Hewlett
Packard Enterprise 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 customers' and partners' 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. To capture this potential, organizations need to implement an 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.
"The
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," said Keerti Melkote, founder and
president, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. "Today, 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."
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-powered analytics and assurance capabilities based on Aruba NetInsight and User Experience Insight allow
IT professionals to resolve infrastructure problems quickly before they
impact the organization. Now integrated into the Aruba Central
cloud-based platform, Aruba's Analytics and Assurance capabilities
deliver IT professionals a way to quickly remediate intermittent network
issues while also proactively identifying how to optimize customers'
infrastructures to ensure optimal experiences.
- Software-defined branch (SD-Branch) and SD-WAN, 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 new SD-WAN Orchestrator 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 new SaaS prioritization 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, Aruba ClearPass Device Insight 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 Aruba's dynamic segmentation security capabilities, networking and security teams can automate unique policy enforcement down to each device and user.
- New network management workflow 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 via HPE GreenLake for Aruba 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 turnkey edge-to-cloud solutions in
collaboration with key industry partners:
- The integration of ABB Ability Smart Sensor technology with Aruba access points 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.
- Jointly developed by ABB, HPE, Microsoft and Rittal, the Secure Edge Data Center for Microsoft Azure Stack is the industry's first enterprise-grade edge appliance for Microsoft Azure Stack,
enabling real-time intelligence and action in harsh industrial
environments, while providing seamless integration with Microsoft Azure.
The appliance provides IP55-rated environmental protection, cooling, redundant power supply and distribution and automated management - allowing customers to run pre-configured, high-end enterprise applications in locations such as factories or oil rigs.
- HPE Edgeline IoT Quick Connect 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 the HPE Edgeline OT Link Platform, which connects OT devices, the HPE Edgeline EL300 Converged Edge System and Microsoft Azure IoT, a collection of cloud services to connect, monitor and control IoT assets.
- Fast Start Condition Monitoring enables
customers to set up condition monitoring within 90 days to deliver
performance and availability of their OT equipment. An end-to-end
solution implemented by HPE Pointnext Services, Fast Start Condition Monitoring 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 PTC's ThingWorx Industrial IoT platform.
Investing in partner ecosystem and future technologies to accelerate Intelligent Edge adoption
The
newly established Intelligent Edge and IoT CoE & Lab provides
critical capabilities and technologies to HPE's partners and customers
to accelerate Intelligent Edge adoption. It will guide partner
activities, M&A and research in the following areas:
- Knowledge transfer to HPE's channel partners to accelerate market adoption of the Intelligent Edge with
the Channel to Edge Institute (CEI), a program which helps HPE's
channel partners gain the required expertise to effectively recommend,
sell, implement and manage Intelligent Edge solutions for their
customers. The CEI provides training on Intelligent Edge use cases and
business cases and will deploy joint go-to-market programs with HPE's
channel and ecosystem partners.
- Research
programs to drive rapid commercialization of Intelligent Edge
technologies that simplify edge-to-cloud management and OT-IT
convergence and enable new use cases - this includes,
among others, a unified provisioning, policy and security management
across wired networks, Wi-Fi and 5G; the next generation of HPE's
first-of-a-kind HPE Edgeline Converged Edge Systems and HPE Edgeline OT
Link Platform; and real-time video analytics for quality, security and
customer experience applications.
Availability
- Initial enhancements for Aruba Central 2.5 are available starting in July 2019
- The integration of ABB Ability Smart Sensor technology with Aruba access points will be available end of 2019
- The
Secure Edge Data Center for Microsoft Azure Stack is now available with
IEC certification and will be available with UL certification in August
2019
- HPE Edgeline IoT Quick Connect will be available in July 2019
- Fast
Start Condition Monitoring will be available in France and Netherlands
in July 2019 and will be generally available by end of 2019