Michael Bushong | Source | Group Vice President - Cloud-Ready Data Center at Juniper Networks
Michael Bushong
Michael is the Group Vice President of the Cloud-Ready Data Center at Juniper Networks. With more than 20 years of professional experience, he offers an uncommon blend of technology savvy, strategic sense, influencing skills, and storytelling magic that allows him to develop a clear vision, set product direction, and gain consensus across diverse internal and external stakeholders. Repeatedly, Michael has influenced vision, strategy, and market success of industry trend-setting, flagship technology products and have a reputation for passion, bold action, rapid assimilation of new concepts, high self-motivation, fast-moving response to changing market demands, and agility in solving a broad range of strategic problems.
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Juniper Networks (https://www.juniper.net/us/en/)
Group Vice President - Cloud-Ready Data Center
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DCD Podcast: The future of hyperscale networking, with Juniper Networks' Mike Bushong
And how that future will filter down to the wider industry
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Hyperscalers know what they want, down to the component level. It's no longer high-level outcomes, it's around systems designs, architectures, programmatic architectures. The thing about the cloud is that you're not buying their compute, you're buying their operations. With that in mind, they have very specific ideas about what operations look like, and so they don't ask what you have and build around it. They tell you what you need and you have to plug into what they need.
