What does the future of work look like? Aruba thinks it has the answer for IT teams
The pandemic changed many workers’ relationships with work forever, and in a post-Covid world, many of us simply aren’t willing to accept the shortcomings we tolerated before. HPE Aruba Solutions redefined the tech space when we were forced behind our laptop screens; now, they’re hoping to make life easier for enterprise IT teams the world over, with a new IT-fuelled, cloud-native network management solution.
Aruba Solutions is a jewel in the crown for HP, which has gone through somewhat of a transformation itself in recent years. The self-styled global leader in wired, wireless, and SD-WAN solutions that ‘use AI to automate and secure the network from edge to cloud’, is hoping to ease operations across the board with its state-of-the-art solutions. As reported by ChannelE2E, it’s using tech to push enterprises into the future.
Central Intelligence
Make way for HPE Aruba Networking Central. The company have fully gotten their knees under the table at Hewlett Packard, and Aruba has been hard at work, redesigning its flagship technology to simplify operatives, streamline practices and improve productivity. How? By leveraging AI (artificial intelligence) to cut down on manual tasks; with a bit of luck, strained teams can concentrate on higher-value projects as a result.
Heard the term SaaS – Software as a Service? Well, Aruba’s gone one better, providing NaaS (Network as a Service) capabilities to both its customers and partners to acquire, deploy and manage on HPE’s GreenLake platform. These launches serve to take the pain pressure off IT teams – it changes the narrative that the onus is on the worker, or that there is, in fact, a talent shortage. Instead, Aruba’s automation could instead see those same teams prosper by embracing artificial intelligence.
“Networking Central offers Multi-layer physical and logical “sunburst” topology views to transform visualisation of large, complex networks.”
– ChannelE2E
Feature-rich future
In a world that’s still grappling with increasing advancements in AI, it’s a big ask, but Aruba is banking on enterprises being healthier, happier places if technologists take note of Networking Central’s key features. They include operator-centric backend design, intended to enable users across skill levels, and a simplified ‘time-travel’ feature, for a contextually correlated ‘point-in-time’ of a network; if there’s a problem, anyone can rewind to a specific point, a little like a save state snapshot of a video game.
Phil Mottram, the executive Vice President and General manager of HPE Aruba Networking started: “A modernised network is the backbone for powering next-generation digital experience and enabling new business models.” Time will tell how these models shape up, but it’s clear that thanks to the continued, funding, innovation and acquisition of companies such as Hewlett Packard and their new subsidiaries, innovations on the scale of Aruba’s new networking technologies promises to usher in an exciting new age where workers can focus on the future, and not the friction.
What solutions would you suggest to further empower IT workers? Do you agree with Aruba? Let us know in the comments!
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