By Dave Anthony
This year marks a decade in the existence of the
smartphone. This period has revolutionised our relationship to information.
Our expectation in our private lives is for whatever information we want, where
ever and whenever we want it. This expectation has become a demand, one that
hardware and software vendors have responded to, providing ever greater tools
for living and enjoyment.
This demand is spreading into all aspects of our lives.
Accessibility and flexibility is becoming the norm at work. The anticipation by
2020 is that more people will be connecting wirelessly than by wire in
business. Not only does this mean that hardware needs to be of a higher
performance and feature level to meet this increased data requirement, but the
server, storage and networking infrastructure needs significantly more advanced
levels of security to safeguard this new way of working.
Business can more readily afford this extra investment as
they can see the returns in the short term. One area that traditionally
struggles in this regard is education. For our society to fully benefit from
this increasing availability and adaptability of knowledge, it stands to reason
that those in education are most in need of access.
HPE meet this demand in education at the correct price point
through its Aruba networking portfolio.
Aruba utilises the same wireless access point hardware range
in deployments from the smallest of small businesses to the largest of
enterprise networks. The differences between the two extremes is down to how it
is provisioned. By using the Aruba Instant solution, all performance tweaking,
management and security features are housed on the access points themselves, as
opposed to being distributed amongst different appliances, as in more complex
deployments. Whilst the option exists for full in depth configuration, by
default there is a simple, visually informative, GUI which enable a novice to
set up a highly performing secure network within minutes and continue to
monitor and adapt it as necessary.
In education establishments this means that teachers and
pupils have full access to the latest, most informative, immersive and
entertaining applications however they need it. This is achieved with the
performance and security of enterprise grade products, but without the
traditional overhead and ongoing costs. Existing IT staff can easily deploy and
run the solution, remotely if necessary, without extensive training, further
saving costs.
The Aruba Instant solution is deployed nationwide in
schools, hospitality outlets and even our largest supermarket brands.
As with the smart phone, this technology is now
democratised. Everyone can benefit from it, enriching ours, and our children’s
futures.
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