The package also integrates information from HPE Aruba Networking User Experience Insight sensors and agents, which now include support for WiFi 7 networks. The combination can measure end-user activity and allow IT teams to baseline network performance, continuously test network health, track trends, and plan for device growth and AI-native use cases, according to Levin.
By integrating all of this information, retailers— as well as customers with lots of branch office and remote operations— move from reactive troubleshooting to proactive decision-making, Levin said. In addition, it makes it easier for those customers to automate and simplify their IT operations.
“Ultimately, our objective is to get to self-driving network operations, where there is automated remediation, and that will allow retailers to power those immersive experiences [and] have all the information they need at their fingertips to support AI initiatives,” Levin said.
For its retail and other customers that utilize its Nonstop server system, the company has expanded the number of nodes it supports from 255 clustered nodes to 4,000.
In addition, the Nonstop OS also now supports multifactor authentication (MFA) and data encryption technology, which are increasingly important factors in retail operations as regulations, such as GDPR and PCI compliance, continue to evolve, according to HPE.
HPE Nonstop systems include compute, software, storage, networking and database resources as well as full-system clustering and HPE’s specialized Nonstop operating system which promise 24×7, fault tolerant connectivity for attached resources. Last year the company expanded the Nonstop server line with a new top-end 8TB, Intel Xeon-based Nonstop Compute NS9 X5 and entry level Nonstop Compute NS5 X5.
