Media Advisory: Juniper Networks Reinforces Leadership in Openness and Integration at OpenStack Barcelona 2016

SUNNYVALE, CA –(Marketwired – October 21, 2016) – Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced details of participation at the OpenStack Summit Barcelona. This event is one of the most significant gatherings of IT leaders, telco operators, cloud administrators, app developers and OpenStack contributors building the future of cloud computing.

At the conference, Juniper will showcase its broad and deep OpenStack integration and discuss bridging various cloud technologies, with a focus on automation and security. Juniper’s ongoing commitment to OpenStack will be reinforced by announcements that will extend our partnerships with several key vendors. Additionally, cloud visionary Randy Bias will be making his public debut as Juniper’s newly appointed vice president of technology and cloud software products at the show.

Juniper will also be featured in a number of customer-led sessions throughout the event, including Workday, Deutsche Telekom AG, AT&T and others. Additionally, Juniper’s senior director of SDN and virtualization, Scott Sneddon, will participate in a panel discussing ‘A Workload-Centric View of OpenStack Cloud Economics.’

Juniper Session Highlights:

  • OpenStack Journey in Tieto Elastic Cloud
    Speakers: Lukáš Kubín – Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Tieto
    Jakub Pavlík – director, product engineering, Mirantis and Open Contrail Advisory Board member
    Date: Wednesday, October 26, 12:15pm-12:55pm CET
  • Gluon – Accelerating Development of New Networking Services for OpenStack
    Speakers: Marco Rodrigues – systems engineer, Juniper Networks
    Tobias Ford – AVP of cloud infrastructure and platform architecture & strategy, AT&T
    Jeff Collins – solutions manager, Ericsson
    Ian Wells – principal engineer, Cisco
    Vincent Button – director of innovation, AT&T Foundry
    Date: Thursday, October 27, 4:40pm-5:20pm CET

Adding to the activity onsite at the show, Juniper will be complementing the OpenStack Summit by once again hosting the OpenContrail user group (OCUG) meeting alongside the main event. The OCUG enables Contrail customers to share their personal experiences of deploying Contrail Networking in their private, public and hybrid clouds. There are limited seats available for this free -to-attend user group and registration is a must. The user group will be hosted at Hotel Diagonal Zero on October 26, 2016 5:30pm – 8pm CET.

Media/Analyst Briefings
Media/industry analyst briefings and technology demonstrations with Juniper will be available throughout the event. To schedule in advance, please contact Ian Williams ([email protected]).

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Media Relations:
Ian Williams
Juniper Networks
+44 (0) 1372 385 611
[email protected]