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Aruba and Pensando have partnered to deliver the industry’s first Distributed Services Switch – enabling enterprises to deploy software-defined, stateful services where data is created and processed, eliminating legacy appliances and host software needed to build the hybrid clouds demanded by modern applications and IT organizations.

Aruba CX 10000 with Pensando

The Aruba CX 10000 Series Switch represents a new category of data center switches that combines best-of-breed Aruba data center L2/3 switching with the industry’s only fully-programmable function accelerator (Pensando Elba) to deliver stateful software-defined services inline, at scale, with wire-rate performance and orders of magnitude scale and performance improvements over traditional data center L2/3 switches at a fraction of their TCO.

Aruba CX 10000 with Pensando Web Page

Pensando Distributed Services Switch Web Page

Company Summary:

About Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the global leader in secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions that use AI to automate the network, while harnessing data to drive powerful business outcomes. With Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) and as-a-service options, Aruba takes a cloud-native approach to helping customers meet their connectivity, security, and financial requirements across campus, branch, data center, and remote worker environments, covering all aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide area networking (WAN).

To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com. For real-time news updates follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook, and for the latest technical discussions on mobility and Aruba products, visit Airheads Social at http://community.arubanetworks.com/.

Pensando and Dell:

Company Summary:

Created in a University of Texas dorm room, Dell Technologies was founded by Michael Dell with the goal of changing the digital landscape. Dell operates through three branches: Infrastructure Solutions Group, Client Solutions Group, and VMware. The Infrastructure Solutions Group focuses on storage solutions and hyper-scale servers. Client Solutions Group focuses on desktops, workstations, notebooks, and various tools and peripherals. The VMware branch focuses on customers IT priorities, modernizing their applications, and aiding in their digital workplace.

Pensando and Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Currently, Pensando Distributed Services Cards are available as factory-ordered options on select HPE ProLiant, HPE Apollo, and HPE Edgeline platforms in addition to availability through HPE GreenLake, HPE’s market-leading as-a-service platform.

How Can I Order A DSP-enabled Server from HPE?

Talk to your account manager or HPE channel partner.  Alternatively you can just go to the HPE Online Store.

Who Supports These Products?

HPE servers with the Pensando DSP are backed by single-call hardware and software support from HPE Pointnext.

Company Summary:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched in November of 2015, with the goal to assist organizations grow their companies by gaining more value from their data. It separated from Hewlett-Packard to debut as an Enterprise technology leader.

With software spanning App Modernization, Cloud, Networking & Security and Digital Workspace, VMware streamlines the journey for organizations to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and empower employees to do their best work.  Today the Pensando Distributed Services Card supports ESXi/vCenter  6.5/6.7/7.0. See the latest compatibility matrix.

Project Monterey

At VMworld® 2020, Pensando and VMware, Inc. announced their collaboration on Project Monterey, to co-develop a platform to support the shifting requirements of next-generation applications.

What is Project Monterey?

Project Monterey is a re-architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation to support the new, rapidly evolving requirements of next-gen applications.  As application requirements for compute continue to grow, Project Monterey takes advantage of accelerators like the Pensando Distributed Services Platform to offload the main server CPU, freeing up precious CPU cycles and bringing key services such as networking and security, closer to where applications actually run and operate on data.

This is essential to address the needs of new application types such as those found in Cloud Native, Multi-Cloud, Telco, 5G, Machine Learning, Data Centric, and Hybrid environments.

More information:
Pensando Blog Post
VMware Blog

Company Summary:

VMware is an information technology company founded in 1998 by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion with the goal to transform industries including banking, healthcare,  and telecommunications. The company focuses on three main product categories: Software-Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud Computing and End-User Computing.

Elastic Integration:

Pensando ensures that any customer can easily build on the power of their existing Elastic environment by providing integrated access to data available from the Pensando Distributed Services Platform.  Pensando/Elastic integration supports the ingestion of IPFIX and Syslog records gathered by the platform from hosts deployed with a Pensando Distributed Services Card (DSC), or from each Aruba CX 10000 with Pensando Distributed Services Switch (DSS), a new class of data center switch that makes telemetry an integral part of the network fabric. 

Pensando/Elastic integration tracks data for every server, supporting both Network and Security Operations to identify issues early on before they grow.  The workload-to-workload data gathered allows operations teams to immediately identify issues within the data center and find solutions in real-time.

The Pensando/Elastic combination is ideal for application performance optimization, network design and management, security threat management, and Identifying unmanaged/underutilized resources.

More Details

Elastic Integration with Aruba CX 10000 with Pensando

Elastic Integration with the Pensando Distributed Services Card

Elastic Company Summary:

Elasticsearch was founded in 2000 in a London Apartment by Shay Banon. He wanted to create a search engine for his wife’s list of recipes. After a few interactions of his app, he ended up making Elasticsearch open source and waited for users to give input on his app. Through the community, Banon was joined by Steven Schuurman, Uri Boness, and Simon Willnauer. 

In 2015, during Elastic{ON} the company was officially rebranded to Elastic and teamed up with Found, who helped manage Elastic on Amazon Web Services. On October 5th, 2018 Elastic was officially part of the New York Stock Exchange.

Guardicore Integration:

The collaboration between the Pensando Distributed Services Platform and Guardicore’s Centra Security Platform excels at addressing two problems currently affecting data centers: the increase in security risks as companies deploy greater numbers and more varied types of applications, and the complexity of managing the  security rules that are needed for each application as workloads grow and shift in real time.

These challenges  are uniquely addressed with the Pensando platform’s pervasive observability and firewall capabilities delivering comprehensive network/workload telemetry to Guardicore Centra, which then  automates security rules by automatically discovering applications and flow patterns, and delivering to the Pensando platform a set of firewall rules to enforce flow security.

The Pensando Distributed Services Card and the Aruba CX 10000 with Pensando Distributed Services Switch are ideally positioned to allow East/West security to scale along with applications. Integration with the Guardicore Centra Platform allows security policies to update as the services themselves are updated, simplifying provisioning and freeing expensive x86 hardware/software resources.

Guardicore Integration with Aruba CX 10000 with Pensando

Guardicore Integration with The Pensando Distributed Services Card

Guardicore Company Summary:

Guardicore is a segmentation company with the main goal of disrupting the legacy firewall market. They follow a software only approach which is separate from the physical network resulting in a faster alternative to firewalls. Their service offers greater security and visibility in the cloud, data-center and endpoint.

ServiceNow Integration:

The Pensando integration app for ServiceNow can discover and manage the inventory of any Pensando Distributed Services Platform environment.  It provides automated inventory retrieval from all Pensando Policy and Services Manager (PSM) instances, managed Distributed Services Cards (DSCs) and Distributed Services Switches (DSSs), workloads and any other orchestrators that are being used. The Pensando CMDB Integration exposes the relationship between workloads and their DSCs or DSSs, PSMs, orchestrators and physical hosts. The integration app can be used to troubleshoot applications and/or network issues within or between servers.

Pensando Integration with ServiceNow

ServiceNow Company Summary:

ServiceNow is a cloud computing solutions company that assists with digital workflows on a single enterprise cloud platform which they call the Now Platform. The company also provides workflow solutions and service management for customer support, security operations, human resources and other departments. ServiceNow currently hosts data centers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 

Splunk Integration:

The Pensando Distributed Services Platform integrates with Splunk environments to assist Network and Security Operations in one of their most fundamental tasks: identifying issues as early as possible before they grow into major problems. Operations can immediately uncover issues and begin remediation in real-time via access to data in the Splunk environment.

The Pensando/Splunk integration gives administrators the ability to use the Splunk platform to manage and monitor itself, using the network telemetry data generated by Pensando Distributed Services Cards (DSCs), regardless of whether Splunk is deployed on bare metal, virtual or containerized platforms.  Pensando provides views to support the NOC team as well as the SOC team allowing them to view contextual information from the platform’s integrated firewall and IPFIX/NetFlow services.

The Pensando platform has multiple different use cases including application performance optimization, network design and management, security threat management, and identification of unmanaged/underutilized resources.

Splunk Integration with Aruba CX 10000 with Pensando

Splunk Integration with the Pensando Distributed Services Card

Splunk Company Summary:

Splunk Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco CA. Splunk focuses on the development and marketing of software solutions. The product offers users to collect, index, search, explore, monitor, and analyze data. This is all done on the Splunk Platform, which is a real-time data platform created by the company. It also provides Splunk Solutions which includes Splunk Security, Splunk IT Solutions, and Splunk Observability Solutions.