Are data centers becoming less relevant? ZKast with Mike Bushong Juniper of Juniper Networks
The data center is dead. Long live the data center.
Are data centers becoming less relevant as more applications move to the cloud? Juniper’s Michael Bushong says no and explains why in this must-watch ZKast with Zeus Kerravala.
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The changing role of the data center and what it means in terms of edge and cloud
Why data centers are having a bit of a renaissance right now, according to Michael
Why it’s harder for larger enterprises to move everything to public cloud
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0:00 [Music]
0:05 welcome to zcast everybody i'm zscaravel
0:08 from zk research as always i'm your host
0:10 i'm joined today by
0:12 mike bushong vp of cloud ready data
0:14 center at juniper networks mike why
0:16 don't you say hi to everybody
0:18 hey thanks for having me today and hello
0:20 everyone out there
0:21 yeah so we're gonna be talking uh data
0:23 center which uh you know it's a pretty
0:25 exciting topic there's always lots of
0:27 stuff going on in that area before we
0:29 get started though i do want to give a
0:30 shout out to e-week my media partner all
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0:37 e-week uh mike now
0:39 you work and live and eat and everything
0:41 in data centers um what's going on with
0:44 data centers right we've had this
0:46 massive
0:47 number of people work from home
0:49 we've moved more and more applications
0:50 to the cloud and so i think there's some
0:52 conventional wisdom out there that data
0:55 centers are becoming less relevant but
0:56 uh you know tell us why that's not the
0:59 case
1:00 yeah i think the the whole data center
1:02 thing um when cloud came in right the
1:04 whole idea was the cloud is going to
1:06 wipe through and take out all of the
1:07 data centers that everything essentially
1:09 moves to amazon
1:11 microsoft google oracle whoever
1:13 i just that hasn't been true right i
1:15 think what most people are looking at is
1:17 kind of these hybrid environments
1:19 certainly workloads are moving to the
1:20 cloud i don't want to say that i'm like
1:22 a one of the people who says that cloud
1:24 isn't happening it's absolutely
1:26 happening
1:27 but i think what's what's really going
1:29 on is there's a bit of a bifurcation in
1:30 the market um
1:32 for companies that are maybe at the
1:34 lower end they could they might look at
1:35 cloud first or cloud only because their
1:37 needs are you know fairly
1:39 constrained right they've got a kind of
1:41 a well understood set of applications
1:43 for everybody else they've got kind of a
1:45 bunch of different applications and the
1:46 whole idea that merely lifting and
1:48 shifting an application from on-prem
1:50 into the cloud was going to yield some
1:52 huge financial impact that hasn't really
1:55 happened and so it's left people kind of
1:57 in this environment where they've got
1:58 you know the you know what they've got
2:00 on prem they've got you know new
2:01 emerging you know let's say sas
2:03 workloads and they're leveraging cloud
2:05 and what this leads to is not just you
2:07 know sort of these hybrid environments
2:08 but but hybrid and multi environments
2:10 right on-prem public public the net of
2:13 all of that is that you know data center
2:15 all of a sudden is no longer about the
2:17 four walls that you're kind of managing
2:18 and the equipment that you have in it
2:20 it's kind of this operational domain
2:22 this administrative domain that extends
2:24 out across different different you know
2:26 areas in the network and then with all
2:27 of that
2:28 that makes data center hot again because
2:30 it's all about data center operations i
2:32 think we're actually going through a bit
2:33 of a data center renaissance frankly and
2:36 then you mentioned the work from home
2:37 thing right you get more people
2:39 consuming more applications trying to do
2:41 more things in a distributed way it's
2:44 like that's actually built up a bunch of
2:46 demand for the services that are being
2:48 offered at a data center so it's not
2:50 just that operations and innovation is
2:52 alive it's that kind of the current
2:54 environment that we find ourselves in
2:55 it's really stimulating growth in this
2:57 overall space then we see that when you
2:59 start looking at you know kind of how
3:00 companies are doing who are in this this
3:02 data center proper area
3:04 i like what you framed it up because
3:06 data center maybe is now become
3:09 a term to describe operations versus a
3:12 physical place uh but i do think that
3:14 you know that uh you know i think we
3:16 analysts and you know i write for a lot
3:18 of public media tend to over swing the
3:21 pendulum sometimes we say everything's
3:23 moving to the cloud or everything's
3:24 moving mobile or whatever and that's
3:26 just not true um i do i will say though
3:29 that every business i talk to wants a
3:31 cloud model that doesn't necessarily
3:34 mean public cloud in fact my research
3:36 shows that 95 of companies will adopt a
3:40 hybrid cloud there are just certain
3:41 scenarios where things will run and by
3:44 the way the 95 numbers enterprises so i
3:46 do think you're right small businesses
3:47 can go all cloud but when you talk about
3:50 larger enterprise they have specific
3:51 workflows data sovereignty issues they
3:53 got regulatory issues compliance issues
3:56 and you just can't move everything to
3:58 uh the
3:59 public cloud in fact somebody asked me
4:00 the other day do i see a day where
4:03 everything's in public cloud and my
4:05 answer was
4:06 maybe but i'll long be retired so i
4:08 don't care
4:09 when that happens now the other big
4:11 disruptor in data centers has been this
4:14 thing that we call edge and this has
4:16 given rise to what i call
4:18 uh and gardeners in terms of distributed
4:21 cloud which describes an operating model
4:23 to your point
4:25 where you have one
4:27 logical cloud environment that spans
4:29 public clouds private clouds and edge
4:31 locations and that's fundamentally
4:33 different because historically what you
4:34 had with data centers well they were
4:36 centralized centers of data
4:39 right but now you've got these
4:40 distributed environments so can you you
4:42 talk a little bit about edge and how
4:44 that's really evolved the role of the
4:45 network and data centers
4:47 um yeah so if we take cloud just
4:49 generally i mean cloud is is you know i
4:51 think it's really an operational
4:52 construct um it's how do you how do you
4:55 manage things the whole idea of moving
4:56 to different consumption models and
4:59 and you know being able to spin up
5:00 applications when and where you need we
5:02 look at you know the kind of classic
5:04 cloud it was the idea that we would
5:05 bring users and data to the application
5:08 right things were hosted centrally and
5:09 then you know you could sort of reroute
5:11 everything into these central locations
5:13 what we see with distributed edge is the
5:15 kind of changing that a little bit let's
5:16 take the applications let's take the
5:18 data and push it closer to the users
5:20 in some cases it could be because
5:22 there's you know performance
5:23 requirements or latency requirements it
5:25 could be
5:26 um you know things like 5g are actually
5:28 changing the whole expectation of user
5:30 experience and and what users are
5:32 demanding and so it's no longer
5:33 sufficient to just route everything
5:35 through these national data centers what
5:37 you've got to do is essentially push the
5:38 data centers out closer to the users
5:41 now this is actually not that different
5:43 and i'll say spiritually right
5:44 architecture it's very different but
5:46 spiritually it's similar to this whole
5:47 idea of scale out right instead of
5:49 having you know these big massive things
5:51 what i want to do is create smaller
5:53 components and pull them and sort of
5:54 distribute the load across a larger
5:56 number of elements
5:58 when we do that right we trade off the
6:01 performance piece um
6:03 we get performance advantages but what
6:05 we pick up the cost of that is
6:06 essentially you know distributed
6:08 operations it's all the administrative
6:10 things that you have to do to manage
6:11 these devices well it's true in data
6:13 center as well if i move away from a
6:15 large national data center and i replace
6:17 that with dozens
6:19 you know maybe hundreds of
6:21 of you know distributed data centers and
6:23 this distributed edge what i pick up is
6:25 an operational burden and so what we see
6:26 with with the whole move to distributed
6:28 edge is it's a it's a shift and it's
6:30 emphasizing once again the operational
6:33 tenants of cloud which brings us back to
6:35 kind of the you know the opening
6:37 comments around cloud it's how do i get
6:39 cloud-like operations so i can reliably
6:41 and repeatably deploy applications
6:44 to preserve a consistent user experience
6:47 when my applications and the domains
6:49 over which i have to manage them are
6:51 distributed in all kinds of different
6:53 physical locations
6:54 um with a you know diversity of
6:56 connectivity a diversity of applications
6:58 like that's really the game in this
7:00 whole distributed edge space yeah in
7:02 fact i would argue when you talk about
7:04 operations a lot of businesses
7:06 haven't really moved to true cloud
7:09 operations i think when you think about
7:11 if i pick up a legacy workload and i do
7:13 a lift and shift and public cloud to a
7:14 public cloud i maybe change the location
7:17 of that but i'm not really changing the
7:19 way i operate right so i don't get the
7:21 benefit of the scale out and things like
7:23 that and so this
7:24 you know now what i actually think is
7:26 we're actually moving to an era where we
7:29 do have cloud operations and that's
7:30 giving rise to true multi-cloud and i
7:32 use the word true multi-cloud because
7:34 historically when people did multi-cloud
7:36 they were using multiple centralized
7:38 clouds but to me that's not the same as
7:40 multi-cloud where i could have one
7:42 operational construct across
7:44 all my clouds so uh you know i do think
7:47 the environment does become
7:50 um
7:51 more you know a little more you know
7:53 complicated here and so that certainly
7:54 changed the role um you know of
7:56 operations and security and things now
7:58 um you recently made another a number of
8:01 announcements right uh
8:03 you know the uh through uh uh the
8:05 abstract position that that juniper made
8:07 can you can you just walk us through
8:09 those
8:10 uh yeah so i mean just as a brief
8:12 reminder of what abstra does right so
8:14 this whole idea of abstract is intent
8:16 based networking um it's the idea that
8:18 rather than working configuration
8:19 statement by configuration statement you
8:21 ought to be able to declare
8:23 top down here's what i want my my data
8:25 center to do
8:27 so we did we took that intent model and
8:28 we've extended it actually to the edge
8:30 so we've said that you know there are
8:32 architectures that are different than
8:35 these centralized data centers right
8:37 typically called collapsed fabrics where
8:38 you you don't necessarily need a whole
8:40 bunch of devices use a couple of access
8:42 switches maybe some some tours
8:44 um and what we're doing then is
8:46 essentially extending the benefits of
8:47 intent-based networking to those types
8:49 of of deployments this is big right as
8:52 we start thinking about you know smaller
8:53 data centers uh use cases like iot
8:57 we start looking at uh things like telco
8:59 cloud where you've got you know let's
9:01 say carriers that are you know
9:02 distributing their data centers out in
9:04 support of their 5g services
9:06 there's a whole different kind of
9:08 collection of things that we can cover
9:10 within that that basic space um that's
9:13 that's a big part of this overall
9:14 announcement right extending the
9:15 goodness of abstract to new deployments
9:18 um beyond that we did some stuff on the
9:20 security side which we can talk about in
9:21 a bit um and then
9:24 of course you know when you pick up
9:25 something like intent based networking
9:26 it's really is a different operating
9:28 model which raises a question especially
9:30 like in your enterprise clients right it
9:31 raises a basic question you know there's
9:33 this thing that i want that is different
9:35 than what i have
9:36 how do i get there
9:38 and so we put together some migration
9:39 services that are really aimed at how do
9:41 we transition from environments as we
9:43 know it today to environments as as we
9:45 want them tomorrow
9:47 yeah i wouldn't drill down the security
9:49 side because juniper obviously has a
9:50 very big
9:51 uh security business as well you know
9:53 when you when you think of a traditional
9:55 data center it was a closed environment
9:58 you could control a lot of things uh
10:00 just by locking down
10:02 the walls right so now that we're moving
10:04 more and more things to the edge uh
10:06 we're using public clouds we're kind of
10:08 mixing public and private um
10:11 that that really makes curing a lot more
10:13 complicated so can you you talk about
10:15 those challenges and then tell me what
10:17 you know how juniper's addressing those
10:19 sure i mean you just spelled it out if
10:21 i've got
10:23 different types of users accessing
10:25 different types of applications all run
10:27 in different types of data centers that
10:30 are all supported by different types of
10:31 vendor equipment and different types of
10:33 vendor software
10:35 like what's the problem
10:36 um i mean that like like that's that
10:38 should be easy
10:40 it should be it sounds amazing right
10:41 like
10:42 what that sounds like to me by the way
10:43 is job security so for all of you out
10:45 there like that's you know good good
10:47 stuff
10:48 um
10:49 i think the real challenge is you know
10:51 and this is when you talk about true
10:52 multi-cloud i mean you mentioned it it's
10:54 the idea that i want uniform operations
10:56 and i want diverse underlying you know i
10:59 guess infrastructure
11:01 what apps just trying to do is provide
11:03 unified operations i want to do things
11:05 in a common way regardless of
11:08 the underlying infrastructure regardless
11:10 of the vendor regardless of the the
11:12 particular domain type regardless of the
11:14 underlying you know users and
11:15 applications whatever let me provide
11:17 kind of a consistent way of applying
11:19 policy across this diverse environment
11:21 what we're doing in this particular
11:22 release is we're taking this idea of
11:25 group-based policy the idea that we have
11:27 policy and control that's applied at
11:29 like a tenant or an application level
11:31 and then we can and essentially what
11:32 apps does is it abstracts that policy
11:34 from the underlying devices
11:36 then we go and apply that policy across
11:38 whichever devices are are required in
11:40 order to support that that overall
11:42 policy structure and then
11:44 we'll validate that the policy that's
11:46 deployed is essentially um working as
11:49 intended and the way we do that right so
11:52 so underpinning this idea of intent this
11:54 this declarative model this way of
11:56 pushing let's say configuration and
11:58 state information into devices i'm
12:00 underpinning that we actually create a
12:02 model we say here's the the network as
12:05 it's intended and then we deploy a bunch
12:07 of sensors and we say here is the
12:09 network as deployed
12:11 and when the as intended and the
12:12 deployed match we give you a big green
12:14 light everything is good
12:16 when as deployed and um and as intended
12:20 uh do not match then we can flag that
12:22 there's a problem so let me give you
12:23 kind of an easy example
12:25 you pay you uh you create policy for a
12:27 particular application but of course
12:29 multiple applications run across these
12:32 different you know
12:33 on the uh the switches the data center
12:34 fabric what if somebody else makes a
12:37 different policy instruction that
12:40 overlaps with the policy for for
12:42 application a and application b what we
12:44 want to do is flag when there's
12:46 overlapping policy we want to be able to
12:47 tell you when something is different
12:49 than as intended so that when you get in
12:51 this complex environment of you know
12:53 many to many for everything we're trying
12:55 to do
12:56 let us tell you if there's if there's
12:58 conflicts so you can resolve that
13:00 conflict ahead of time the worst time to
13:02 to possibly find out that your policies
13:05 are not working as intended
13:07 is in the middle of your ransomware
13:08 attack
13:09 right so segmentation becomes a a key
13:13 mitigation you know activity when you
13:15 think about some of the security stuff
13:16 going on you can't afford to find out
13:18 that it's not going to work at the point
13:20 of at the point of attack at the point
13:22 that something's gone wrong what
13:23 aperture's doing is not just
13:24 provisioning it but telling you up front
13:26 you know is your policy assured is it
13:28 working the way you expect it to work
13:31 uh thanks for that answer mike uh i know
13:33 one of the big value propositions of
13:36 appstra
13:37 and there are other intent-based
13:38 solutions but i believe appstore is the
13:40 only real multi-vendor one so can you
13:43 can you talk a little bit about why and
13:45 how that's grown in importance obviously
13:47 you know everybody wants to be able to
13:48 choose the vendor they use but
13:50 i think historically haven't been able
13:52 to so what have you seen there from your
13:53 customers and how they've been
13:55 leveraging that
13:57 sure um i mean so yes the idea behind
14:00 intent based is that if we can work from
14:02 a declarative model over the top then
14:03 we're abstracted naturally from the
14:05 underlying devices this means that we
14:07 are in a very good architectural
14:08 position to support multi-vendor
14:11 why does that matter um look everybody
14:13 is these days talking about supply chain
14:16 if you want to um
14:18 if you want to be able to order devices
14:20 from vendor a or vendor b or vendor c
14:22 but your operations are sort of fixed
14:24 then you're in a position that you can't
14:26 you actually can't do that what app
14:27 store allows us to do is to say you know
14:29 here's my data center the way it's
14:30 constructed i don't care about the
14:32 underlying devices my teams are trained
14:34 my services are deployed applications
14:36 are deployed um
14:38 regardless of what the underlying
14:39 vendors are then depending on what the
14:42 lead times are then you can go and take
14:43 advantage of you know vendor a vendor b
14:45 vendor c
14:46 now look supply chain won't always be a
14:48 constraint right we we think that you
14:50 know that things will improve at some
14:51 point
14:52 but at that point then the question is
14:54 do you want your vendors to compete for
14:56 your business if you want economic
14:58 leverage for instance then keeping your
14:59 vendors competing for for incremental
15:01 capacity is a is a huge thing that that
15:04 gives you um flexibility right it could
15:06 be that they're competing based on
15:08 feature functionality it could be based
15:10 on you know price and performance but
15:12 this gives you the flexibility to make
15:13 the decisions that you need to make
15:15 um you know so you can avoid these you
15:17 know seven nine ten year type
15:19 engagements where you say like i'm
15:21 committed
15:23 longer than i'm going to be in the role
15:24 i'm committed to this particular vendor
15:26 what we're essentially doing is
15:27 unlocking that and we've seen huge
15:30 traction here i mean we have um we've
15:32 got folks who come and they say look you
15:34 know appreciate that juniper has
15:35 hardware however i've got cisco or
15:38 arista or dell or sonic or you know or
15:42 cumulus or juniper whatever i've got
15:44 different suppliers you know can you
15:46 solve my operational challenges
15:48 and we've got accounts today where it's
15:50 it's literally it's it's you know it's
15:52 pure software over the top
15:54 breathing additional life into an
15:56 existing investment which allows them to
15:57 get more out of what they've already
15:59 spent and then gives them a plausible
16:01 path to go and extract additional value
16:02 over time
16:04 yeah it's intended in the whole shift of
16:06 software that took place in the network
16:07 industry years ago was supposed to allow
16:09 better network uh vendor
16:11 interoperability and it never really led
16:13 to that in fact i've had people describe
16:15 uh their vendor lock-in situation as
16:16 being a little like hotel california
16:18 where you can check out but you can't
16:20 ever leave and uh so you know unless you
16:23 wait the best time to do that there
16:25 is always with cio turnover right so
16:28 that can be long uh cycles now um i i
16:31 did want to ask you about
16:32 the acceptance that you're seeing with
16:34 intent-based networking and autonomous
16:36 operations i know when apps are first
16:39 launched when i when i talked to it
16:41 people about this concept of autonomous
16:42 operations to use the technical term it
16:44 gave them the heebie-jeebies i mean a
16:46 lot of them were very concerned about it
16:48 and uh so what do you what do you see
16:50 now and i'm assuming you know work from
16:52 home has played you know a role in in
16:55 getting to look at your product but are
16:56 you seeing more acceptance of it and
16:58 what are some of those low-hanging fruit
17:00 use cases where if people were to
17:01 adopted they could take advantage of it
17:03 faster
17:05 yeah i think people in general are
17:06 getting more comfortable with automation
17:08 i still think it's a long journey
17:10 you know the processes that surround
17:11 automation are sometimes immature
17:13 especially in some of the enterprise
17:14 type accounts
17:15 so i think there's there's still work to
17:17 go and and move forward
17:19 but in terms of like basic use cases i
17:20 think you start looking at how quickly
17:22 can i stand up you know additional
17:23 capacity how do i expand how do i add
17:26 you know new racks how do i add new
17:27 servers how do i add new pods depending
17:29 on the size of the data center you start
17:32 looking at this whole idea of mean time
17:33 to innocence we have a
17:35 good customer in the retail space where
17:37 they have an online shopping platform
17:39 and at the end of each day they've got
17:41 you know there's items that sit in the
17:44 um in their in their shopping carts that
17:45 don't get closed and of course the the
17:48 uh the the teams come back and say you
17:49 know we didn't get we didn't convert
17:51 these to sales there's a network problem
17:52 these things timed out you know what's
17:54 the mean time to innocence they spend
17:56 their time literally every day
17:58 you know having to prove that there
17:59 wasn't some network issue that caused
18:00 these purchases not to go through what
18:02 we can do on the abstract side is by by
18:04 demonstrating that the network is
18:05 working as intended and and that there's
18:07 no issues it's like that mean time to
18:09 innocence is merely
18:10 at that point it's like a dashboard view
18:12 you know here things are working as
18:13 intended that's a that takes an
18:15 operational practice that would have
18:16 been manual triggered by people
18:18 forced to forcing other people to go in
18:20 run a bunch of commands and prove that
18:22 things are working as you want them to
18:24 now that becomes just part of the system
18:26 you know it's it's this idea that that
18:28 we can
18:29 provide information provide insight um
18:32 like that that's how you get to some of
18:34 these autonomous operations it's not
18:35 about removing keystrokes and making it
18:38 like oh i can type in some command
18:39 faster it's about you know helping you
18:41 make decisions much faster in this case
18:43 you know the decision is you know do i
18:45 need to go and troubleshoot the network
18:47 or are things working again the way
18:48 they're supposed to be working so maybe
18:50 you should go and look at other things
18:51 that might be causing um a problem on
18:53 the retail side like that's a the amount
18:56 of time that that that saves it's not
18:58 just the the time it takes to execute
19:00 commands but it's the time it takes for
19:02 for people to coordinate across
19:03 functions that's how you drive a lot of
19:05 value you know not just into the it or
19:07 the networking team but into the
19:09 enterprise at large
19:10 yeah i've likened the transition to
19:12 autonomous networking a little bit like
19:14 the transition to autonomous vehicles
19:16 right nobody
19:18 except maybe elon musk would jump into a
19:20 car with no steering wheel no controls
19:22 and no driver right but we're all
19:24 willing to drive a car now and actually
19:26 like features like parallel park assists
19:28 and lane change alerts and some of those
19:30 things and so you know baby steps will
19:32 get us there and one day down the road
19:34 we'll have fully autonomous operations
19:36 but i do think there is some trust that
19:38 needs to be built up here so a last
19:39 question for you mike if i if i look at
19:41 juniper's kind of bigger
19:44 messaging right
19:45 juniper talks a lot about experience
19:47 first networking and uh so can you tell
19:50 us what that is and then how does
19:52 abstract fit into that
19:55 yeah i mean the whole idea behind
19:56 experience first is this it's the notion
19:58 that the things we optimize for are
20:00 changing where it used to be all about
20:02 you know
20:03 price and performance it was about you
20:05 know transport moving packets like
20:07 that's table stakes right when when you
20:09 can move the packets the question is
20:11 what do you do from there it's no longer
20:12 about is your network up right and we
20:14 user experience is the new uptime it's
20:17 not
20:17 it's just not the case that having you
20:19 know
20:20 your high availability is enough to
20:22 declare success um you've got to look
20:24 and say well you know are things working
20:25 the way that you want them to work the
20:27 applications function in the data center
20:29 adequately to support the business
20:32 and if that's the case then you have to
20:33 do more than you know merely provision
20:35 things so that they so that connectivity
20:37 is in place you've got to be able to
20:40 um assure that that things are working
20:42 continuously the way they're supposed to
20:44 you've got to make sure that the
20:45 applications have um you know not just
20:47 the the connectivity but they've got you
20:49 know all the things that the drive
20:50 overall experience um so
20:52 for instance what does latency look like
20:54 within the application um you know are
20:56 you seeing intermittent drops are you
20:58 seeing
20:59 um you know congestion that's leading to
21:02 to changes in application side behavior
21:04 um if you look northbound into the
21:06 application space you know are we seeing
21:08 things that are happening you know at
21:09 the application side or maybe within
21:10 some of the the vmware you know suite of
21:12 tools and is that leading to the
21:14 decisions that need to be made or
21:16 information that needs to be sourced
21:17 from the underlying network this is like
21:19 it's it's so much broader than just
21:21 merely connecting things
21:22 um the whole role of appstra is
21:24 essentially saying look first let's
21:26 let's make it as simple as possible to
21:28 get the network up and running it's
21:30 table stakes let's do it well but let's
21:32 do it quickly so you don't have to spend
21:34 time on that
21:35 second you know the whole idea of
21:36 reliability is not that you know hey
21:38 i've pushed some configuration out and
21:40 it should be working it's like can i
21:42 guarantee can i demonstrate that it's
21:44 working
21:45 and that extending those workflows
21:47 beyond merely pushing the configuration
21:48 but to looking at sort of the assurance
21:50 and reliability side that's a big push
21:52 towards um as you start thinking about
21:55 you know what are the types of things
21:56 that impact experience we talked about
21:58 the policy overlap okay so you've you've
22:00 set your policy does that mean you're
22:02 good
22:03 well maybe but if somebody else has set
22:05 conflicting policy like isn't the
22:07 outcome that you want that you've got to
22:08 secure um that you have a secure posture
22:11 for a particular set of users whether
22:12 they're applications or tenants or
22:14 whoever it's more than merely pushing
22:16 configuration out it's got to be this
22:18 closed loop validation that's what apps
22:20 are trying to do and if we can do that
22:22 in an environment that's multivenger if
22:24 we can do an environment that's
22:26 multi-domain if we can do that in an
22:27 environment that's multi-technology
22:29 multi-topology like everything becomes
22:31 multi over time if abstract can be that
22:34 unified operations platform
22:36 over the top of all of those multis
22:39 like that's what we're trying to drive
22:40 here at juniper
22:42 all right well thanks for that mike and
22:44 uh you know after leading you to a
22:46 multi-everything world i guess a
22:48 multi-multi-world so uh you know with
22:50 that we're gonna wrap up i think that
22:51 was a great overview of your
22:52 announcements and you know clearly the
22:54 data center
22:55 has never been more important right
22:57 everything is moving to some kind of
22:59 data center be it you know a centralized
23:01 one public cloud or in an edge so uh
23:03 again uh thanks mike luxon from juniper
23:05 network for joining me i'm zeus caraval
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