HPE Aruba: What comes next?

At its atmosphere’23 conference in Las Vegas this week, HPE Aruba Networking unveiled a number of product innovations for enterprise IT and disclosed key strategic directions as it integrates with the HPE GreenLake

What’s next?  Major items include the next generation of HPE Aruba Networking Central, its cloud-native network management solution, Network-as-a-service (NaaS) capabilities for customers and channel partners to acquire, deploy, and manage on the HPE GreenLake platform with a monthly subscription, private 5G via its pending acquisition of Athonet, improved artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) to reduce manual tasks, and Zero Trust / SASE capabilities. 

“A modernized network is the backbone for powering next-generation digital experiences and enabling new business models,” said Phil Mottram, executive vice president and general manager, HPE Aruba Networking. “The evolution of our AIOps in HPE Aruba Networking Central and Agile NaaS represents the next step toward more effectively managing operational complexity, while connecting with ever-expanding workloads from edge to cloud for a seamless hybrid work experience.”

Some notes from the event:

• Over 4,300 attendees at the atmosphere’23 event
• Aruba has shipped over 27.6 million APs since 2006
• Over 23 million switch port shipped
• In the data center, the partnership with AMD Pensando is progressing and delivering significant performance, efficiency and functionality gains
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  The HPE Aruba Networking Central cloud network management platform has been re-designed to simplify operations and improve productivity. The interface offers “solar system” views to promote intuitive navigation and reduce cognitive loads; a “time-travel” feature for a contextually correlated ‘point-in-time’ view of the network that allows recovery in minutes to a specific point; multi-layer physical and logical “sunburst” topology views to transform visualization of large, complex networks; Intelligent assurance indicators for device health and client experience, enabling rapid first-level triage; and AI-powered full-stack insights for enhanced root cause analysis (RCA), impact assessment, and precise recommendations platform.

• A new Agile NaaS framework aims to make on-demand networking easier for partners to sell and end-user customers to consume. New service pack capabilities added to HPE GreenLake for Aruba networking enable partners to bundle their design and delivery services for their customers with a monthly NaaS technology subscription.
• New Service Pack enhancements on HPE GreenLake for Aruba networking adds a new standardized NaaS network policy offering to complement eight previously introduced wired, wireless, and SD-Branch NaaS service packs from 2022.
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  The recent acquisition of Axis Security, which occurred in March, adds SASE security capabilities. 
• The pending acquisition of Athonet, will bring private 5G capabilities. 
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