Staying Out Of It: Juniper Moves J-Partner Summit To May

Count Juniper among the vendors that want no part of having to ask VARs to pick one event over the other. On Wednesday, Juniper confirmed it had moved the conference to May.

A Juniper spokesperson confirmed in an e-mail to Channelweb.com that Juniper's J-Partner Summit will be held in Phoenix May 24-26, 2010.

In doing so, Juniper's stepping out of the HP-Cisco crossfire, and also away from a number of other major networking- and infrastructure-centric conferences scheduled for that same week, including Interop.

When it was confirmed that HP and Cisco would have their flagship partner events the same week, several solution providers told Channelweb.com that smaller VARs that want to work with both vendors but didn't have the resources to attend both conferences would feel the squeeze worst.