Over the past 30 years, there has been a remarkable amount of transformation in both technology and business. Looking back to pre-2000, 1GHz of memory in a PC was newsworthy, laptops were still the exception, and connecting to the internet carried with it a series of beeps and boops and squealing sounds as you dialed into the full power of 56k goodness.
Since then, there have been so many major movements that forever changed the technology landscape and helped shape my professional experience working at companies like IBM, NetApp, and Palo Alto. Dotcom, e-commerce, social media, big data, cloud computing, mobile. And now, AI has arguably become the most transformative movement in technology today (if not ever) and it’s growing at a truly explosive pace. That’s what brought me to Juniper Networks, an organization with the vision of using this rapidly evolving machine intelligence and network automation to forge a new era of opportunity and assured exceptional experiences.
When I joined Juniper Networks less than a year ago, Al and Machine Learning were just becoming a focus for the rest of the networking world. But Juniper spent the last nine years deeply integrating AI into everything we do. And our leadership in AI supports both the development of AI applications by our customers in the data center and the automated networks they need to deliver scalability, simplicity and rich user experiences to their end users.
Imagine a network capable of autonomously detecting and resolving problems with no end users ever being impacted. A world with no network trouble tickets, no network outages, no downtime or performance issues, and minimal human intervention. How will we get there? With Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform, the industry’s first platform purpose-built to assure the best operator and end-user experiences.
This platform represents a huge leap forward for AI in networking environments, but it also represents the quickest and most effective way to deploy high-performing AI training and inference networks. Whether leveraging cutting-edge AI for your network or building the optimal network to build your own AI applications, Juniper delivers the industry’s only true AIOps with unparalleled assurance in a common cloud, end-to-end across the entire network.
Let me reiterate here, AI-native is not AI hype, we’ve been building this for nine years and our customers are benefitting from its very real capabilities right now. And while our ultimate vision of the 100% elimination of networking-related trouble tickets might seem lofty, the reality is that we’re already delivering game-changing and quantifiable real-world outcomes right now. ServiceNow is reporting a 90% elimination of network-related trouble tickets, 50% faster deployment of full-stack wired, wireless, and SD-WAN, and they’ve achieved an impressive 60% cost avoidance in network CapEx/OpEx spending. That’s just one example of the power of AI-native.
ServiceNow is also just one example of the many customers who will be sharing their insights at our live virtual event, AI Native NOW on March 6th (March 7th for APAC). AI-Native NOW is a rare gathering of industry thought leaders and AI luminaries, Juniper’s AI experts and specialists, and our most innovative customers from around the planet cutting through the noise and getting down to what really matters — defining, shaping, and being AI-native together.
We’ll also share live demos around all our latest announcements, you’ll have multiple opportunities to engage our speakers in a live Q&A, and we have a couple fun surprises planned along the way. You really don’t want to miss this free event.
So that’s one big reason I’m here at Juniper, the unlimited potential in a burgeoning technology that represents our collective future in so many ways. Join us March 6th (March 7th for APAC) to hear how AI-Native Networking can help you achieve increased agility, simplified automation, and the assurance you need for simpler operations, increased productivity and reliable performance at scale.
Register at this link now and we’ll see you in a couple weeks at Juniper’s live virtual AI-native event of the year.
