Through its internet of things, on-premises access and network flavors, edge computing has become the new standard for improving the response times and bandwidth needs of the enterprise at large.

A new frontier, called “Intelligent Edge,” will allow companies to swiftly adapt to changing networking needs — among other benefits.

“We’re focused on providing technology to customers that sit out at the edge, and typically the edge would be any location out of the data center or out of the cloud,” said Phil Mottram (pictured, left), president of intelligent edge at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “We’re really talking about technology to connect both people and devices back to systems and technology throughout an organization.”

Mottram and David Hughes (pictured, right), chief product and technology officer at Aruba, spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante and John Furrier at the HPE Discover 2022 event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the agile networking standard at Aruba that is driven by technologies like artificial intelligence. (* Disclosure below.)

Building distributed but secure workspaces

A large swathe of Aruba’s customers require systems that are uniformly robust and effective, irrespective of the employee or user’s location, according to Hughes. However, the distributed nature should not pose a security risk in itself.

“They don’t want those devices to be a weak point where someone breaks into one device and moves laterally across the network,” he explained. “They want to have this great experience for their customers and their users but also make sure that they’re not compromising security in any way. So, it’s about getting that balance between ease of use and security.”

With the wide threat surface area that distributed edge networks can produce, the security side of things is crucial — and the importance of zero-trust and micro-segmentation comes to bear.

“A lot of the technology that we are building into the network is really about making security intrinsic by limiting what can talk to what,” Hughes added.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the HPE Discover event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for HPE Discover. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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