Juniper says that across ANZ, its customers and partners have benefitted from a cloud-native architecture, including microservices agility, resiliency and elastic scale - however, for businesses and government entities in Australia, the need to validate data storage locations have become increasingly crucial due to data privacy and cybersecurity concerns.

“With the launch of Juniper Australia’s cloud instance, Juniper can now provide more secure, resilient, and automated AI-driven cloud services. This offering supports digital transformation initiatives while ensuring that the Australian cloud instance meets customers' specific needs,” notes Juniper.

Juniper lists key benefits as:

• Data Center Hosting: By hosting data in a data center in Australia, Junipers’ SaaS offering helps customers meet their specific business requirements. .
• Faster Data Access: Data hosted in Australia results in quicker access speeds and lower latency, improving overall user experience.
• Robust Security Measures: Security measures to protect customer data, including encryption, SSO SAML authentication, and regular security audits.
• AI-Driven Customer Support: Mist uses AI to revolutionise the traditional enterprise support model with proactive notifications, automated workflows, AI-driven insight, and streamlined help-desk processes.
• Automation: The API contains tools known as endpoints for building software and applications that communicate with the Mist cloud and allow seamless integration into the customer ecosystem.

“The Juniper Mist solutions deliver unsurpassed automation, insight and assurance for simplified operator experiences and exceptional user experiences. The entire Juniper campus and branch portfolio is managed via a unified Mist cloud and AI engine for assured client-to-cloud experiences across the wired, wireless and WAN domains. Proactive actions and self-driving network operations avoid problems before they arise, eliminating over 90 percent of inbound network trouble tickets in some instances,” notes Juniper.

“I’m excited that we will be rolling out a cloud instance in the ANZ region to further expand the reach of our AI-driven Enterprise solutions across the market. We have seen strong growth and momentum across our Enterprise business in the ANZ region, and we look forward to helping more customers achieve their business goals with this new offering,” says Bruce Bennie, Regional Vice President, Australia & New Zealand, Juniper Networks.

“By introducing data hosted cloud services in the Australian region, Juniper Mist will be able to accelerate our vision to help customers transform their IT operations and deliver amazing experiences for their end users. While many businesses have already embraced Juniper AI-driven enterprise solutions, the new Australian cloud instance will enable more businesses, such as government entities, to take advantage of the innovation that Mist AI brings, ” says Zohar Cohen, Vice President, AI-Driven Enterprise Sales, APAC at Juniper Networks.

“Our government and enterprise customers are looking to embrace a modern cloud-native and AI-driven platform to boost outcomes but prefer a cloud instance in Australia to meet the requirements in the Australian market. With the Juniper Mist cloud, we’re able to migrate our customers to the network of the next decade and boost customer outcomes,” commented Michael van Rooyen, Chief Technology Officer at Orro Group.