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Techday NZ
09-07-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Juniper named Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for fifth year
Juniper Networks has been positioned as a Leader in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, achieving this status for the fifth consecutive time. In the new report, Gartner also placed Juniper furthest for "Completeness of Vision" and highest for "Ability to Execute" for the fourth consecutive edition of the annual assessment. The criteria for these categories account for a broad range of factors, including market understanding, innovation, sales and marketing strategies, product strategy, market responsiveness, and execution within the rapidly evolving enterprise network market. Recognition by Gartner According to Gartner, "A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market's competitors. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Magic Quadrant helps you quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner's market view. A Magic Quadrant provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers, in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct." This consistent recognition in the Magic Quadrant, a widely referenced industry benchmark, reflects Juniper's ongoing activity in the enterprise networking sector, and the strategic importance of artificial intelligence for network operations, or AIOps, to businesses with complex wired and wireless infrastructure needs. Juniper's approach to AI-native networking "AI for networking operations (AIOps) has become the strategic focus for enterprises to prepare their wired and wireless infrastructure for the future," said Sudheer Matta, SVP, Campus & Branch, Juniper Networks. "With over a decade of AI innovation under our belt, Juniper delivers holistic, self-driving networking solutions featuring digital experience twins with agentic AI and Large Experience Models (LEMs) that deliver exceptional user experiences and simplified IT operations. We believe that being named a Leader by Gartner for the fifth time in a row underscores the advantages of our true AI-native platform with self-driving operations and provides validation for any enterprise looking for a wired/wireless infrastructure that is purpose-built for the modern AI era." Juniper's Mist platform and Marvis AI engine underpin this approach, providing automated, cloud-managed networking solutions and self-driving operations for enterprise customers. The company reports ongoing market momentum, with orders related to the Mist platform growing by over 40 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025. These results reflect increasing customer interest in AI-native architectures to manage complex network environments and improve user experiences. Enterprise adoption and customer case studies Juniper's AI-native networking technology has been adopted by organisations with substantial distributed operations. ALDI SOUTH Group, one of the world's largest grocery retailers operating more than 7,000 stores, is highlighted as an example of how enterprises are leveraging the vendor's solutions for digital transformation across their networks. "As one of the world's largest grocery retailers with over 7,000 stores worldwide, the ALDI SOUTH Group continuously explores new ways to streamline operations, enhance in-store experiences, and offer customers high-quality products at unbeatable prices. To support this objective, Juniper provides ALDI with a campus network which supports secure, reliable connectivity across supply chain operations, point-of-sale systems, and digital in-store experiences. ALDI selected Juniper for their next-generation network transformation, AI-native, cloud-native architecture. The EX4000 access switch is tailor-made for distributed retail enterprise deployments, Mist's cloud-scale NAC simplifies secure access at massive scale, and Juniper's Wi-Fi 6E delivers seamless wireless performance focused on user experience — all driven by the Mist platform." Jens Radeck, IT Manager for ALDI International Services, confirmed the scale and requirements of ALDI's transformation efforts, indicating that secure, scalable connectivity underpinned by Juniper's architecture is a core priority for supporting operational efficiency in its global business. Broader recognition and achievements Juniper's strategy of extending Marvis AI capabilities across the Mist platform has contributed to a cascade of recognitions in industry research, including being named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Switching. The ongoing expansion of AI functionality in enterprise network management and data centre operations has been central to Juniper's recent evaluations by analysts. The Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluations are based on thorough, structured research methodologies and are regularly referenced by organisations making technology purchasing decisions in high-growth markets where vendor differentiation is marked. Juniper's repeated positioning reflects both analyst and market perspectives on the company's execution and evolving strategies in the competitive networking sector.
Business Upturn
01-07-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
Juniper Networks' Marvis® AI Assistant Wins 2025 Artificial Intelligence Breakthrough Award
LOS ANGELES, July 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AI Breakthrough , a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market, today announced that Juniper Networks , a leader in secure, AI-native networking, has been selected as winner of the 'Virtual Agent Solution of the Year' award in the 8th annual AI Breakthrough Awards program. The 2025 AI Breakthrough Award recognizes the breakthrough innovation of Marvis AI Assistant, part of Juniper's Mist™ AI-native networking platform. Marvis AI Assistant is a Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) that continuously learns from network devices and applications, ingesting data to provide IT teams with seamless end-to-end networking assurance, automated troubleshooting, deeper insights, and autonomous self-driving capabilities. The Marvis AI Assistant streamlines Day 2 operations and optimizes the client-to-cloud user experiences across wireless access, wired access, SD-WAN, and WAN routing domains. Marvis AI Assistant offers a GenAI conversational interface for troubleshooting and Marvis Actions for assisted and full self-driving Day 2 operations. Marvis is simple to use and helps network managers detect, diagnose and resolve network issues proactively, refining decision-making to ensure peak performance without manual intervention. Beyond automation, its AI-native capabilities provide predictive analytics and seamless integration across wireless, wired, WAN and data center infrastructures. 'Marvis AI Assistant is the result of our commitment to years of research, innovation and vision. The result is changing the way networks are designed, deployed and operated. Juniper is honored to receive 'Virtual Agent Solution of the Year' from AI Breakthrough for Marvis,' said Sudheer Matta, SVP, Product Management, Campus & Branch, of Juniper Networks. 'Marvis AI Assistant is a foundational pillar in our quest to delivering a self-driving network. Our customers report lower operational expenditure, a substantive reduction in network trouble tickets, as well as reduced IT onsite visits and network incident resolution times.' The AI Breakthrough Awards shine a spotlight on the boldest innovators and most impactful technologies leading the charge in AI across a comprehensive set of categories, including Generative AI, Computer Vision, AIOps, Agentic AI, Robotics, Natural Language Processing, industry-specific AI applications, and many more. This year's program attracted more than 5,000 nominations from over 20 different countries throughout the world, underscoring the explosive growth and global importance of AI as a defining technology of the 21st century. 'For the first time, a single AI network assistant provides end-to-end visibility and assurance across all enterprise domains, revolutionizing how IT teams interact with networks,' said Steve Johansson, managing director, AI Breakthrough. 'With the Marvis AI Assistant from Juniper Networks, organizations receive a comprehensive understanding of their specific network environment, empowering them to address a wide range of network challenges with increased speed, accuracy and efficacy. We are thrilled to recognize the entire Juniper Networks team for its well-deserved 2025 AI Breakthrough Award win.' New add-ons include the industry-first Marvis Minis, digital experience twins that simulate user connections to validate network configurations across the client to cloud. The tool detects network issues before end-user experiences are impacted and prevents downtime as well as performance degradation. In addition, the recent Marvis AI Assistant for Data Center integrates with Juniper Apstra™ Intent-Based Networking to enable proactive data center actions and simplified knowledge base queries that detect and mitigate issues proactively. About AI Breakthrough Part of Tech Breakthrough , a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the AI Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in Artificial Intelligence technologies, services, companies and products. The AI Breakthrough Awards provide public recognition for the achievements of AI companies and products in categories including Generative AI, Machine Learning, AI Platforms, Robotics, Business Intelligence, AI Hardware, Computer Vision and more. For more information visit . Tech Breakthrough LLC does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our recognition programs, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with award designations. Tech Breakthrough LLC recognition consists of the opinions of the Tech Breakthrough LLC organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Tech Breakthrough LLC disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this recognition program, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same. Ahmedabad Plane Crash
Business Wire
30-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Juniper Networks Positioned Furthest in 'Completeness of Vision' and Highest for 'Ability to Execute' in 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure by Gartner® for Fourth Consecutive Time
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Juniper Networks, (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-native networks, has announced that in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, for the fourth consecutive time, Gartner Inc. has positioned it furthest in ' Completeness of Vision ' and highest for ' Ability to Execute '. In this latest Magic Quadrant, Gartner has also named Juniper a Leader for the fifth consecutive time. Completeness of Vision is evaluated on criteria such as market understanding, marketing and sales strategy, offering (product) strategy, innovation etc. Ability to Execute criteria includes product or service, market responsiveness/record, marketing execution, etc. As Gartner explains, 'A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market's competitors. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Magic Quadrant helps you quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner's market view. A Magic Quadrant provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers, in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct.' 'AI for networking operations (AIOps) has become the strategic focus for enterprises to prepare their wired and wireless infrastructure for the future,' said Sudheer Matta, SVP, Campus & Branch, Juniper Networks. 'With over a decade of AI innovation under our belt, Juniper delivers holistic, self-driving networking solutions featuring digital experience twins with agentic AI and Large Experience Models (LEMs) that deliver exceptional user experiences and simplified IT operations. We believe that being named a Leader by Gartner for the fifth time in a row underscores the advantages of our true AI-native platform with self-driving operations and provides validation for any enterprise looking for a wired/wireless infrastructure that is purpose-built for the modern AI era.' The company believes continued customer traction for its Mist AI-native networking platform and the Marvis® AI engine has been the defining factor in accelerating sales momentum in the enterprise sector with orders for Mist and other products attached to the Mist cloud growing more than 40 percent year-over-year in Q1 2025. 'As one of the world's largest grocery retailers with over 7,000 stores worldwide, the ALDI SOUTH Group continuously explores new ways to streamline operations, enhance in-store experiences, and offer customers high-quality products at unbeatable prices. To support this objective, Juniper provides ALDI with a campus network which supports secure, reliable connectivity across supply chain operations, point-of-sale systems and digital in-store experiences. ALDI selected Juniper for their next-generation network transformation, AI-native, cloud-native architecture. The EX4000 access switch is tailor-made for distributed retail enterprise deployments, Mist's cloud-scale NAC simplifies secure access at massive scale, and Juniper's Wi-Fi 6E delivers seamless wireless performance focused on user experience — all driven by the Mist platform.' - Jens Radeck, IT Manager, ALDI International Services SE & Co. oHG We feel amplifying the impact of its strategy to extend Marvis AI across the Mist AI-native networking platform, Juniper was also recently recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching, published on March 31, 2025. Gartner Disclaimer Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure, Mike Leibovitz, Christian Canales, Nauman Raja, Tim Zimmerman, June 25, 2025 and Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Center Switching, Andrew Lerner, Simon Richard, et al, March 31, 2025 Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's Research & Advisory organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Juniper Networks is recognized as Juniper Networks in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure report. About Juniper Networks Juniper Networks is leading the convergence of AI and networking. Mist™, Juniper's AI-native networking platform is purpose-built to run AI workloads and simplify IT operations, assuring exceptional secure user and application experiences—from the edge, to the data center, to the cloud. Additional information can be found at X, LinkedIn and Facebook. Juniper Networks, the Juniper Networks logo, Juniper, Junos, and other trademarks listed here are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries. 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Channel Post MEA
15-05-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Juniper Delivers Expanded Client-to-Cloud Insights and Self-Driving Network Operations
Juniper Networks announced key innovations in the Mist AI-native networking platform , bringing expanded insight and assurance to wired , wireless and WAN customers and partners. Enhanced Marvis Minis extends digital experience twinning across the global WAN, reaching into both public and private cloud environments and applications. A new Marvis Actions self-driving dashboard simplifies network operations by seamlessly identifying and resolving network issues and continuously optimizing network experience and performance, without manual operator intervention, and an enhanced Marvis mobile client expands Mist's industry-leading AI-native Operations (AIOps) to end user devices. With these latest innovations in Mist, Juniper continues to lead the industry in AIOps from client-to-cloud, giving operators superior visibility and control of user experiences. 'The Mist AI-native networking platform was purpose-built to converge AI and networking for exceptional operator and end user experiences,' said Sudheer Matta, Senior Vice President, Products, Campus and Branch, Juniper Networks. 'These enhancements shift the paradigm from traditional observability to an AI-native model for truly understanding user experience that's actionable at scale. We think of the new Marvis Minis as a million Minis—digital experience twins working in unison to proactively identify, learn and act before issues impact the user. With Marvis Minis, Juniper continues to deliver state-of-the-art automation, insight and assurance—setting the stage for a foundational shift to agentic AI in the networking industry.' Client-to-cloud experience twinning: The next frontier for Marvis Minis With this enhancement, Marvis Minis digital experience twinning capabilities now proactively analyze user experiences end-to-end, from client-to-cloud to baseline and pinpoint exactly where application performance may be suffering. Marvis Minis now offers new service level expectations (SLEs) to deliver increased visibility into application performance across various levels, such as at site, across sites, regions, within an ISP, making troubleshooting faster and more efficient. With end-to-end monitoring, Marvis Minis now provides a comprehensive solution for identifying and resolving issues before they impact end user experience. Unlike traditional observability tools that require agents, sensors or customer-side deployment, Marvis Minis offers a fully seamless experience powered by AI. Marvis Actions dashboard: Visualizes and controls self-driving network operations Aligned with Juniper's vision of self-driving networks, Marvis AI Assistant proactively resolves network issues like VLAN misconfigurations and network loops, optimizes Radio Resource Management (RRM) and automates routine tasks such as policy updates firmware compliance, increasing overall efficiency. The new Marvis Actions dashboard view gives full control over when and how these self-driving network operations are enabled. It also provides a detailed history of all proactive actions, whether fully self-driving or assisted, along with insights into how Marvis AI Assistant identified and resolved each issue, empowering customers to manage their network on their terms. Marvis Client: Empowering IT teams with client-side data Marvis Client , an enhanced Marvis AI Assistant extension, uses client-side telemetry from Android, Windows and macOS devices to provide deeper insights into user experiences. Rich data such as device type, operating system, radio hardware, firmware and connectivity metrics are transmitted in near real-time to the Mist cloud, where Marvis AI Assistant processes it to generate actionable insights. When these insights are further complemented by data collected from Juniper Access Points (AP), routers, switches and firewalls, IT teams can proactively address performance issues, improve troubleshooting and enable a consistently high-quality user experience. All of this is achieved without the need for additional software or hardware sensors, thereby minimizing cost and complexity and maximizing value. 0 0
Channel Post MEA
09-05-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Juniper Networks Expands AI-Native Networking Platform Mist With New Insights And Assurance
Juniper Networks has announced key innovations in the Mist AI-native networking platform that bring expanded insight and assurance to wired, wireless and WAN customers and partners. Enhanced Marvis Minis extends digital experience twinning across the global WAN, reaching into both public and private cloud environments and applications. A new Marvis Actions self-driving dashboard simplifies network operations by seamlessly identifying and resolving network issues and continuously optimizing network experience and performance, without manual operator intervention, and an enhanced Marvis mobile client expands Mist's industry-leading AI-native Operations (AIOps) to end user devices. With these latest innovations in Mist, Juniper continues to lead the industry in AIOps from client-to-cloud, giving operators superior visibility and control of user experiences. 'The Mist AI-native networking platform was purpose-built to converge AI and networking for exceptional operator and end user experiences,' said Sudheer Matta, Senior Vice President, Products, Campus and Branch, Juniper Networks. 'These enhancements shift the paradigm from traditional observability to an AI-native model for truly understanding user experience that's actionable at scale. We think of the new Marvis Minis as a million Minis—digital experience twins working in unison to proactively identify, learn and act before issues impact the user. With Marvis Minis, Juniper continues to deliver state-of-the-art automation, insight and assurance—setting the stage for a foundational shift to agentic AI in the networking industry.' Client-to-cloud experience twinning: The next frontier for Marvis Minis With this enhancement, Marvis Minis digital experience twinning capabilities now proactively analyze user experiences end-to-end, from client-to-cloud to baseline and pinpoint exactly where application performance may be suffering. Marvis Minis now offers new service level expectations (SLEs) to deliver increased visibility into application performance across various levels, such as at site, across sites, regions, within an ISP, making troubleshooting faster and more efficient. With end-to-end monitoring, Marvis Minis now provides a comprehensive solution for identifying and resolving issues before they impact end user experience. Unlike traditional observability tools that require agents, sensors or customer-side deployment, Marvis Minis offers a fully seamless experience powered by AI. 'Marvis Minis has been a game changer for us by providing precise, proactive alerts about site issues. Through hourly synthetic tests on our network systems, we identify problems before customers arrive, giving us enough time to address and resolve them. By pinpointing the exact areas causing issues, we spend much less time and effort troubleshooting,' said Andy Lorenc, Network Engineer, Robert Half. 'That's why we're so excited about the addition of client-to-cloud and the fact that we now have complete real-time visibility and a unified view across devices, the network, and applications. Troubleshooting is only getting easier—another significant benefit of having Marvis Minis fully integrated into Mist and a part of our existing Marvis subscription with ever expanding features and toolsets that bring more value to existing investment.' Marvis Actions dashboard: Visualizes and controls self-driving network operations Aligned with Juniper's vision of self-driving networks, Marvis AI Assistant proactively resolves network issues like VLAN misconfigurations and network loops, optimizes Radio Resource Management (RRM) and automates routine tasks such as policy updates firmware compliance, increasing overall efficiency. The new Marvis Actions dashboard view gives full control over when and how these self-driving network operations are enabled. It also provides a detailed history of all proactive actions, whether fully self-driving or assisted, along with insights into how Marvis AI Assistant identified and resolved each issue, empowering customers to manage their network on their terms. Marvis Client: Empowering IT teams with client-side data Marvis Client, an enhanced Marvis AI Assistant extension, uses client-side telemetry from Android®, Windows® and macOS devices to provide deeper insights into user experiences. Rich data such as device type, operating system, radio hardware, firmware and connectivity metrics are transmitted in near real-time to the Mist cloud, where Marvis AI Assistant processes it to generate actionable insights. When these insights are further complemented by data collected from Juniper Access Points (AP), routers, switches and firewalls, IT teams can proactively address performance issues, improve troubleshooting and enable a consistently high-quality user experience. All of this is achieved without the need for additional software or hardware sensors, thereby minimizing cost and complexity and maximizing value. 'To overcome the increased complexity of highly distributed networks, organizations need to adopt self-driving networks and agentic AI technologies. These advances will enable increased operational efficiency, enhanced customer experiences and better business insights. It all starts with a comprehensive, granular understanding of the network, users and applications environment,' said Bob Laliberte, Principal Analyst, theCUBE Research. 'By leveraging an innovative and established AI-native networking platform, Juniper continues to raise the bar for end-to-end visibility, and proactive control in modern network environments.'
