Goodbye to Juniper

And, so the big fish eat the little fish, and so it goes on. This happened for our spin-outs, where Zonefox was acquired by Fortinet and Symphonic by Ping ID. I am sure that Cyacomb and MemCrypt will follow a similar track.

So, when it comes to innovation, it is often small and agile companies that can disrupt a market, but in the end, it is the companies that require these companies. It happened recently when Cisco acquired the cybersecurity punk Splunk. Now, it’s the turn of Juniper, and which stood up against Cisco Systems and won a significant part of the networking industry [here]:

It perhaps cuts-out another competitor in the network market.

Overall, the deal values Juniper at $14 billion, and fits into the edge-to-the-cloud market. The acquisition especially focuses on the usage of AI to manage complex workloads, along with enhanced security implementations.

I like Juniper configurations as they feel more like an operating system than Cisco commands. In fact, I think there’s a better structure to the commands. Here is an example of setting the IP address on a Juniper device (for lo0, em0 and em1) [here]:

root@> configure

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