H.P.E. has decided refresh your cloud native network management solution HPE Aruba Networking with several better ones. Among them, various product innovations focused on simplifying network management processes and improving operational agility. Both objectives are achieved thanks to the update of HPE Aruba Networking Central. The solution will also now feature new network-as-a-service capabilities, which customers and channel partners can adopt, deploy and manage on HPE GreenLake as a monthly subscription.
HPE Aruba Networking Central has been redesigned to be easier to operate with, and to facilitate improved productivity through the integration of Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). In this way, your users will be able to reduce manual tasks, and network teams will be able to focus on other more strategic and important tasks.
In addition, HPE Aruba Networking has also announced its Agile NaaS framework, created to make it easier for partners to bring networking to market on demand, and to make it easier for customers to consume it. In addition, new service bundling capabilities introduced by HPE GreenLake for Networking will allow partners to bundle their design and delivery services into a monthly Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) subscription.
HPE Aruba Networking Central: Main news
The new edition of HPE Aruba Networking Central offers several advantages. Like automated factory operations, personalized customer experiences, a reduced carbon footprint, and omnichannel retail operations for seamless shopping in-store, mobile, or desktop.
Among its main innovations is a design focused on the operator, with a simplified user experience that seeks to be used by as many people as possible, regardless of their level of training. To do this, among other things, it incorporates new views for more intuitive navigation.
In addition, it offers the “time travel” function, which allows you to obtain a view of the network correlated in context with a specific moment in time. With it you can recover, in a few minutes, what happened at a specific time.
New to HPE Aruba Networking Central are also multi-tier logical and physical topology views, to simplify visualization of large and complex networks. Also intelligent service indicators, which give the opportunity to visualize the status of the devices and the customer experience.
In this way, a first level diagnosis can be made. Another novelty consists of the offer of complete information based on Artificial Intelligence to improve root cause analysis (RCA), the evolution of the impact and precise recommendations. It also offers Day 0 and Day 1 workflows to automate network configurations at scale.
Agile NaaS
Agile NaaS (Network as a service, network as a service), is Aruba’s framework for customers to have more facilities to implement new consumption options with the network as a service. Also to expedite obtaining business results. It offers tools that allow network teams to collaborate with the business to develop a network-as-a-service strategy that meets their unique needs.
This framework supports a range of acquisition, deployment and management models; and it has the capacity to introduce the network as a service, gradually and without the need to renew the entire network. Finally, it incorporates global Zero Trust security, cloud performance and scale, and AI-powered automation.
Service Pack enhancements in HPE GrenLake for Networking
New to the Service Pack in HPE GreenLake for Networking is a new Network Policy NaaS service package, based on the Aruba ClearPass network access control solution. In this way, a standardized NaaS policy offer is added to the existing ones, with the aim of complementing eight wired, wireless and SD-Branch NaaS service packages that have been appearing since last year 2022.
Channel partners can now order HPE GreenLake for Networking service packs in 15 countries, including Spain. The rest of the countries where they are available are Australia, Canada, Germany, Finland, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States. The Network Policy service pack, about network policies, will be available for order from the third quarter of HPE’s fiscal year.
In addition to these developments, HPE has announced the closing in March of the purchase of Axis Security, which has meant that its edge-to-cloud security solutions are already integrated with HPE Aruba Networking technology. As for the Athonet acquisition, it is expected to be able to close in the fourth quarter of HPE’s fiscal year 2023. Its solutions, upon closing of your purchase, will also be integrated into the HPE Aruba Networking portfolio and its telecommunications software.
Phil Motram, Vice President and General Manager, HPE Aruba Networkinghas highlighted that «a The modern web is the backbone for powering next-generation digital experiences and enabling new business models. The evolution of our AIOps into HPE Aruba Networking Central and Agile NaaS represents the next step toward more effective management of operational complexity, while connecting with ever-expanding workloads from the edge to the cloud for a seamless hybrid work experience. fissures”.
