Aruba Launches New Mobile First Platform, Consumption Models Aimed At Recurring Revenue

Aruba Networks kept busy at its first Global Partner Conference as an HPE company – the wireless and networking company unveiled its Aruba Mobile First Platform and fresh flexible consumption models at the show.

The Mobile First Platform is built to provide third-party developers and businesses with new insight into their networks.

’Essentially what the Aruba Mobile First Platform is, is it’s about opening up, through mobile APIs, a whole rich set of insights,’ said Aruba Vice President Chris Kozup. ’Things like who you are, location, time of day, allowing us policy information for security.’

That way, partners, developers and customers can develop new services and applications to better serve end users.

Aruba also unveiled flexible network procurement models to help IT organizations keep up with the rapid pace of change in the market.

In the new models, refresh cycles run by the months, not years. It’s built for new, cutting-edge opportunities like the Internet of Things.

’This is also about making it easier for customers to no longer deploy assets for six to 10 years, but to also have the flexibility to actually have that in more real time. So as this rapid change is happening all around us, customers have the ability to say, ’You know what? I don’t want to make that investment in a fixed infrastructure,’’ Kozup said.

Both debuts play to the resounding call from partners for more opportunities to gain recurring revenue streams, Kozup added.