Introducing Aruba ESP, the industry’s
first cloud-native platform built for
the intelligent Edge
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company, has
introduced Aruba ESP (Edge
Services Platform), the industry’s first
AI-powered, cloud-native platform that
predicts and resolves problems at the
network edge before they happen.
Built on AIOps, Zero Trust network
security and a Unified Infrastructure for
campus, data centre, branch and remote
worker locations, Aruba ESP delivers
an automated, all-in-one platform that
continuously analyses data across
domains, ensures SLAs, identifies
anomalies and self-optimises, while
seeing and securing unknown devices
on the network. Aruba ESP is designed
to deliver a cloud experience at the
edge and can be consumed either as a
service in the cloud or on-premises, as
a managed service delivered through
Aruba partners or via Network-as-a-
Service through HPE GreenLake. Tailored
for varying economic requirements,
customers may also procure it with
flexible financing options via HPE
Financial Services.
The technology market undergoes
a major transition about once every
decade. The last two decades were
centred on delivering ubiquitous mobility
followed by the move to cloud-based
applications. We are now entering an
era of data analytics driven by IoT, AI
and automation, supported by compute
and modern networking to power a new
breed of applications and workloads
that work in concert with the cloud but
that operate at the edge. As a result,
enterprises are generating massive
amounts of unstructured data at the
edge which, if analysed and acted
upon properly, can be used to improve
efficiencies, enhance experiences and
enable new business outcomes. The
key to turning these real time insights
THE LAST TWO
DECADES WERE
CENTRED ON
DELIVERING
UBIQUITOUS
MOBILITY
FOLLOWED BY
THE MOVE TO
CLOUD-BASED
APPLICATIONS.
into meaningful actions is to analyse and
process this data at the point of origin –
the edge – where people, devices and
things connect to the digital world. This
ability to generate actionable insights
based on data is especially pertinent
today during this unprecedented time
in history where businesses, employees
and, subsequently, the corporate network
must adapt to rapidly evolving business
and workplace needs.
Utilising unstructured data at the edge
requires a network that leverages AI
via network telemetry to process that
data at a rate and volume beyond
what’s possible at human scale. It also
requires an infrastructure with an AIpowered
‘sixth sense’ that proactively
identifies impending issues, recommends
an accurate resolution and leverages
automation to turn that into logical
actions, all without manual intervention.
Through continued analysis of network,
user and device insights, Aruba ESP
turns information into knowledge, helping
organisations accelerate transformation
and maintain Business Continuity via a
single, cloud-native platform that can
reside either on-premises or in the cloud
and secures and unifies the infrastructure
across the enterprise.
“The intelligent Edge is the catalyst
that will spark limitless possibilities for
organisations and enterprises that want
to accelerate transformation and ensure
Business Continuity by leveraging their
technology investments as their greatest
asset,” said Keerti Melkote, President
of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company. “Built upon Aruba’s guiding
principles of connect, protect, analyse
and act, Aruba ESP is the culmination
of years of innovation, R&D, Aruba
ingenuity and, most importantly, input
from our valued customers whose honest
feedback and insightful perspective has
helped to make this platform a network
that knows.” ◊
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