Aruba Central

Mottram attributed HPE’s Intelligent Edge segment revenue growth partially to the Aruba Central platform. The cloud-based platform allows customers and partners to provision and manage their Aruba products.

Mottram said Aruba Central, which is part of the HPE Greenlake family, helps simplify life for customers and set HPE apart.

“Some of our competitors have a different management platform for different products,” he said. “We have a common platform for all of our products.”

Unified management platforms have become a more hotly demanded feature. Consider Cisco, which this summer made its Meraki platform available to provision and manage its Catalyst switch series and is promising to build more integrations.