Aruba Unveils New Secure AI-Powered Solutions and Vision for the Reimagined Workplace
June 01 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New Approach to Working in 2020 and Beyond Uses
Aruba’s AI-powered, Cloud-Native Platform to Deliver Enterprise
Access and Enforce Safe Work Habits Tailored To Hybrid Work
Environments
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
unveiled a suite of innovative workplace solutions and a new vision
for three return to work scenarios – returning to the office and
venues, working from home, and ultimately, the office reimagined.
With Aruba’s AI-powered, cloud-native networking solutions as their
foundation, each scenario provides pragmatic steps organizations
can take today to expedite business recovery and implement contact
tracing and touchless solutions that enhance the health and
wellness of employees and visitors.
There’s no question that the new state of work will be much
different from office life prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The
mandate to shut down non-essential physical offices and businesses
tested the effectiveness of fully virtual workforces, which has
been successful when the right networking technologies and tools
are in place. We will return not to one, but to many kinds of
workplaces – traditional offices, homes, on the road – within which
our safety must be ensured, and between which we must move
seamlessly without retraining or compromise.
“The new fluid workplace requires contextual awareness,
adaptability and scalability on a global scale – all without
security gaps,” said Partha Narasimhan, CTO and HPE Senior Fellow
for Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “Throughout the
pandemic, Aruba’s AI-powered infrastructure has adapted to optimize
customers’ reimagined work environments at half a million customer
sites worldwide, with massive teleworkforces dispatched to work
from home, and for essential mobile workforces.”
Return to the Office and Venues
Traditional offices and buildings are relying on AI-powered
contact and location tracing tools to enable social and physical
distancing monitoring solutions that make the workplace safer for
employees, students, patients, customers, and fans. Through
Aruba-led innovations or implemented in concert with Aruba
Technology Partners, these solutions use IoT and Bluetooth radios
already built into Aruba access points and managed from a single
pane of glass. The solutions operate on customers’ existing Aruba
infrastructure, eliminating the need for rip and replace, and
leverage cloud-based applications that are easy to activate and
affordable to deploy.
- Contact and Location Tracing – Aruba will be releasing a
new set of native contact and location tracing tools for existing
Aruba infrastructure customers based on both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
This will be demonstrated at Aruba Atmosphere Digital on June 9,
2020. For expanded capabilities, Aruba Technology Partners AiRISTA
Flow, CXApp, Kiana Analytics, Modo Labs, and Skyfii integrate with
Aruba infrastructures to monitor social distancing and group sizes,
and generate contract tracing trees of potentially exposed
individuals.
- Contactless Visitor Management – In the new work
environment, organizations are looking to avoid physical contact
with front desk receptionists or using shared, self-service tablets
for check-in. Aruba and its digital workplace partners, such as
Envoy, allow pre-registration, automated host notification, and
auto-generated individualized visitor Wi-Fi credentials – all with
zero human-to-human contact.
- Video and AI-based Health Monitoring - Proactively
identifying and assisting COVID-infected guests and employees keeps
everyone in the workplace safer. HPE Pointnext and Aruba’s
technology partners can deliver and support contactless
thermographic solutions that measure forehead temperature of groups
of people simultaneously. Ideal for lobbies and other high traffic
areas, the solution incorporates automated voice response and
interfaces with access control portals.
Working from Home
An effective long-term work-from-home solution has to deliver a
secure, enterprise-like experience that enhances efficiency,
creativity, and productivity. Unlike solutions that use repurposed
consumer network equipment, Aruba provides enterprise-class
telework hardware coupled with plug-and-play installation,
identity-based security, and cloud native management for rapid,
simple and scalable deployment. Field-proven since 2008, Aruba’s
work-from-home solutions scale to accommodate organizations of any
size, and are available with FIPS 140-2 validation for
defense-related telework.
- Secure Remote Access to Business-Critical Resources –
Aruba Remote Access Points (RAPs) and gateways extend access to
enterprise applications and services hosted on-premises or in the
public cloud, anywhere employees work. Compatible with broadband
and cellular networks, RAPs provide both Ethernet and wireless
connectivity so employees can use IP phones, VDI terminals, trading
consoles, and mobile devices at remote locations with the same
security and quality of service they enjoy in the office.
- Seamless, Secure Access While on the Road – Aruba
Virtual Intranet Access (VIA) VPN software client provides secure
connectivity to laptops, phones, and tablets. Unlike other VPN
solutions that require the customer to set up additional layers of
protection, VIA includes an embedded firewall that intelligently
segments the traffic and enforces the security policies down to
each user.
“For too long organizations have treated working locations as a
binary choice – we’re either assigned to an office or are remote
workers,” said Ryan Anderson, VP of Digital Innovation for Herman
Miller. “The current requirement to work remotely has blown the
doors open for a new hybrid workplace reality that experience
designers and technologists alike need to account for in the
future. A comfortable, secure and reliable work-from-home setting
will be a key requirement for this new era.”
The Office Reimagined
The recent trend for the modern corporate office – to deliver
open, collaborative work spaces – will soon need to be revalidated.
Moving forward, organizations are considering lasting changes in
office layout and frequency of employee visits that are more
on-demand and modular than ever before. This type of
next-generation space poses challenges to traditional networking
and security infrastructure intended for a static work
environment.
The office will become increasingly smart using Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth, IoT sensors, and other capabilities that were invested
in during the COVID-19 reopening phase, but then may be repurposed
to provide employee experience-enhancing applications, as well as
security and crisis capabilities, should any type of health or
other emergency resurface. To help customers through this office
and workstyle transformation, Aruba has established relationships
with key leaders in the field of office architecture, design, and
furnishings, such as Herman Miller, whose products, in conjunction
with Aruba’s AI-powered infrastructure, can help customers redefine
next generation spaces. For more information read: Strategies for
Returning to the Workplace after COVID-19
To experience what Aruba has to offer for the Reimagined
Workplace and the Intelligent Edge, join us starting June 9, 2020
for Aruba Atmosphere Digital:
https://www.arubanetworks.com/atmosphere/
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a leading
provider of secure, intelligent networks that enable customers to
thrive and deliver amazing digital experiences in the mobile, IoT
and cloud era. We are changing the rules of networking to make it
simple for IT and organizations to bridge the physical and digital
worlds at the Edge.
To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com. For
real-time news updates, follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook, and
for the latest technical discussions on mobility and Aruba
products, visit the Airheads Community at
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Media Contact: Pavel Radda Aruba, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company +1-408-398-6668 pavel.radda@hpe.com
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