Likelihood to Recommend Juniper Operating systems are well suited for distribution and edge networks. When we evaluated them for a proposal to core networks we decided to go with other vendors, as the processing capacity of core routers was lower. Typical environments Junos OS has fit in our organization are enterprise, customer edge, distribution networks.
Read full review If somebody whishes to be an IT professional, learning the basics of Linux is amust. Ubuntu [Linux] is one of the most beginner-friendly, widely supported, easy-to-use-relative-to-the-fact-that-its-still-linux OS on the market. As somebody who learned the basics of UNIX/LINUX on Ubuntu, it was a very good experience. It is customizable, has a lot of improvements over the years, and live up to be a viable alternative to any modern OS in 2021 as well.
Read full review Pros BGP auto-peering Juniper ATP cloud for threat profiling Segment Routing algorithms allows customization Read full review PACKAGE MANAGEMENT. You can update everything - OS installed software, you name it with either a few clicks in a GUI or a single command. No bloatware. No need for antivirus software. Certainly the price is right. My 83 year old grandmother has been using it - and because of this I rarely need to provide tech support. But I still visit my grandmother. You can choose from a variety of user interfaces or rock it in the terminal. Generally speaking, Ubuntu is as polished an OS as any you might pay for. Read full review Cons GUI has come a long way, but can be improved SDN features Training, documentations and online discussion forums can be improved. Read full review The repository system could be a little better, as some of the software needed is not easily available there. Ubuntu sometimes does not play nicely or easily with some modern firmwares. Some people report slow responses with newer versions of Ubuntu, although we have not experienced any. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Experience with other Distributions.
Read full review Support Rating We did not use the managed commercial support, but instead relied on community forums and official documentation. Ubuntu is very well documented across both instructional documentation from the developers themselves as well as informal support forums [ServerFault, YCombinator, Reddit]. It's easy enough to find an answer to any question you may have
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iOS for datacenter networks for many years due to familiarity and ease of use. Junos OS is well suited for business customers, due to cost-effectiveness and not frequent changes to end routers. Junos OS is very comparable to its competitors, but it bit behind on core layer solutions.
Read full review Windows 10 : Expensive, with more security problems, more difficult to keep updated and less variety of free / open source applications. Its use encourages bad information security practices. OpenSuse Linux : A different distribution at source (Suse Linux), use of rpm packages (with fewer repositories and incompatible with Ubuntu Linux dpkg packages), and whose main objective is to be a "testing ground" for its paid version / professional, SUSE enterprise Linux.
Read full review Return on Investment Junos OS is cost effective Uptime is impressive and has proven availability Lack of training among employees has made it harder for few teams to troubleshoot Read full review Systems administration with Ubuntu is easy with little deep knowledge about it. Docs and community publications are great resources for any task you need to perform on any Ubuntu server and the organization can save several salaries of specialized sys admins in favor of more active roles. Having been an Ubuntu user for many years personally, setting up new Ubuntu servers on my organization came with zero cost for me. I just deployed one instance from my hosting/cloud provider and started working right after it was running, no need to ask support or hire new staff for these tasks. Replacing paid options with Ubuntu have also saved thousands of dollars on Windows Server licenses. I've migrated Windows/SQL Server based systems to Ubuntu/MySQL/PostgreSQL several times during my career and saved about USD 5000/year in licenses to many of them. Read full review ScreenShots