Introduces New AI-Powered Analytics and Assurance Innovation and Partnerships for the Future of Mobile, IoT and Cloud
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today advanced
its Mobile
First Architecture with the introduction of new innovations in
AI-powered analytics and assurance to enable autonomous networking, as
well as partnerships to deliver smarter workplace experiences.
To help IT organizations enhance the user experience and ensure business
resilience as they continue to adopt mobility, IoT and cloud, Aruba has
introduced NetInsight,
an artificial intelligence (AI) based analytics and assurance solution
for optimizing network performance. Additionally, Aruba has added a new
category of smart
digital workplace partners to the ArubaEdge
Technology Partner Program including corporate real estate (CRE)
leaders, connected furniture companies, and technology vendors, to
deliver next-generation workplace experiences that securely support IoT,
building automation, and personalized, location-based services for
guests and employees.
Optimizing Network Performance: New NetInsight Delivers AI-Powered
Analytics and Assurance
Today, IT organizations are challenged with managing highly dynamic,
unpredictable environments with tools that were designed to manage
infrastructure, and not to enhance the user experience. IT professionals
require modern tools that proactively stay ahead of performance issues,
deliver insights into possible causes, and recommend configuration
changes that optimize the network before impacting users or the business.
To address this challenge, Aruba has expanded the analytics and
assurance capabilities of its Mobile First Architecture with its new
NetInsight solution. NetInsight uses machine learning to continuously
monitor the network, deliver insights in the event of anomalies, and
then recommends how best to optimize the network for today’s
mobile-first employees and workplace-critical IoT devices, based on data
that is specific to user connectivity and RF performance attributes.
Aruba customer, The University of Washington, is keenly focused on
providing a positive user experience at its campuses, hospitals, and
clinics. With more than 12,000 Wi-Fi access points and over 150,000
devices on the network daily, performance management challenges due to
size, unpredictable usage patterns and a wide range of performance
stringent applications, are a real concern.
“Today’s digital campuses and hospitals are increasingly dependent on
complex applications, smart devices and mobile users who expect to have
connectivity everywhere,” said David Morton, Director, Networks and
Telecommunications at the University of Washington. “Using Aruba
NetInsight, we have access to network data with flow visualizations and
actionable analytics that help us make critical decisions about
where expanded and new coverage is needed - such as outdoor Wi-Fi for
new construction. We can also validate the before and after impacts of
network change so that we can proactively deliver the best possible user
experience.”
Building the Smart Digital Workplace with an Ecosystem of Proven
Partners
Mobility, cloud and IoT adoption is changing the future of work,
demanding an autonomous approach to networking. Highly efficient,
IoT-enabled smart buildings are intersecting with the mobile-first
digital workplace. This new paradigm is forming a smart digital
workplace that needs to deliver secure and reliable, optimized and
personalized experiences that will foster employee creativity,
collaboration, speed and freedom.
Leveraging its Mobile First Architecture, Aruba has expanded its ArubaEdge
Technology Partner Program with a new category of partners that
include commercial real estate (CRE), connected furniture and new
technology companies. Together with Aruba, this new set of partners will
create modern workplaces that uniquely pair end user mobility, secure
connectivity, and location with the sensory context of enterprise IoT.
These experiences range from personalized workspace ergonomics and
lighting, to mobile UC and fully automated conference rooms, to
preventive equipment maintenance and automated energy conservation, on a
single infrastructure.
“Consumers have come to expect seamless experiences in everything that
they do, and that includes the workplace,” said Sandeep Davé, Chief
Digital and Technology Officer, Global Workplace Solutions at CBRE. “Our
clients, as they seek to attract and retain their best and brightest,
are finding it important to deliver an enhanced workplace experience.
They are turning to CBRE to deliver experiential services and a digital
workplace, which we do via CBRE 360, an experience services offering
enabled by leading technology. There is strong alignment between CBRE’s
goal of creating next generation workplace environments with integrated
property services and Aruba’s smart digital workplace direction. This is
an area where our teams have collaborated and expect to realize greater
synergies in the future.”
“Companies are reevaluating their real estate strategies to better align
with and enable the future of work,” said Francisco J. Acoba, Managing
Director and U.S. Lead – Global Real Estate Transformation, Deloitte
Consulting LLP. “The smart digital workplace, is now a major point of
differentiation for organizations as employers look to attract, retain
and grow today’s talent. The future of work will be defined by smart
workplace experiences, and corporate real estate leaders along with
their IT counterparts should consider embracing how mobility and
enterprise IoT will transform the physical office.”
“What constitutes a great workplace experience is rapidly evolving with
the addition of digital and data layers,” said Jeff Gibson, Director of
Advanced Business Development at Herman Miller. “People need a variety
of settings to perform their work activities and the digital layers that
we are delivering are helping to maximize the experience. We are working
with Aruba to create this vision where cloud connected furniture and
devices can be deployed to support a mobile-first digital experience.
Leveraging data and insights provides efficient usage of space for
organizations as well as maximizes the performance potential.”
Enhanced Collaboration and Seamless Workplace Productivity
In many digital enterprises, two or more collaboration applications are
used simultaneously, such as Skype for Business for voice calling and
desktop sharing, and Zoom for video meetings and bringing in mobile and
conference room devices. Zoom’s focus on frictionless meetings across
conference rooms and teaming spaces is well aligned with Aruba’s smart
digital workspace initiative.
“The workplace has evolved into experiences in which people, content,
and tools must seamlessly interact,” said Eric Yuan, Chief Executive
Officer at Zoom. “Zoom’s mobile, desktop, and software-based room
conferencing systems foster those experiences by allowing the most
suitable tools to work together. That openness is a breath of fresh air
for customers who for years had no choice but to buy their networks and
telepresence from a single vendor.”
To deliver a wide variety of proven digital workplace productivity and
enterprise IoT solutions, Aruba has furthered its ArubaEdge Technology
Partner Program, adding smart digital workplace partners AccelTex,
HPE
Pointnext, Lunera,
Patrocinium
and SpaceIQ
to a list that already includes Envoy,
Robin
and Teem.
These partners deliver integrated solutions that leverage a combination
of location services, and secure enterprise IoT management for
personalized, automated digital workplaces.
Pricing and Availability
NetInsight is available today as a subscription starting at $30 USD per
network device (access point, controller). Pricing varies with multiyear
subscriptions.
Additional Customer and Channel Partner Quotes
“Our customers are increasingly interested in modern workplace
environments driven by the growth in mobility and IoT,” said Tony
Balistrieri, VP, Corporate Field Sales, Zones,
Inc. “These new trends increase the reliance on having a trusted
partner for solutions architecting which is essential when bringing
together multiple technologies to deliver smart digital workplaces.”
The Ohio State University (OSU) is the third largest public university
in the US. With over 66,000 students with an average of 132,000 devices
connecting to its network daily, managing network performance can be
complex and time consuming which is one of the key reasons OSU deployed
Aruba’s NetInsight.
“NetInsight is filling an engineering void in our team by automatically
assessing the current and historic performance of the campus wireless
network, making suggestions for improvements, and measuring those
improvements in an easily digestible way,” said Bob Corbin, Senior
Director of Infrastructure, The Ohio State University. “In some
respects, it has become the newest member of our team.”
HPE Pointnext
Smart digital workplace services and solutions from HPE
Pointnext provide customers and partners worldwide the expertise to
fully take advantage of modern technology to propel innovation, customer
satisfaction and profitability driven from engaged employee experiences.
These services and solutions can help augment customer IT and Aruba
partner teams or provide the complete capabilities needed for the
design, development management and support of smart digital workplaces
built on the Aruba Mobile First Architecture and a curated ecosystem of
partners.
Additional Resources
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a leading provider of
next-generation networking solutions for enterprises of all sizes
worldwide. The company delivers IT solutions that empower organizations
to serve the latest generation of mobile-savvy users who rely on
cloud-based business apps for every aspect of their work and personal
lives.
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http://www.arubanetworks.com
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