space reinforces what we’re already hearing from our customers and partners – that Juniper is the best choice for enterprises looking to simplify multi-cloud operations. “Our vision, coupled with our commitment to engineering simplicity, is the foundation of our work and what sets us apart from our competitors.” In April, Juniper also received customer recognition and was designated as a 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice vendor for Data Center Networking and/ or Software Solutions. Based on real feedback from 250 ratings, Juniper earned a 4.7 out of 5 average rating for that market, as of July 17 2019. Developed with enterprise customers in mind, Juniper’s solutions simplify operations across heterogeneous environments, focusing on infrastructure orchestration, automation, programmability, ease of management, visibility and analytics. Cloud and transformation initiatives at risk of delay or failure erto, an industry leader for IT resilience, has announced the full findings of its sponsored IDC survey, Worldwide Business Resilience Readiness Thought Leadership Survey. • • A total of 56% of respondents had an event resulting in unrecoverable data loss and the top causes of this loss were often avoidable (i.e. the event occurred during a gap between backups, backup/recovery system failures, etc.) The subsequent report revealed that 91% of respondents have experienced a tech-related disruption in the past two years and yet 82% of respondents said data protection and recovery are important to their Digital Transformation projects. Visit zerto.com/page/the-state-of-it-resilience-report-request/ for more information. Z The white paper illustrates a perception gap between IT and business decision makers regarding the importance of data availability and success of Digital Transformation/IT transformation initiatives. Key indicators of perception gap, supported by research findings: • • More than 80% of respondents indicated senior management does not believe there is a high correlation between the quality/availability of data and organisational success • • Only 11.4% of respondents indicated the highest level of IT resilience maturity • • A total of 91.2% of respondents reported experiencing some type of business disruption in the last two years (from a variety of causes) www.intelligentdatacentres.com Issue 07 7