It is announced today, Lenovo and Juniper Networks will begin a global strategic partnership to leverage synergies in their respective product and technology portfolios to build the next generation of converged, hyper-converged, and hyper-scale data centre infrastructure solutions for enterprise and web-scale customers.

Together with extensive portfolio of x86 based servers and switches, Lenovo is at the forefront of the movement toward converged and software defined offerings. The partnership will enable customers to leverage Juniper’s strengths in networking and Lenovo’s recognised leadership in x86 server reliability and networking access to derive manageable, scalable, and simple infrastructure for their data centre

Gerry Smith, Lenovo executive vice president and chief operating officer, PC and Enterprise Business Group, said: “Lenovo is on a mission to become the market leader in data-centre solutions. We will continue to invest in the development and delivery of disruptive IT solutions to shape next-generation data centres. Our partnership with Juniper Networks provides Lenovo access to an industry leading portfolio of products that include Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions – essential for state- of-the-art data center offerings”

Rami Rahim, chief executive officer at Juniper Networks also commented on the partnership: “Partnering with Lenovo expands Juniper’s strategy to deliver a full-stack solution for a wide-range of data centres, from the mid-range enterprise to private cloud and to hyper-scale customers. We are excited about collaborating with Lenovo to leverage the full power of our IP-networking portfolio based on JunosOS and Contrail, in delivering the next generation of converged, hyper-converged, and hyper-scale solution to customers in China and globally.”