HPE Expands Aruba Central With New Deployment Options
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), a provider of enterprise technology solutions, has expanded its HPE Aruba Networking Central platform with new deployment options designed to address increasing customer demand for data sovereignty and local network control.
The company has introduced a virtual private cloud (VPC) environment for organisations requiring cloud agility alongside specific data security controls, as well as an on-premises option capable of operating while disconnected from cloud infrastructure.
With these updates, HPE is eager to position itself as the only network management vendor that is offering cloud-native AI operations across four deployment models: dedicated customer VPC, on-premises, public Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), or network-as-a-service (NaaS).
“Organisations are increasingly prioritising data sovereignty, requiring regional and local presence for mission-critical IT solutions,” says Phil Mottram, Executive Vice President and General Manager of HPE Aruba Networking.
“With these innovations, HPE now uniquely addresses pressing enterprise challenges for corporate, nonprofit, and government entities with network management deployment flexibility.”
Confronting the cloud regulatory landscape
A notable expansion is HPE Aruba Networking Central On-Premises for Government, which includes FIPS 140-2 certified server hardware to satisfy government security requirements. This option aims to support organisations operating in regulatory environments where data localisation is mandated.
Additionally, the public cloud and VPC deployment options on offer utilise the HPE GreenLake cloud infrastructure, which is designed to maintain local cloud presence across numerous global regions to help organisations comply with regional data protection frameworks like GDPR.
Other HPE Aruba Networking Central innovations include an always-on automated network AIOps capability that continuously monitors wired and wireless network operations. This feature employs a system of AI assistants functioning as network architects, gathering diagnostic data and providing recommendations to optimise performance.
- Four distinct deployment options
- Always-on, AI-powered Automated Network Assistant
- Increased global points of presence (PoP) with dedicated instances in the US, Canada, the EU, the Middle East and Africa
- Device telemetry data lake of more than 5.2 million devices managed and over 2 billion network devices served
- Broadening availability of third-party observability
- End-to-End telemetry to boost Microsoft Teams Quality of Experience
- Extensive Integration APIs
AI systems like this can identify configuration errors before they impact operations and offer suggestions for extending existing capacity and closing security gaps.
Crucially, HPE’s AI models are trained on a device telemetry data lake encompassing more than 5.2 million managed devices and over two billion network devices served, representing 30% and 100% year-over-year growth rates respectively.
HPE Aruba Networking Central: Advancing connectivity solutions
HPE has also expanded the platform's network observability and telemetry capabilities for heterogeneous network environments and critical IT applications. New additions include a one-year subscription to monitoring capabilities for third-party devices, powered by OpsRamp, a company acquired by HPE.
As a cloud-native platform, HPE Aruba Networking Central can simplify data centre network management by unifying infrastructure management, offering AI-driven analytics and providing features like intelligent alerts and streamlined deployments.
The platform can protect against cyberattacks and confront demanding AI workloads with secure, AI-ready data centre switching.
The platform will support monitoring of equipment from third-party vendors including Cisco, Arista and Juniper Networks. It also adds native integration with Microsoft Teams to identify, troubleshoot and improve quality of service for voice and video calls in real time.
First introduced in 2014, HPE Aruba Networking Central provides functions for configuring, managing, monitoring and troubleshooting networks across wired and wireless LAN, WAN and the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure.
The platform is sold as an annual subscription with a two-tier licensing model (Foundation and Advanced) through HPE channel partners, including via managed service provider (MSP) delivery models.
Phil says: “Combined with our continued innovation across AI, security and connectivity, HPE Aruba Networking Central continues to offer a powerful network management application, helping organisations meet their security, privacy and control requirements.”
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