Aruba Displaces Incumbents to Capture Over 80
New Core Customers Per Month
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
announced that organizations globally are replacing their core
switching infrastructure with the Aruba 8000 Series Core Switches
running ArubaOS-CX (AOS-CX), the industry’s most advanced operating
system purpose-built for the unique demands of the mobile, IoT and
cloud era.
The Aruba 8000 Series hardware and software breakthrough design
principles provide deep visibility, advanced telemetry and
simplified automation, allowing network operators to utilize data
and insights to drive better business outcomes. To date, numerous
enterprise customers – over 80 new customers per month – have
replaced their existing core switches with the Aruba 8000 Series
and are realizing significant business benefits.
The key to unleashing the full benefits of the 8000 Series lies
within the AOS-CX operating system, a cloud-native, programmable
software foundation that acts as the brains of the switch to
automate and simplify many critical and complex network functions.
Coupled with the 8000 Series’ carrier-class availability and
performance, AOS-CX enables customers to leverage actionable
insights from the network while using machine learning-based
automation to quickly and efficiently identify and remediate
network issues before they negatively impact the business or end
user experience.
Faith Regional Health Services, a 129-bed acute care facility in
northeast Nebraska, installed its Aruba 8320 switches earlier this
year. As a regional referral center dedicated to providing
comprehensive, high-quality healthcare, Faith Regional Health
Services’ primary goal was to establish dual redundancy within
their core network to simplify IT system maintenance with zero
downtime. Faith Regional’s IT team also leveraged advanced features
of the AOS-CX operating system, and its integration with Aruba
ClearPass, a full spectrum security solution for network access
control (NAC), to ensure that network access is granted to the
right users via stringent policy enforcement. With the Aruba 8000
Series, Faith Regional is able to deliver secure, reliable
connectivity to the thousands of mobile and IoT devices on its
network, while improving productivity for its 1,200 employees and
eliminating downtime during maintenance cycles.
“The Aruba 8320s allowed us to finally have dual redundancy and
perform zero downtime maintenance. In addition, it’s enabling us to
advance our security strategy with Aruba ClearPass,” said Paul
Feilmeier, director of Information Technology at Faith Regional
Health Services. “I expected state-of-the-art technology from Aruba
and that’s what we got with the 8320s.”
The Aruba 8000 Series Core Switches also provide the performance
and resiliency necessary for global enterprises to operate at the
pace of business. Ingeteam is an international group specializing
in power and control electronics and electrical engineering and
automation projects with operations in 22 countries around the
world. Based in Spain, its products, systems and services
specialize in energy conversion across multiple energy sectors,
including wind, hydro and fossil fuel power generation, and metal
and mineral processing. Ingeteam Power Technology deployed the
Aruba 8400 in its enterprise campus, distribution and data center
core and Aruba 8320 switches in the data center access layer as
part of a network upgrade to modernize its infrastructure to better
address the needs of its customers.
For Ingeteam Power Technology, the built-in automation and
analytics capabilities of the AOS-CX operating system have provided
the increased visibility needed to proactively address issues
before they paralyze the network. According to Endika Eibar, IT
manager at Ingeteam Power Technology, “The analytics we gain from
the network have provided us with simplified visibility into
possible incidents and anomalies, which is very helpful when
analyzing problems. The ability to customize the information via
dashboards makes it even easier to see the data that’s most
important.”
Education customers are also realizing benefits from their Aruba
8000 core switch deployments. With the explosive growth of
e-learning initiatives, coupled with the increased demands on the
network from mobile and IoT devices, educational institutions need
solutions that deliver always-on, high-performance connectivity
that does not require day-to-day manual IT intervention.
Grove City College, a 180-acre liberal arts college in Grove
City, Pennsylvania, deployed the Aruba 8400 switches in the core to
help facilitate connected, engaging experiences for its students,
faculty and staff. Grove City selected the Aruba 8400 for its
bandwidth capacity, the simplified management made possible by
AOS-CX, such as the ability to use programming scripts for task
automation, security integration, and its Network Analytics Engine
(NAE) which leverages machine learning to proactively alert network
operators of impending issues.
“At Grove City College, we’re currently in the midst of a
digital transformation unlike any we’ve seen before in our
college’s history,” said Vincent DiStasi, chief information officer
at Grove City College. “To be able to bring intelligence into the
core, while automating network management, goes a long way towards
reducing complexity and increasing efficiency, allowing us to be
more agile and nimble as an organization.”
For Appleton Area School District in Wisconsin, the need to
simplify network operations was paramount in the decision to
implement the Aruba 8000 Series. Serving 16,000 students and 2,500
staff across 37 school sites, the school district needed a robust,
high performance switching solution that could help simplify
operations by bringing together several disparate systems through
the use of a common management platform.
“With the Aruba 8400 and 8325, all of the hardware and software
works together in a similar manner, making day-to-day configuration
simple and fast,” said Adam Hanson, network administrator at
Appleton Area School District. “This allows us to move forward with
new technology initiatives without worrying about infrastructure
limitations both now and well into the future.”
For Aruba 8000 Series customers, the future is bright. Ingeteam
Power Technology’s Eibar concludes, “With Aruba’s innovations, we
see a long-term growth trajectory and not only because of the
performance it offers, but also because of the advanced
functionalities that are delivered via software.”
For more information on the Aruba 8000 Series Core Switches,
please visit
https://www.arubanetworks.com/products/networking/switches/
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a leading
provider of secure, intelligent networks that enable customers to
thrive and deliver amazing digital experiences in the mobile, IoT
and cloud era. We are changing the rules of networking to make it
simple for IT and organizations to bridge the physical and digital
worlds at the Edge.
To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com. For
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