Cloud Computing: IBM Forms Partnership With Juniper on Data-Networking Analysis

February 25, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author: Alex Barinka.

International Business Machines Corp. formed a partnership with Juniper Networks Inc. to create networks with built-in analytics, harnessing big data to improve mobile and other applications.

IBM and Juniper will design and sell tools to help businesses analyze information, update operations, reduce costs and improve how applications run, according to a statement Tuesday. This could involve customizing experiences for watching videos, running business apps or managing Web-connected devices…

The two companies are under pressure to boost the appeal for their products by forging partnerships as a surge of newer competitors has arisen in enterprise technology. Sales at IBM and Sunnyvale, California-based Juniper fell last year, prompting both stocks to decline in 2014…

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