вЂњI would say 2022 is gonna be more about integrating existing acquisitions into Juniper,вЂќ as opposed to buying additional companies, he added. вЂњJuniper security focuses on partnerships right now in terms of extending Juniper security value into the cloud,вЂќ Friday said, referring to the current plan for the SASE security. However, the company still lacks core security functionality, which it plans to roll out over the next year both in the form of organic products and partnerships, Kate Adam, senior director of security product marketing at Juniper, told SDxCentral in an earlier interview. On top of the cloud-based AI services, Juniper continues moving security services to the cloud to build out its secure access service edge (SASE) architecture, Friday said.ДЇor the SASE networking component, Juniper already has a strong presence in the SD-WAN market, thanks to the acquisition of 128 Technologies last year. вЂњItвЂ™s hard for them to start from scratch and try to figure it out,вЂќ Friday claimed.

This puts legacy vendors like Cisco and Hewlett Packard EnterpriseвЂ™s Aruba at a disadvantage, he added. вЂњCloud AI were fundamentally architectural changes in networking вЂ¦ that required a blank sheet of startup paper.вЂќ вЂњCloud AI is a big differentiator for Juniper right now because we do have a clean foundation to work on,вЂќ Friday told SDxCentral. ItвЂ™s also focusing on partnerships to extend security into the cloud and exploring opportunities to deploy private cellular networks, Friday said in an interview with SDxCentral. Juniper has big plans to expand its cloud-based AI services. вЂњThis is a much easier way for people to get data in and out of a network.вЂќ вЂњThe next big transition is really going from dashboards to conversational interfaces as being another way of getting around the complexity of networks,вЂќ he explained.

To this end, Juniper invests in conversational interface technologies to вЂњget a virtual AI assistant to interact with the IT team on a par with the human.вЂќ вЂњThe question is how long does it take for an enterprise customer to trust a virtual AI assistant to join their team,вЂќ he asked. The next big challenge for the cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) market is trust, according to Bob Friday, CTO of Juniper NetworksвЂ™ AI-driven enterprise business.

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