Lenovo and Juniper Networks announce global partnership

Lenovo and Juniper Networks have announced the commencement of a global strategic partnership to leverage synergies in their respective product and technology portfolios to build the next generation of converged, hyper-converged, and hyper-scale data centre infrastructure solutions for enterprise and web-scale customers.

The key planned principles of the partnership:

• Customers will be able to purchase Juniper's broad portfolio of networking products directly from Lenovo for easier acquisition, as well as consolidated support.

• With the move to disaggregation of hardware and software in the data centre, the two companies intend to bring open, flexible solutions to market, leveraging the ONIE (Open Network Install Environment) model.

• Keeping in mind customer needs for fast provisioning and easy administration, both companies expect to collaborate to offer simplified management and orchestration in the data centre leveraging Lenovo's xClarity management software as well as Juniper's Network Director and Contrail SDN software.

• In addition, the two companies plan to collaborate around go to market on a worldwide basis targeting enterprise customers, service providers, channel partners as well as system integrators.

• Lenovo and Juniper aim to develop joint go-to-market plans and a tailor-made resell model to address unique localization requirements in China.