“Cost is a big driver, but cost is not the only driver,” said Manoj Leelanivas (pictured, third from right), chief operating officer of Juniper. “If you look at [it] geopolitically across the world [and] what’s happening, data privacy is a big thing. People want to protect their domain, their individual unique secret sauce as much as possible, so there is that, and the big thing is sovereignty … Do you want to depend upon a hyperscaler, which is from a country which is not very friendly to you? There is a lot of momentum going on with every country, every sovereign nation trying to build their own secret sauce because this is the new arms race, AI is the new race.”
Leelanivas and Juniper executives, Raj Yavatkar (right), chief technology officer, Praveen Jain (third from left), senior vice president and general manager of AI clusters and cloud ready data center, and AE Natarajan(second from right), executive …