Benefits of Cloud-Based Network Management

For many businesses, large and small, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a turning point in their adoption of cloud-based solutions.
Gartner predicts that by 2025, more than half of enterprise IT spending across major market industries will be in the cloud.^[1]

As the cloud plays a crucial role in providing business resilience and supporting agility, the role of the network is also becoming increasingly crucial. Therefore, without a modern network that supports the cloud, it is difficult to take advantage of its innovative benefits.

IT organizations must now consider how to manage their networks to keep pace with the changing market.
Perhaps a cloud-based approach will help us find the answer.

Four Challenges in Managing Modern Networks

• Hybrid work environment: According to Gartner, if we change our work style to commuting and eliminating remote work like before the pandemic, Up to 39%There is a risk of loss of manpower.^[2] Supporting a secure and efficient hybrid work environment is now the biggest challenge for IT teams.
• complex networksNetworks are growing in size and complexity. This leads to manual errors, fatigue caused by multiple alarms, and downtime due to the separate management tools operating independently.
• Compliance and Security: With the rapid deployment of cloud-based services and the massive deployment of IoT devices during the pandemic, network security has become more risky and challenging than ever.
• Lack of talent: Hiring and retaining skilled networking professionals is a very challenging time. Companies that responded that they have no difficulty hiring and retaining skilled networking professionals Only 12.5%It's just that.^[3]

Many network operations professionals now believe that better network management tools could cut network-related issues by nearly half.^[4]

What are the benefits of cloud-based network management?

Cloud-based network management solutions have recently gained significant attention as enterprises consolidate management tools to improve efficiency and reduce costs. In fact, IDC predicts that half of new network deployment projects will rely on cloud-based network management.

Aruba Central – Aruba's cloud-based network management solutionby,
A powerful solution that provides single visibility and control over all aspects of your wired and wireless networks, WANs, and VPNs across campus environments, branches, remote offices, and data centers.

Built on a modern, cloud-native, microservices-based architecture, Aruba Central is an AI-driven solution that unifies the management of all network infrastructure, simplifying IT operations, increasing agility, reducing costs, and minimizing risk.

Benefit 1: Increased agility

• Zero Touch Provisioning: Flexible options and intuitive installer wizard guides help you speed up the onboarding, configuration management, and provisioning process of your network devices.
• Single management screen: Your IT department only needs to prepare and validate the configuration change once, and then immediately apply the new settings to all devices across your network, eliminating the need to configure and manage each device individually.
• Programming features: Easily integrate and integrate with other tools in your technology stack, such as ServiceNow, Ansible, and Slack, through open APIs, webhooks, and more.

Benefit 2: Increased Efficiency

• AIOps and Automation: Eliminate manual troubleshooting, reduce average time to resolve common network issues by up to 90%, and increase network capacity by up to 25% without adding additional devices through peer-based configuration optimization.
• User Experience Monitoring: Provides application performance assurance and rapid troubleshooting for users and IoT devices through Aruba UXI sensors that simulate real user activities based on administrator-defined test scenarios.
• Natural language search: Administrators can quickly search and find relevant contextual information using natural language, enabling them to quickly triage issues.

Benefit 3: Cost savings

• Integrated management: By managing wired, wireless, and WAN networks in an integrated manner, you can reduce separate management and licensing costs associated with introducing multiple management tools and additional appliances.
• Training and Development: Network departments can reduce training and development costs because they do not need to learn multiple management tools or invest in patches and maintenance for those solutions.
• Cost of downtime: AI-based proactive problem identification and root cause analysis can reduce network downtime and engineer deployment costs before users are impacted.

Benefit 4: Minimizing Risk

• AI-based IoT visualization: Eliminate network blind spots and reduce the risk of cyberattacks by accurately identifying and profiling difficult-to-detect IoT devices using machine learning models.
• Simple policy management: Simplify policy management and easily adopt a zero-trust security model across global sites using overlays based on widely used standard protocols such as EVPN/VXLAN.
• High availability: High availability is achieved through live firmware upgrades that can be scheduled during off-peak hours. This eliminates potential downtime by reducing maintenance time and ensuring continuous operation.

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Over 120,000 customers worldwide are already using Aruba Central, significantly improving their network management and operations.
According to a TechValidate survey, one-third of Aruba Central customers reported cutting their network management costs in half compared to before, and two-thirds reported being able to resolve network and user issues at least 50% faster.

Aruba Central is the essential solution to modernize your network and evolve your management strategy.
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※ References:
[1] Enterprise IT Spending, Gartner, Feb 2022
[2] 9 Future of Work Trends Post Covid-19, Gartner, Jun 2022
[3], [4] Network Management Megatrends 2022, EMA, April 2022