The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
IBM's role in Juniper's future data centre project, dubbed Stratus, could go well beyond these existing agreements, but the two have given few details of their relationship. However, in April they did stage an analyst roadshow from which Ovum analyst John Mazur reported "The alliance's roadmap will include seven initiatives to improve service, reduce costs and manage risk. These are: service management; asset management; virtualisation energy efficiency; business resilience; security; information infrastructure.
"IBM and Juniper's moniker for these data centre attributes is 'dynamic infrastructure'...IBM's Global Technology Solutions group, which is consulting-oriented, participates in the alliance for IBM, along with Juniper's Enterprise team."
Other than that, he said few details had been given "The IBM–Juniper alliance has been in the works for at least a year, and the players claim that tens of millions of dollars are committed to joint development, but specific details and product plans are yet to be announced, with no set schedule. A Tivoli/Junos management solution and IBM blade centre ethernet switch blade based on Juniper's EX seem likely."
Announcing this latest OEM agreement, Juniper said of IBM's role in Stratus: "[We] have jointly collaborated on a global technology demonstration highlighting how enterprises can seamlessly extend their private data centre clouds. Through this collaboration, IBM and Juniper continue to install advanced networking capabilities into IBM's ten worldwide Cloud Labs for customer engagements. Once installed, IBM and Juniper will be able to seamlessly move client computing workloads between private and publicly managed cloud environments enabling customers to reliably deliver on service level agreements."
Also, Juniper said: "Continued research and innovation in cloud computing security has been another focus for IBM and Juniper. The companies are jointly researching cloud computing security models to highlight how customers can mitigate attacks on corporate data and computer systems."
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