Based on recent trends, which common challenge can HPE Aruba Networking help customers overcome?
Answer : C
HPE Aruba Networking helps customers overcome the challenges of enabling hybrid work, where employees need to access applications securely from home or anywhere. HPE Aruba Networking offers solutions such as Remote Access Points, Virtual Intranet Access, and EdgeConnect SD-WAN that provide seamless, reliable, and secure connectivity for remote workers12.
You are discussing a network upgrade with a mid-sized customer. The customer is worried about future-proofing the network. What should you explain about HPE Aruba Networking ESP?
Answer : C
HPE Aruba Networking ESP (Edge Services Platform) is a cloud-native platform that unifies infrastructure, security, policies, and AI-powered management across all network domains. It is designed to scale from small to large deployments, and to support customers' evolving business needs and technologies. HPE Aruba Networking Central is the single pane of glass for managing Aruba ESP, and it provides a simple, secure, and cost-effective way to manage and monitor Aruba wired, wireless, and SD-WAN infrastructure, as well as Aruba security and location services. Customers can use the same HPE Aruba Networking Central platform to manage their network regardless of the size, complexity, or location of their network.
* Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 12: ''Aruba ESP is a cloud-native platform that unifies infrastructure, security, policies, and AI-powered management across all network domains. It is designed to scale from small to large deployments, and to support customers' evolving business needs and technologies.''
* Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 13: ''Aruba Central is the cloud-native, single pane of glass for managing Aruba ESP. It provides a simple, secure, and cost-effective way to manage and monitor Aruba wired, wireless, and SD-WAN infrastructure, as well as Aruba security and location services.''
* Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) | HPE Aruba Networking: ''Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) | HPE Aruba Networking Home / Solutions / Aruba ESP Connect and secure your edges with a single unified platform HPE Aruba Networking Edge Services Platform (ESP) is a network architecture that unifies infrastructure, security, policies, and AI-powered management across all your edges. Read the solution brief Challenges Benefits How it works Customers Resources Apply consistent security policies across your network From highly confidential to top secret environments, ESP delivers secure connectivity from edge to cloud, leveraging Zero Trust and SASE security. Global policy orchestration, granular visibility, and device profiling ensure Zero Trust Unified SASE (SD-WAN & SSE) capabilities optimize QoS, routing, and traffic inspection Awarded various Common Criteria, FIPS-140 and FedRAMP certifications 150+ third party security integrations (i.e., FW, SSE, UEM, SIEM) Get the eBook Harness the potential of your Edge locations Advance the priorities of your business today and tomorrow with a network architecture that is: Unified AI-powered IT Secure Agile Exploring the ROI of Cloud-managed Networking with Aruba Central IT teams face higher levels of network complexity due to work-from-home initiatives, more IoT devices, and new cloud applications. Networks are becoming harder to troubleshoot, while the use of siloed management tools inhibits IT agility and increases rick of errors or downtime. Explore the infographic Read the blog Powering Hybrid Work in 2023 Explore Leesman data-driven insights into optimizing modern work and workplaces. Learn why hybrid work is here to stay, how office space investments are changing, and what IT infrastructure and operations are increasingly agile to keep pace with a dynamic workplace environment. Read the eBook Get the full report HPE (Aruba) is again named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and WLAN Infrastructure For the 17 th consecutive time, HPE (Aruba) has been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure. Get the report Edge transformation in action Convert your edge data into new business outcomes HPE Aruba Networking ESP is a cloud-native architecture built for the Intelligent Edge. Hover over the numbers to learn how each element helps you gain deeper insights into the potential of your Edge data. Related resources Aruba ESP and IoT Aruba ESP can help you accelerate digital transformation, with a future-proof hyper-aware network that combines IT and IoT on a single platform. Watch the video Network as a Service enables flexible consumption of secure and agile enterprise networks As an IDC analyst paper sponsored by Aruba, this paper provides insights into NaaS today based on a survey of over 1000 North American IT and networking professionals and their plans around the implementation and usage of NaaS. Read the whitepaper A network that's always protected, everywhere Aruba ESP increases protection levels while simplifying operations by applying the principles of Edge-to-cloud security, featuring a built-in foundation for Zero Trust and SASE frameworks.''
How does selling HPE GreenLake for Aruba solutions benefit Channel selling partners?
Answer : D
HPE GreenLake for Aruba is a network-as-a-service (NaaS) solution that enables customers to consume HPE Aruba Networking solutions as a service with HPE GreenLake for Networking. It provides customers with the flexibility, scalability, and security of a cloud-like experience, while reducing capital expenditures and operational costs1. For channel selling partners, HPE GreenLake for Aruba benefits them by providing them with a new source of income by increasing their annual recurring revenue, as well as unlocking new revenue and margin opportunities by offering value-added services to their customers23.
You are meeting with a retailer, which has many small branches and is rapidly growing. What is one benefit of HPE Aruba Networking ESP solutions for this customer?
Answer : D
HPE Aruba Networking ESP solutions are designed to simplify and accelerate the deployment and management of branch networks. They enable non-IT experts to install HPE Aruba Networking devices such as access points, switches, and gateways at new sites, and HPE Aruba Networking Central will automatically discover and configure them using zero-touch provisioning12. This reduces the time and cost of setting up new branches, and ensures consistent and secure network policies across all sites3.
You are discussing HPE Aruba Networking ESP (Edge Services Platform) solutions with a customer. This customer has mentioned supporting remote and hybrid workers as a key business
initiative. What benefit of HPE Aruba Networking solutions should you emphasize?
Answer : D
HPE Aruba Networking ESP (Edge Services Platform) solutions enable customers to deliver a consistent and secure network experience to remote and hybrid workers, regardless of their location or device. By using HPE Aruba Networking Central, customers can define and enforce granular, role-based policies that are automatically applied across the network, from the edge to the cloud. This simplifies network management and enhances security and compliance.
* Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 12: ''Aruba ESP enables IT to deliver a consistent and secure network experience to remote and hybrid workers, regardless of their location or device.''
* Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 13: ''Aruba Central is the cloud-native, single pane of glass for managing Aruba ESP. It provides a simple, secure, and cost-effective way to manage and monitor Aruba wired, wireless, and SD-WAN infrastructure, as well as Aruba security and location services.''
* Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 14: ''Aruba Policy Enforcement Firewall (PEF) is a key component of Aruba ESP that provides granular, role-based access control and security for wired and wireless networks. PEF enables IT to define and enforce policies based on user identity, device type, location, time, and application, across the network from the edge to the cloud.''
What is one distinguishing benefit of HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer?
Answer : B
HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer is an intelligent, API-based, software-defined networking (SDN) orchestration solution that simplifies and accelerates leaf-spine network provisioning and day-to-day operations across rack-scale compute and storage1. It enables IT staff to manage a discrete set of switches as a single networking fabric, and to automate workflows and integrate with third-party frameworks2.
You are meeting with a customer's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and want to open a discovery conversation about HPE Aruba Networking Edge-to-Cloud Security solutions. What is
one topic you should discuss?
Answer : B
HPE Aruba Networking Edge-to-Cloud Security solutions enable customers to automate and simplify network security operations and enhance Zero Trust protection across all network domains. By using HPE Aruba Networking Central NetConductor, customers can orchestrate and enforce granular, role-based policies that are consistent and aligned with business intent, regardless of where users and devices connect. This reduces the risk of human errors, misconfigurations, and security breaches that can result from manually defined and managed policies.
* Selling HPE Aruba Networking Solutions, Rev.23.11, page 17: ''Aruba Central NetConductor is a cloud-native network security service that automates and accelerates networking and policy orchestration across all network domains. It enables customers to define and enforce granular, role-based policies that are consistent and aligned with business intent, regardless of where users and devices connect.''
* Edge-to-cloud, Zero Trust, and SASE security | HPE Aruba Networking: ''Aruba Central NetConductor automatically configures infrastructure to deliver optimal network performance while enforcing granular access control security policies that are the foundation of Zero Trust and SASE architectures.''
* HPE Aruba Networking Central NetConductor: Automate and Accelerate Networking and Policy Orchestration: ''Aruba Central NetConductor eliminates the need for manual configuration and management of network policies, which can be error-prone, time-consuming, and inconsistent across network domains. It also reduces the risk of security breaches and compliance violations that can result from misconfigurations and gaps in policy enforcement.''