Hewlett Packard Enterprise has expanded its HPE Aruba Networking Central platform, introducing AI-powered enhancements for multi-vendor network management, device monitoring, and improved automation. The updates include OpsRamp integration, expanded AI insights, and enhanced security observability to optimize network operations.
26 September 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced a significant expansion of its AI-driven network management platform, HPE Aruba Networking Central, by integrating new features and capabilities aimed at enhancing multi-vendor network oversight. The platform now includes integration with OpsRamp, enabling the monitoring of network devices from industry leaders like Cisco, Juniper Networks, and Palo Alto Networks. This advancement bolsters network observability and expands HPE’s AI-based insights to deliver comprehensive third-party device monitoring.
With an expanded network configuration engine and enhanced observability, the upgraded solution enables AI-driven network optimizations, improving overall performance and security. Mark Ablett, Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan at HPE Aruba Networking, stated, “The latest expansion of HPE Aruba Networking Central equips enterprises with advanced AI insights to optimize multi-vendor network management, offering greater visibility, automation, and performance.”
Acquired by HPE in 2023, OpsRamp further boosts network observability, enhancing monitoring across various devices like firewalls, switches, and routers. The integration reduces network blind spots, streamlines troubleshooting tasks, and simplifies common health monitoring practices.
In addition, HPE Aruba Networking Central introduces expanded Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) capabilities, integrating HPE Aruba Networking User Experience Insight (UXI) to monitor service-level agreements from a unified interface. This feature allows real-time monitoring of network performance from user to application, delivering seamless visibility.
For large-scale network deployments, the platform’s enhanced device management includes a unified configuration model across all HPE Aruba products, with additional hierarchical configuration capabilities and 90 new APIs to streamline complex operations. According to Keven McCammon, Global Head of Digital Infrastructure Services at Henkel Corporation, the new automation tools reduce global network deployment times from weeks to hours.
With three times more AI models trained in the past six months, HPE Aruba Networking Central now manages telemetry data from over 4.6 million network devices and 1.6 billion endpoints, representing significant AI-driven improvements in performance optimization, troubleshooting, and network management.
Earlier this year, HPE Aruba Networking integrated generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) into its platform, expanding AIOps capabilities. The 2024 enhancements also include AI-powered security monitoring, IoT threat detection, and network detection and response (NDR) capabilities.
HPE Aruba Networking Central is available as a cloud-based SaaS solution and as part of the HPE GreenLake Networking (NaaS) subscription. Public previews of the new AI Networking capabilities will begin in October 2024, with full third-party monitoring, UXI integration, and device configuration capabilities available by the end of the year.
