Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch With Pensando
Delivers Advanced, Scalable Network and Security Services for
Enterprise Data Centers
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (NYSE: HPE), today
introduced the industry's first Distributed Services Switch
enabling enterprises to deploy software-defined stateful services
where data is created and processed, eliminating legacy appliances
and host software needed to build the hybrid clouds demanded by
modern applications and IT organizations.
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The Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch
represents a new category of data center switches that combines
best-of-breed Aruba data center L2/3 switching with the industry's
only, fully programmable DPU (Pensando Elba) to deliver stateful
software-defined services inline, at scale, with wire-rate
performance and orders of magnitude scale and performance
improvements over traditional data center L2/3 switches at a
fraction of their TCO. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Markets in transition create new opportunities for disruption.
As the Cloud moves to the Edge, distributed services are disrupting
everything from AI/ML, to 5G and virtualization,” said John
Chambers, chairman of Pensando, CEO of JC2 Ventures, and former CEO
of Cisco Systems. “This new category – the Distributed Services
Switch, enabled by Pensando software-in-silicon, makes the process
of deploying distributed services, previously only available to
hyperscalers like AWS, in the enterprise both simple and more
cost-effective. By eliminating legacy appliances and host software,
enterprises can deliver 100x the scale and 10x the performance at
1/3 the TCO of traditional approaches.”
The Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch represents a new category of
data center switches that combines best-of-breed Aruba data center
L2/3 switching with the industry's only, fully programmable DPU
(Pensando Elba) to deliver stateful software-defined services
inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of
magnitude scale and performance improvements over traditional data
center L2/3 switches at a fraction of their TCO.
”Aruba and Pensando have enabled the industry’s first
distributed services architecture that allows enterprises to create
and operate network infrastructures that perform and scale just
like the hyperscale infrastructure giants,” said Alan Weckel,
founder and technology analyst at 650 Group. “We believe this is an
emerging industry category, distinguished from all others, that
will grow over time. New and emerging workloads like AI/ML will
drive the ecosystem towards comparable solutions based on
innovative, distributed services principles.”
Rethinking Today’s Network Services Model
While data center networking has evolved over the past decade
providing higher performing 25/100/400G leaf-spine topologies to
address the volume and velocity of emerging application
architectures, security and services architectures have not.
With the explosive growth of east-west traffic in the data
center, centralized security appliances are proving inefficient,
expensive and difficult to manage. Simply put, hair-pinning traffic
to an appliance sitting at the data center edge introduces heavy
performance, cost and operational penalties.
This problem is further exacerbated by microservices-based
applications, where traffic may not even need to leave a physical
host to go from one service to another. This means some application
traffic may never be inspected by a hardware firewall, IPS, or
other security devices, leaving enterprises vulnerable to attack
from within the enterprise itself.
Moving to a New, Distributed Services Architecture
The Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch with Pensando provides an
entirely new class of switching solution to overcome the
limitations of legacy architectures. The Aruba CX 10000 will allow
operators to extend industry standard leaf-spine networking with
distributed stateful segmentation, east-west firewalling, NAT,
encryption, and telemetry services – all delivered inline, all the
time, on every access port, closer to where critical enterprise
applications run.
The solution delivers a unique blend of performance, scale and
automation for distributing advanced networking and security
services where it is impractical and costly to force traffic back
and forth across the network to a centralized policy enforcement
point. Instead, enterprises can now simply apply these services at
the network access layer edge where the applications are running.
Key initial use cases include:
- On-premises Enterprise Data Centers and Private Cloud
Traditional data center architectures with centralized,
hardware-based security appliances are being pushed to their
breaking point – imposing performance, agility, and cost burdens
that are not sustainable. The Aruba CX 10000 delivers a compelling
architecture to distribute advanced services to the data center
edge with unified network and security automation and policy
management. This new solution optimizes network bandwidth and
performance by not having to hair-pin local traffic to a
centralized chokepoint, helping improve security posture while
limiting appliance sprawl, complexity and cost.
- Co-location Edge – Securely Interconnecting Cloud
Providers The cost of encrypting access to the public cloud
using traditional appliances is exorbitant. Many customers have a
compliance mandate to encrypt all access to public cloud
resources. The Aruba CX 10000 provides edge routing, line-rate
encryption, firewall and NAT, with end-to-end telemetry for public
cloud dedicated connections from either on-premises or co-location
data centers. This solution radically lowers the total cost of
ownership, provides an optimized security architecture and
reduces an organization’s IT blast radius and risk.
Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) was designed to unify,
automate and secure all network edge services across domains
including remote, branch, campus and data center. The Aruba CX
10000 helps customers expand a Zero Trust Network Architecture
deeper into the data center, to the network-server edge, delivering
800G E-W Stateful Services across every switch port, dramatically
scaling and strengthening the security of critical applications and
workloads.
“We are excited that Aruba has brought the Distributed Services
approach to the next level by elevating it from the server to the
Top-of-Rack networking layer,” said John Galatea, vice president of
Sales at Dasher Technologies, an Aruba Platinum Partner. “We
believe our clients will benefit from the enhanced granular
security and visibility provided by the Aruba CX 10000 while
optimizing network and infrastructure resources. This architecture
allows our clients to overcome the limitations of legacy solutions
by moving security closer to where applications and workloads are
being processed.”
Extending the HPE/Pensando Relationship
This new solution complements the previously announced Pensando
Distributed Services Platform (DSP) for HPE Servers, delivered as a
factory option in HPE ProLiant servers, HPE Apollo systems, and HPE
Edgeline Converged Edge systems.
The Aruba CX 10000 extends the implementation of these
intelligent services into the data center network fabric,
addressing a wider range of use cases including brownfield
deployments or infrastructure agnostic/heterogeneous environments
to complement or augment SmartNIC deployments.
“Today’s announcement further extends the partnership between
HPE and Pensando – by incorporating Distributed Services from
Pensando into the industry-leading Aruba switching platform, the
elimination of legacy technologies needed to build a zero-trust
private cloud has never been easier or more cost-effective,” said
Prem Jain, CEO at Pensando Systems. “I look forward to continuing
our relationship and to bringing additional solutions to
market.”
As part of the joint relationship, Pensando also gains access to
HPE’s vast patent portfolio through its Defensive Patent Purchase
Program.
To learn more about the Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch with
Pensando and how it will enable the next evolution in switching
architecture, tune into the virtual event:
https://hpe.events.cube365.net/hpe/aruba-pensando
Pricing and Availability
The Aruba CX 10000 will be generally available in January 2022
with pricing starting at $45,000 USD which will include accelerated
Stateful Firewall, Zero Trust Segmentation, ERSPAN, Telemetry, and
DDoS protection.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about data center modernization
- Blog: The Next Evolution of Switching Architecture is Here
About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the global
leader in secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions
that use AI to automate the network, while harnessing data to drive
powerful business outcomes. With Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform)
and as-a-service options, Aruba takes a cloud-native approach to
helping customers meet their connectivity, security, and financial
requirements across campus, branch, data center, and remote worker
environments, covering all aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide
area networking (WAN).
To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com. For
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