As organisations pursue digital transformation initiatives, network modernisation is critical for achieving new business outcomes. In line with this, Aruba – a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) with AIOps capabilities to reduce the time spent on manual tasks such as network troubleshooting, performance tuning, and Zero Trust/SASE security enforcement.
With the growth of hybrid work, new user engagement models, and challenges resulting from the ‘Great Resignation’ and widening skills gaps, IT teams must find ways to achieve greater efficiencies. Powerful analytics, AI-based insights, and automation supplement – not replace – networking teams by reducing manual tasks so they can focus on more strategic and higher-value projects.
The new AI-powered IT efficiency features include Aruba Client Insight, which can automatically identify each endpoint connecting to the network with up to 99 percent accuracy, which is especially important as increasing numbers of IoT devices are added to networks, sometimes without approval from IT. This allows organisations to better understand what’s on their networks, automate access privileges, and monitor the behaviour of each client’s traffic flows to more rapidly spot attacks and take action.
It also has an AI-powered firmware recommender, which provides IT teams with the best version of firmware to run for the wireless access points in their environments – regardless of model numbers.
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The platform also leverages Aruba’s AI Assist feature and Aruba Support outreach to recognise possible hardware and software infrastructure issues for preemptive engagement that can consist of firmware upgrades or recommended hardware replacement.
