New Platform Uses AI and Automation to Convert
Data into Actionable Insights; Supports Business Continuity and
Recovery to Address Rapidly Evolving Organizational Needs
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
introduced Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform), the industry’s first
AI-powered, cloud-native platform that predicts and resolves
problems at the network edge before they happen. Built on AIOps,
Zero Trust network security, and a Unified Infrastructure for
campus, data center, branch and remote worker locations, Aruba ESP
delivers an automated, all-in-one platform that continuously
analyzes data across domains, ensures SLAs, identifies anomalies
and self-optimizes, while seeing and securing unknown devices on
the network. Aruba ESP is designed to deliver a cloud experience at
the edge and can be consumed either as a service in the cloud or
on-premises, as a managed service delivered through Aruba partners,
or via network as a service through HPE GreenLake. Tailored for
varying economic requirements, customers may also procure it with
flexible financing options via HPE Financial Services.
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Built on AIOps, Zero Trust network
security, and a Unified Infrastructure for campus, data center,
branch and remote worker locations, Aruba ESP can predict and
resolve problems at the network edge before they happen. (Graphic:
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The technology market undergoes a major transition about once
every decade. The last two decades were centered on delivering
ubiquitous mobility followed by the move to cloud-based
applications. We are now entering an era of data analytics driven
by IoT, AI and automation supported by compute and modern
networking to power a new breed of applications and workloads that
work in concert with the cloud but that operate at the edge. As a
result, enterprises are generating massive amounts of unstructured
data at the edge which, if analyzed and acted upon properly, can be
used to improve efficiencies, enhance experiences and enable new
business outcomes. The key to turning these real-time insights into
meaningful actions is to analyze and process this data at the point
of origin – the edge – where people, devices and things connect to
the digital world. This ability to generate actionable insights
based on data is especially pertinent today during this
unprecedented time in history where businesses, employees and,
subsequently, the corporate network must adapt to rapidly evolving
business and workplace needs.
Utilizing unstructured data at the edge requires a network that
leverages AI via network telemetry to process that data at a rate
and volume beyond what’s possible at human scale. It also requires
an infrastructure with an AI-powered “sixth sense” that proactively
identifies impending issues, recommends an accurate resolution and
leverages automation to turn that into logical actions, all without
manual intervention. Through continued analysis of network, user,
and device insights, Aruba ESP turns information into knowledge,
helping organizations accelerate transformation and maintain
business continuity via a single, cloud-native platform that can
reside either on-premises or in the cloud, and secures and unifies
the infrastructure across the enterprise built on the following
core principles:
- AIOps is the critical
component of Aruba ESP, which uses AI and analytics to identify
exact root causes with greater than 95% accuracy, auto-remediate
network issues, proactively monitor the user experience, tune the
network to prevent problems before they occur, and use peer
benchmarking and prescriptive recommendations to continuously
optimize and secure the network. In a live customer deployment,
using AIOps resulted in a 15% increase in throughput capacity and
reduced issue resolution time by nearly 90%, ultimately resulting
in a vastly improved end user and IT experience.
- Unified Infrastructure consolidates all network
operations for switching, Wi-Fi and SD-WAN across campus, data
center, branch, and remote worker environments under Aruba Central,
a cloud-native, single-pane-of-glass console that correlates
cross-domain events to reduce issue resolution time and manual
errors. In addition, Aruba’s unified infrastructure approach
provides customers with a choice between controller services
on-premises or in the cloud, delivering maximum flexibility at
enterprise scale.
- Zero Trust Network Security combines built-in role-based
access technology, Dynamic Segmentation and identity-based
intrusion detection to authenticate, authorize and control every
user and device connecting to the network, while still detecting,
preventing, isolating and stopping attacks before they impact the
business.
“The Intelligent Edge is the catalyst that will spark limitless
possibilities for organizations and enterprises that want to
accelerate transformation and ensure business continuity by
leveraging their technology investments as their greatest asset,”
said Keerti Melkote, president of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company. “Built upon Aruba’s guiding principles of
connect, protect, analyze, and act, Aruba ESP is the culmination of
years of innovation, R&D, Aruba ingenuity and, most
importantly, input from our valued customers whose honest feedback
and insightful perspective has helped to make this platform a
network that knows.”
New Innovations Within Aruba ESP
Aruba ESP is the industry’s most scalable, full-stack,
cloud-native platform for wired, wireless and SD-WAN environments
that unifies multiple network elements for centralized management
and control. Aruba ESP is based on open standards and enables
integration with a variety of third-party solutions and services.
Significant innovations introduced today include:
- Cloud-native management for any size enterprise – Aruba
Central currently runs mission critical networks for over 65,000
customers and now with new ArubaOS services, it is the industry’s
only controllerless, cloud-based platform to provide full-stack
management and operations for wired, wireless and SD-WAN
infrastructure of any size across campus, data center, branch, and
remote worker locations to be consumed on-premises or in the
cloud.
- Simplified daily operations with unified infrastructure
– With access to a common data lake via Aruba ESP, the latest
version of Aruba Central has been enhanced with simplified
navigation, advanced search, and contextual views to present
multiple dimensions of information through a single
point-of-control, virtually eliminating the need for disparate
tools to collect and correlate information across numerous domains
and locations.
- Reduced resolution time with AI and automation – Aruba
has a proven track record of bringing AI-powered innovations to
market, including unique technologies like Aruba AirMatch. Based on
modeling data from over one million network devices generating over
1.5B data points per day, Aruba’s new AI Insights reduces
troubleshooting time by identifying hard-to-see network
configuration issues and providing root-cause, prescriptive
recommendations and automated remediation to continuously optimize
network operations.
- AI-powered IT Efficiencies—Aruba Central now offers AI
Search, a Natural Language Processing data discovery service that
enables IT teams to eliminate “swivel chair” investigations by
using simple, English language queries to extract comprehensive
user and device information from Aruba ESP’s common data lake to
present relevant information in context to quickly resolve a
problem. For more complex issues, AI Assist uses event-driven
automation to collect and post all the relevant data for both the
internal help desk and Aruba Technical Assistance Center
(TAC).
- Granular visibility across applications, devices and the
network – Enhancements to Aruba Central enable user-centric
analytics from User Experience Insight to identify client,
application, and network performance issues faster.
- Extension of next-gen switching to distributed and mid-size
enterprises – To help organizations accelerate Edge
transformation, Aruba has expanded its CX Switch portfolio to
include the Aruba CX 6200 Switch Series. This new series brings
built-in analytics and automation capabilities to every network
edge where user and device connectivity occurs, generating insights
that can be applied to informing better business outcomes. The CX
6200 switch series further expands Aruba’s end-to-end CX switching
portfolio, enabling customers to run a single operating model from
the enterprise campus and branch access layer to the data
center.
- Ongoing innovation with new Developer Hub – Aruba is
introducing the Developer Hub, a comprehensive resource for
developers that includes Aruba APIs and documentation to streamline
the development of innovative, next-generation edge applications
leveraging the open Aruba ESP platform.
“Our large-scale network spans multiple campuses and learning
centers that run performance-stringent applications to keep our
students, academics and researchers connected and productive,” said
Ron Gardner, senior infrastructure engineer at James Cook
University. “We have chosen to take a cloud-first approach to
operating our infrastructure and the enhancements to Aruba Central
and ArubaOS give us the visibility and insight to simplify
operations while reducing our equipment footprint and securely
manage our large campuses and distributed locations from the cloud,
ultimately allowing us to proactively identify and address issues
before they disrupt operations.”
To address the varying business and technical requirements of
organizations looking to harness the power of the Intelligent Edge,
Aruba has expanded its consumption and procurement options. These
include network as a service through HPE GreenLake or customers can
procure Aruba ESP with flexible financing options via HPE Financial
Services. For example, customers can acquire the technology they
need today and pay only 1% of the total contract value each month
for the first eight months, deferring over 90% of the cost until
2021.
“With the size of our infrastructure and massive volume of data
being generated at the edge, we needed a way to identify, fix and
fine-tune the network automatically,” said Brandon Stratton, ES
network administrator of Information Technology at the University
of Houston. “Aruba’s expertise and approach with AI-based
solutions, like NetInsight, represents a pragmatic path for us to
analyze and then act on the insights we capture.”
Tune into ATM Digital beginning June 9th to see Aruba ESP in
action, hear from industry luminaries and experts, and learn about
the latest advancements in networking. Register here to attend.
Additional Resources
- Blog: Unlock the Power of Intelligent Edge with Aruba ESP
- Video: Introducing Aruba ESP
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 real-time news
updates, follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook, and for the latest
technical discussions on mobility and Aruba products, visit the
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