The word “transformation” is suddenly everywhere. Business transformation, data center transformation, IT transformation—the term is in jeopardy of becoming a buzzword before anyone has actually achieved a transformation. But there is a reason for the sudden urgency, and what’s driving this trend is particularly relevant to providers of hosted services. Incremental improvement in service delivery is no longer adequate. It is no longer competitive

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3 WAYS TO ACCELERATE
YOUR TRANSFORMATION
TO CLOUD PROVIDER
Advice and Recommendations for Providers
of Hosted Services

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
#1: Simplify the Architecture to Streamline Management and Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
#2: Support Open Standards to Facilitate Integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
#3: Implement Smarter Technologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
About Juniper Networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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Executive Summary
The word “transformation” is suddenly everywhere. Business transformation, data center transformation, IT
transformation—the term is in jeopardy of becoming a buzzword before anyone has actually achieved a transformation.
But there is a reason for the sudden urgency, and what’s driving this trend is particularly relevant to providers of
hosted services. Incremental improvement in service delivery is no longer
adequate. It is no longer competitive.
To keep pace with demands, the network has to get smarter. That
means the data center network must quickly incorporate new features
and capabilities while also leveraging intelligence and analytics to
accelerate the adoption of new applications and services. Juniper is a
leader in helping providers of hosted services transition to the virtual data
center and has introduced many innovations that facilitate data center
transformation.
Introduction
As cloud-based delivery models permeate multiple types of hosted services—from broad-based IT as a Service
(ITaaS), to availability services, to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)—enterprise customers know there are new options
for increasing agility while slashing the cost of IT service delivery. And they are eager to take advantage—if they can
find the right service provider and the right cloud-based offerings.
For service providers, this can be both a threat and an unprecedented opportunity. The cloud model is a new way
of doing business, where services are dynamic, elastic, and billed based on consumption, which is a very different
business model than many hosted service providers have today. Many customers like this increased flexibility and
agility and will demand similar services from their providers. For the providers who move quickly enough, this will be an
opportunity to capture revenue and evolve their service portfolio for the next generation of customers. However, those
who fail to transition to the cloud will be at a competitive disadvantage.
The question is, what is the most effective way to accelerate the metamorphosis, and where can service providers turn
for the leading-edge technologies and expertise to fully exploit the market opportunities of the new world of many
clouds? Juniper has answers. This paper provides a brief overview of how Juniper’s “simple, open, and smart” approach
can help hosting service providers achieve a true data center transformation—and maximize business advantages.
#1: Simplify the Architecture to Streamline Management and Operations
In conversations with providers of hosted services, the issue of managing the increasing complexity of the environment
inevitably arises. The transition from a physical data center to virtualized, automated, and agile clouds has the
potential to introduce significant amounts of complexity. Resources that were once wholly physical are now connected
to virtual endpoints. Resources that were static are now dynamic and provisioned on demand. There are more
virtual machines and more network ports to connect them. The net result is an exponential growth in the number of
interactions with the network to get everything connected and communicating.
And since your business is based on your data center, you can’t afford to compromise on network performance,
reliability, or availability. Your cloud network solution needs to offer the same high performance delivered by your
network today—but with increased flexibility, agility, and automation.
In addition, as organizations grow they are rolling out more applications
and deploying more ports and switches to support them. This has led to a
proliferation of interconnected devices, which means more to manage
and troubleshoot.
Since infrastructure, applications, and IT services are becoming
increasingly network-aware and network-dependent, an effective
strategy to simplify the IT environment must begin with simplification
of the network architecture. This approach could in turn accelerate the
deployment and delivery of applications within and across multiple sites and clouds. Ideally, simplification would be
achieved by consolidating and combining switching, routing, and security platforms, leveraging programmable systems,
network orchestration, SDN, and open APIs that enable integration with the technology ecosystem. These are the
requirements and goals that drove the simplified design of Juniper Networks®
MetaFabric™
data center architecture.
A simplified network should also be simpler to manage, and this can be accomplished both by building the network
with fewer interconnected devices and through simplified operations via automation. Many of the enabling
technologies for automation can be delivered through the network operating system; for example, it can provide the
capability to write and run scripts that automate many networking tasks, which in turn helps eliminate the human
Gartner Technology Research
“Requirements for data center
networking equipment have evolved
rapidly during the past four years after
a period of architectural stability that
lasted at least 15 years.”
– Gartner
No Room for Compromise
Since your business is based on
your data center, you can’t afford to
compromise on network performance,
reliability, or availability.

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error that has traditionally been the cause of many outages. In addition, at the device level, the operating system
can support streamlined provisioning capabilities that reduce the time required to deploy new switches and other
infrastructure elements.
At the network level, what’s needed is a unified view into the entire network, including both virtualized and physical
environments, so that IT can manage it through a single pane of glass. The management solution should also integrate
with and support third-party products. It should make it easy to see how virtual servers are connected to virtual
switches and to which physical ports on which physical switches. And it should graphically show the connections,
allowing admins to cut the amount of time needed to isolate network issues in a complex environment.
Equally important, the management solution should provide the automation needed to configure the ports on physical
switches when virtual machines are moved from server to server. For example, when a virtual server belonging to
one VLAN is moved to a different physical server connected to a different physical switch, the management platform
should have the capability to automatically configure that switch to create the necessary VLAN so the virtual server is
ready to go once it is moved—eliminating a manual and time-consuming task.
In addition, the management solution can further simplify operations by providing fine-grained visibility into devices on
the network, including switches and routers. With a combination of total visibility into specific devices and any-to-any
connectivity in the architecture, the IT staff doesn’t need to overprovision racks and reserve floor space for resources
that may or may not be needed. They can allocate resources anywhere in the system, which simplifies the buildout and
prevents the need to deploy idle resources. This means less energy is consumed, OpEx is reduced, and there are fewer
spares to stock, reducing the burden on the operations and planning staff—and the whole environment, physical and
virtual, can be managed from a single pane of glass.
#2: Support Open Standards to Facilitate Integration
IT service providers spend hundreds of billions of dollars per year connecting data center systems, devices, networks,
applications, data, and APIs. Adhering to open standards can significantly reduce the cost and complexity of
connecting the unconnected, bridging the data center siloes, and making the transition to automated, orchestrated
service delivery.
That is why Juniper has embraced an open philosophy and today is a
leading advocate of open standards for cloud-based services. Based on
open interfaces, Juniper’s products maximize flexibility by integrating with
any heterogeneous data center environment without fear of vendor lock-in.
One recent example is the introduction of Juniper Networks Contrail, an
open, agile software-defined networking (SDN) solution that automates
and orchestrates the creation of highly scalable virtual networks. Service
providers can use Contrail virtual networks to harness the power of the
cloud for new Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings and virtualized managed services. Specific benefits for hosting
service providers include:
• Interoperability with operation and business support systems (OSS/BSS)
• Ability to remove dependency on physical appliances that add cost to cloud models
• Orchestration of network services
• Ability to manage service VMs, provide load balancing, and achieve service chaining without API integration
This type of SDN solution can also increase service provider agility by making it easier to migrate applications and IT
resources to more flexible private or hybrid cloud environments. Contrail readily integrates with open source software
and orchestration platforms such as OpenStack and CloudStack.
OpenStack is an open source cloud operating system that is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, and consists of a
series of interrelated projects that control large pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data
center. They are all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering users to provision
resources through a self-service Web interface. Hosting service providers can use OpenStack to automate network services
on Juniper equipment. Juniper has integrated its switching equipment with the OpenStack networking module called
Quantum, which is a pluggable, scalable, and API-driven system for managing networks. It can be used by administrators
to automate infrastructure in a cloud services model, giving them self-service control of network resources.
Avoid Vendor Lock-In
Based on open interfaces, Juniper’s
products maximize flexibility by
integrating with any heterogeneous
data center environment without fear
of vendor lock-in.

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#3: Implement Smarter Technologies
From cloud computing to mobility to big data and social media, all
of today’s technology trends place more demands on the network—
more traffic, more management and security issues, higher end-
user expectations for performance. To keep pace with demands, the
network has to get smarter. That means the data center network must
quickly incorporate new features and capabilities while also leveraging
intelligence and analytics to accelerate the adoption of new applications
and services.
Juniper is a leader in helping providers of hosted services transition to the virtual data center and has introduced many
innovations that facilitate data center transformation. To highlight just a few examples:
• Virtual Chassis offers organizations the flexibility to combine both 1 and 10GbE connections into a single working
switching structure with one IP address. While this certainly benefits all size organizations, it is particularly relevant to
smaller, less resourced enterprises that are keen on protecting their infrastructure investments as their needs grow. Virtual
Chassis technology can interconnect up to 10 switches, allowing organizations to manage those multiple switches as a
single, logical device, relieving smaller IT organizations of numerous management headaches.
• Virtual Chassis Fabric offers organizations even more scalability in network design. Virtual Chassis Fabric supports up
to 20 switches that can be 1, 10, or 40GbE devices, and it allows IT organizations to manage those numerous, disparate
switches as a single logical device, utilizing a “flat” architecture design to support any-to-any connectivity that improves
performance and simplifies management.
• Zero Touch Provisioning simplifies deployment and gets new equipment up and running faster. Juniper provides a tool
that provisions standard configurations for switches and automates routine tasks that are typically done once, cutting the
time required for highly repetitive routine tasks from hours to minutes.
• High-performance networking for big data enables service providers seeking to find actionable insights from their data,
without performance becoming a bottleneck. The challenge is that up to petabytes of data can be generated for many
sources, and it needs to be moved around in the network and operated upon efficiently during the analysis process. One
design model for “big data analytics” is to build on high-performance hardware. This model allows for near-real-time
analysis of data from multiple sources by building a system that provides deterministic performance to ensure continuous
processing. The Juniper Networks QFabric®
family of products provides a high density of low-latency 10GbE ports best
suited for this environment. The QFabric architecture provides one large-scale dedicated system for processing multiple
large data streams with low loss and with deterministic performance. This is critical for processing analytics workloads
in near real time. In addition, any-to-any connectivity in this architecture means that nodes and storage can be placed
anywhere in the system, simplifying the deployment process.
Conclusion
Providers of hosted services are facing a time of unprecedented opportunities—and extraordinary challenges. Juniper
strives to facilitate the transformations that are necessary in a way that maximizes the opportunities with minimal
complexity, cost, and delay. Juniper’s commitment to delivering solutions and technologies that are “simple, open, and
smart” can pay dividends for forward-looking service providers, and we encourage you to closely evaluate Juniper’s
approach and offerings in your move to cloud-based service delivery.
For additional details about Juniper solutions and capabilities for data center transformation, please schedule an
appointment with your local Juniper account representative or visit www.juniper.net.
Simple, Open, Smart
Juniper’s commitment to delivering
solutions and technologies that are
“simple, open, and smart” can pay
dividends for forward-looking service
providers.

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