Juniper Networks enhances Apstra Software>
Data Center Solutions
Juniper Networks has introduced new enhancements to the Juniper Apstra platform that further simplify the deployment, troubleshooting and operations of data center networks. With the latest Apstra software release, Juniperâs enterprise, service provider and cloud provider customers can now extend Apstraâs intent-based networking capabilities to edge data centers with collapsed fabric topologies. Additionally, customers can utilize Apstra software to enable tighter Zero Trust security with new policy assurance and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) capabilities as well as simplified migration from legacy data centers with new Apstra professional services.
Apstraâs edge deployment model supports collapsed fabric topologies, commonly used in smaller, remote edge data centers. With this new model, customers utilize a simple platform to reliably manage intent-based networking and analytics â from small edge data centers to large, centralized sites â using a single source of truth. Extending Apstra to edge data centers allows organizations to benefit from intent-based networking and analytics in smaller deployments that donât need the scale of a large, centralized data center. Juniperâs data center offering, in conjunction with the companyâs Connected Security portfolio, delivers a wide range of protections for the Zero Trust data center, including workload protection, threat intelligence and prevention, unified policy management and network segmentation and isolation at scale. Apstra provides a multitude of security benefits for data center fabrics, including intent-based policy assurance for consistent and accurate policy enforcement and continuous validation across vendors, easy-to-use blueprints and templates for securing the data center and robust audit trails.
The latest version of Apstra provides policy assurance to enable granular enforcement where needed for greater scalability and efficiency, connectivity restrictions for multi-tenant environments and a wide array of RBAC and assurance. Apstra can detect security policy conflicts and duplicated rules, alerting users with actionable suggestions for resolution.
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