HPE & Aruba - Software Defined Networking

The workplace has become more digital to support adoption of more mobile and cloud applications. These changes have resulted from the nature of work changing – collaborative working, non-routine schedules, and a workforce that expects to work anytime, anywhere. As a result, organisations are adjusting their physical and technology designs to accommodate new ways of working.

It’s not just the work environment that is changing, employees now expect personal, contextual, and secure experiences that make every aspect of their lives easier. Network and IT staff supporting them must meet the rising demands for secure, high-speed network access.

Digital disruption is driving innovation in business models, optimising internal processes, unleashing new products and services, and radically changing how organisations engage with customers. Organisations must adapt to this multi-device, multi-mode world where quality is measured not by schedules and budgets, but by user experience.

Today’s workforce does not work in fixed perimeters – users connect and work from anywhere. To protect the enterprise and its resources, IT must consider security that starts from the inside out.

The Aruba ClearPass Policy Management Platform is a central component that allows IT to adapt and apply trust levels based on every user and device that requests wireless, wired, or VPN access. To do this, ClearPass leverages real-time, contextual data that IT can trust – a person’s role inside an organisation, device and app attributes, location and insight from third party security solutions – to create policies that satisfy highly mobile security needs.

ClearPass works across any multivendor network by replacing outdated legacy AAA with context-aware policies and includes profiling, BYOD and guest onboarding, integration with MDM/EMM, firewalls, SIEM solutions, and scalability features to meet today’s evolving business needs.

Zero Touch Provisioning for Aruba Instant Access Points benefit from cloud-based management, with integrated controller functions, Adaptive Radio Management (ARM) and ClientMatch technology that ensure the wireless network is automatically optimised for reliability and superior performance. These devices are truly plug-n-play. IT simply connects the Instant APs to power and the network - the setup and configuration is automatic.