Publish Date : 27-Oct-2016
During he Aruba APAC Atmosphere 2016 conference held late last month in Singapore, Aruba Networks President Dominic Orr unveiled network-as-a-service, which supports the delivery of the firm's new Mobile First Platform.
The core applications on Aruba Networks' new Mobile First Platform are supported by its current network infrastructure which includes Wi-Fi, Bluetooth low energy (BLE), wired and WAN. The platform is comprised of network controls, network management, policy management, cloud networking, network analytics and location services. These applications supports the delivery of third-party IT services and enterprise applications forming a mobile apps ecosystem.
Available on Aruba's Mobile First Platform, examples of the IT services include Citrix, MobileIron (MDM and enterprise mobility services), splunk (operational intelligence), ArcSight (an HP company that provides cyber security), Okta (identity management and single sign-on), Check Point, Intel Security, Juniper, and Palo Alto Networks.
As for enterpises applications, the Platform also supports Skype for Business, AT&T, Aislelabs (enterprise mobile wallet marketing platform), kasada (cryptographic data firewall and our password-less authentication), RetailNext (in-store analytics), Envoy (visitor registration) and eventboard (visitor and room management).
Anthony Wai, sales engineering director of Asia Pacific, Aruba Networks (a HPE company) said, "The Gen-mobile has given rise to rapid IT forces like the internet of things (IoT) and mobility. This is not just about the use of next-generation devices, like the Wi-Fi-connected TV boxes like the Apple TV, but the applications on top."
He noted, "Many of the IT procurement decisions today are now user-driven. For example, the line of businesses (LoB) would first provide to their banking customers a banking application. They would then instruct IT to handle the infrastructure matters."
He said to catch up with the fast pace of new mobile apps development and delivery, and the increasingly shortened cycle of network infrastructure upgrades, IT and the other LoBs would benefit from a flexible network services procurement model, like network-as-a-service (NaaS).
He added, "NaaS enables the subscription of network infrastructure services using an opex model instead of a capex model. By subscribing instead of acquiring these network services, customers can benefit from the latest technologies, and need not budget a sum of capex to invest in the next round of network technology upgrades."
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