What exactly is GenMobile and its affect on how companies do business?

“It’s a generation that wants to work from anywhere, anytime, switching back and forth between personal and professional life, and Aruba feels like it’s here to stay,” Sylvia Hooks, senior director of Americas Field Marketing at Aruba Networks, Inc., told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media production team during HP Discover Las Vegas 2015. Hooks discussed why comprehensive, secure wireless coverage is critical in today’s workplace.

Pacific Life Insurance Co.’s Alex Munro, AVP of Corporate IT Enterprise Technologies, also joined theCUBE to provide a customer perspective on the benefits received from the recent acquisition of Aruba by HP. Munro said the acquisition came “right at the perfect time for us. We are leveraging tools both from Aruba and HP, and it’s just been a good experience.”

Adapting networks, apps and IT to new workforce demands

Hooks told theCUBE that as new technologies enable a mobile workplace, companies are faced with the challenges of providing coverage and security on aging networks that were not designed to power multiple devices. Aruba’s customers are asking: “How do we adapt our network, our apps, and our IT to the new demands of our workforce?”

Munro described a case scenario from Pacific Life where they furnished iPads for employee use only to discover that its network was inadequate. “We learned the hard way that we had to build out the network infrastructure with the capacity and the security,” he said.

Munro and Hooks agreed that security and flexibility are key factors, with the ability to provide differing levels of access to management, hourly employees and visitors key. As Hooks told theCUBE: “I think the flexibility of the infrastructure is important in this idea-based economy. Every company has multiple scenarios.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of HP Discover Las Vegas 2015.

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