(NYSE: HPE) today announced new edge solutions, research labs, and programs to simplify and accelerate Intelligent Edge adoption, enabling customers to create unique digital experiences and leverage analytics and machine learning to adapt to changes in real-time. The new offerings and programs include:
Major enhancements to Aruba Central, the only cloud-based platform that unifies network management, AI-powered analytics, user-centric service assurance and security for wired, wireless and WAN at the edge.
Integrations and new turnkey edge-to-cloud solutions, delivered with ABB, Microsoft and PTC, enabling real-time intelligence and control in industrial environments.
The Intelligent Edge and IoT Center of Excellence (CoE) and Labs, part of Hewlett Packard Labs, to develop and commercialize new capabilities and technologies that accelerate customersโ and partnersโ Intelligent Edge journey.
Research suggests that over the next decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) and related data growth has an economic potential of up to $11 trillion per year.ย To capture this potential, organizations need to implement anย Intelligent Edge, an architecture that is fully connected, secured, distributed and autonomous. However, to scale the Intelligent Edge across the value chain, organizations need solutions that secure and simplify deployment and management, converge operational technology (OT) with IT and address the lack of skills and funding.
โThe edge has emerged as the new center of the digital universe, opening up opportunities for organizations to create new digital experiences and gain competitive advantages,โ said Santanu Ghose, Director – India, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. โToday, we announce innovations that will enable our customers to capitalize on these experiences and opportunities by dramatically simplifying, securing and accelerating the deployment of the Intelligent Edge.โ
Unified cloud-based platform dramatically simplifies edge infrastructure security and management for the mobile, cloud and IoT era
Siloed network management solutions are creating complexity and increasing time to remediation. To accelerate IT operations and allow IT professionals time to focus on innovation, Aruba is making significant enhancements to Aruba Central. With these enhancements, customers will benefit from AI-powered network analytics, improved security and user-centric assurance for wired, wireless and WAN edge infrastructures from a single point of control. Significant advancements include:
Advanced AI-poweredย analytics and assuranceย capabilities based on Arubaย NetInsightย andย User Experience Insightย allow IT professionals to resolve infrastructure problems quickly before they impact the organization. Now integrated into the Aruba Central cloud-based platform, Arubaโs Analytics and Assurance capabilities deliver IT professionals a way to quickly remediate intermittent network issues while also proactively identifying how to optimize customersโ infrastructures to ensure optimal experiences.
Software-defined branch (SD-Branch) and SD-WAN,ย managed on Aruba Central, is now enhanced with improved branch management and orchestration capabilities to centrally define business-intent policies to meet the hybrid cloud connectivity needs for distributed enterprises and reduce operational costs. The newย SD-WAN Orchestratorย in Aruba Central makes it easier for IT professionals to deploy flexible and secure overlay topologies in a large-scale edge infrastructure, connecting thousands of branch locations with multiple data centers. Aruba Virtual Gateways now available for AWS and Azure, combined with orchestration, cost-effectively extends network and security policies to workloads running in the public cloud. The newย SaaS prioritizationย feature not only enhances the performance of SaaS applications but also provides visibility about the end-user experience for business-critical applications, such as Microsoft Office 365 and Salesforce.
Integrated in Aruba Central,ย Arubaย ClearPass Device Insightย provides IoT visibility and security via a single pane of glass, employing automated device discovery, and machine learning-based fingerprinting and identification. Used in conjunction with Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager and Arubaโsย dynamic segmentation security capabilities, networking and security teams can automate unique policy enforcement down to each device and use
New network managementย workflowย enhancements are integrated into Aruba Central to accelerate device provisioning with an automated mobile app to deliver network health views and troubleshooting across all locations allowing IT to focus on delivering the needs of the business.
To provide organizations more flexibility and choice in how they obtain and support their edge infrastructure, Aruba solutions are also available viaย HPE GreenLake for Arubaย a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) subscription-based offering.
Turnkey edge-to-cloud solutions enable real-time intelligence at the industrial edge
In industrial environments, the Intelligent Edge requires an intricate interplay between sensors, actuators, networks, applications and infrastructures from edge to cloud. It also involves unique challenges including harsh environmental conditions, intermittent network connectivity and lack of qualified on-site staff. Consequently, such deployments are often costly, slow and vulnerable to security and reliability problems. To simplify, accelerate and secure deployments, HPE is launching pre-integrated turnkeyย edge-to-cloud solutions in collaboration with key industry partners:
Theย integration ofย ABB Abilityโข Smart Sensor technology with Aruba access pointsย is designed to deliver a scalable, high-performance wireless connectivity solution for operational technology (OT) equipment such as motors, mounted bearings and pumps. This allows industrial companies to capture valuable data and insights from their equipment to proactively monitor their condition and performance, and plan maintenance in advance in order to avoid costly and disruptive downtime.ย
Jointly developed by ABB, HPE, Microsoft and Rittal,ย theย Secure Edge Data Center for Microsoft Azure Stackย is the industryโs first enterprise-grade edge appliance forย Microsoft Azure Stack, enabling real-time intelligence and action in harsh industrial environments, while providing seamless integration with Microsoft Azure. The applianceย providesย IP55-rated environmental protection,ย cooling, redundant power supply and distribution and automated managementย โ allowing customers to run pre-configured, high-end enterprise applicationsย in locations such as factories or oil rigs.
HPE Edgeline IoT Quick Connectย dramatically simplifies the convergence of OT and IT, enabling customers to monitor and control OT equipment such as machines or motors in real time. Jointly delivered with Microsoft, HPE Edgeline IoT Quick Connect is based on theย HPE Edgeline OT Link Platform, which connects OT devices, theย HPE Edgeline EL300 Converged Edge Systemย andย Microsoft Azure IoT, a collection of cloud services to connect, monitor and control IoT assets.
Fast Start Condition Monitoringย enables customers set up condition monitoring within 90 days to deliver performance and availability of their OT equipment. An end-to-end solution implemented byย HPE Pointnext Services,ย Fast Start Condition Monitoringย is designed for customers who want to get started quickly with condition monitoring, but lack the skills to do so. HPE Pointnext Services help define use cases, OT data sources and workflows, and implement pilots for proof of value, based on HPE Edgeline Converged Edge Systems, the HPE Edgeline OT Link Platform and PTCโsย ThingWorxยฎย Industrial IoT platform.
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