Data, data everywhere - Securing the Internet of Things Q+A

By Lee Prior & Paul Harman






















Take a look around the typical home 10 years ago and you could probably count the number of devices connected to the internet on the fingers of one hand for the most part, but take a look around that same home today and you’re likely to run out fingers before you run out of devices. Computers, Phones, Games Consoles, TV’s even ligtbulbs, thermostats and doorbells in some cases, and these are going to be joined by a whole host of other things in the coming months and years.

Arista - The Master of One

By David Anthony

HPE’s partnership with Arista is the latest stage in the rebalancing of their switching portfolio. Arista’s products focus exclusively on ultra-low latency and software defined data centre switching, ideal for financial services and service provider networks. This is the perfect complement to HPE’s Comware operating system switch range for the traditional, on premise, data centre and Aruba at the ever-evolving intelligent edge.

What makes Arista stand out in these sectors? It concentrates exclusively on that end of the market, focussing all its resources there. Arista has never tried to be a Jack-Of-All-Trades, it just masters one. Arista switches use two specific features to achieve this, EOS and SysDB.

Keep learning with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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.

Monetising Mobility

By Lee Prior

It’s not often in life you have a genuine “Eureka moment” but I had one whilst attending an ‘Accelerate your growth’ training session at HPE in Bracknell.

Being a Marketing person you might ask yourself “what was I doing at a sales training event?” So let me cover that off up front…I was spying, there I said it. I wanted to see how HPE delivered content to the Channel so that I could pick up some tips, make some contacts and perhaps even learn a thing or two about the products and services on offer, and boy did I learn!

As with most things in life familiarity does breed a certain level of…well if not contempt, then at least a lack of appreciation, and as somebody that writes and talks about IT in general and HPE in particular on a daily basis, I can be accused of sometimes losing sight of what the technology we eulogise about can do for businesses in the real world.

Take advantage of the growth for mobile and IoT with Aruba partner-ready solutions

By Lee Prior

The HPE Partner Ready for Networking program delivers a best-in-class program that enables you to meet all of your customers’ connectivity needs and take advantage of the growth for mobile and IoT, with  partner-ready solutions in Wired, Wi-Fi, BLE and WAN. The ability for partners to move quickly and be responsive to their customers is what has drove one of the core principles of the program, which is to simplify and make it easier to partner with Aruba.

Starting with tools that drive awareness and attract new business, to straightforward deal numbers that help you understand your profitability throughout the sales cycle, and easily-accessed sales and technical training that will help you to become the trusted advisor to your customers for next-generation edge networks.

Sound good to you? Then take a look at the new HPE Aruba Partner Ready For Networking Program which will tell you everything you need to know to take advantage of this great initiative.

If you have any questions the Westcoast team are ready and waiting to help you. Simply call us on 0118 912 6000 or email sales@westcoast.co.uk

Westcoast appointed as distributor of HPE Aruba Networking Solutions

Westcoast has further strengthened its relationship with Hewlett Packard Enterprise after being newly appointed as a distributor for the recently acquired Aruba next generation networking solutions.

Westcoast has been unveiled as an Aruba exclusive distributor after finishing 2015 as HPE’s strongest distributor