How many IT people does it take to manage a network?
“The more you add Junos to your network environment, the more you free up your staff to do the work you really want them to be doing.”
In the current economic environment, any attempt to upgrade or rethink an organization’s network infrastructure is going to come under intense scrutiny. As well it should. The aggregate costs—of both action and inaction—need to be studied and evaluated before an informed decision can be made.
For many organizations today, Junos presents a strong argument from both a performance and a TCO standpoint.
If you’re a typical organization running a solution in a traditional architecture, you’re probably coming up against several issues. Increases in network demand are straining the system faster than you’re able to add boxes. Interoperability issues—between third-party vendors, and even among your own devices—are leading to maintenance and downtime issues. And keeping your training current across the staff is time-consuming and expensive.
Hidden in that scenario is the steepest cost of all. Your IT people (and your IT budget) are entirely consumed with keeping things running, not with innovation.
Because Junos is the first unified network operating system with an open and secure API, it offers a powerful alternative to that all-too-typical story. Training costs are minimized because there is one version to learn, not a dozen. Interoperability issues are eliminated, reducing maintenance and testing demands. Even more fundamentally, the simplified architecture and increased performance of a Junos solution means that fewer devices are doing more work. You eliminate network complexity, identified by Forrester Consulting as an important factor in lowering network operations costs and simplifying overall network operations.1
And, since Junos works across the entire network portfolio, the software can automatically perform routine tasks that would have to be executed manually in a legacy system. The more you add Junos to your network environment, the more you free up your staff to do the work you really want them to be doing—thinking about your business. These minds are your biggest cost and most valuable asset; getting them back on-line is the biggest boon you can give your company.
The new network is here. And it’s making management simple.
1 Forrester Consulting Report: A Single Network OS – Maximizing Operational Efficiency And Flexibility
