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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and hardware company Cape Networks. HPE has global headquarters in Palo Alto, California, United States, was established in 2015. It offers enterprise products and solutions are globally recognized and formed as a result of the former Hewlett-Packard company splitting into a number of divisions. Financial aspects of its acquisition of Cape Networks have yet to be released.
Cape Networks has headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States, and Cape Town, South Africa. The company has a mission to “make the Internet better” and it specializes in WiFi monitoring and network hardware solutions. It recognizes that IT managers are often not network experts and its solution helps “experts and non-experts alike to monitor and improve their networks” by offering a range of accessible dashboards and reports and sensors that detect and address a range of WLAN issues. Cape Networks’ solution will be integrated with HPE company Aruba’s AI-powered analytics and assurance capabilities.
Aruba’s networking capabilities are powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its solution offers a “sensor-based service” that offers customers a “simple, proactive, and network-agnostic tool for measuring and monitoring SaaS, application, and network services”. Aruba will leverage Cape Networks’ solution to deliver AI-powered analytics and enable customers adapt to user, device, application, and network environment changes. The acquisition is expected to be finalized late March or early April of this year.
“Cape Networks strengthens and further differentiates the Aruba Mobile First Architecture with a simple and intuitive, yet powerful, approach to optimizing the end-user experience,” explained Aruba’s CTO, Partha Narasimhan. “Mobile, IoT, and cloud continue to add pressure and complexity for IT organizations. Despite this, the quality of service and experiences can’t be compromised, especially for mission-critical business applications. With Cape Networks, IT can easily deploy and use a network of sensors to proactively optimize and remotely troubleshoot end user experiences for on-premises and cloud applications such as SAP, Salesforce.com, Microsoft Office and Wi-Fi captive portals.”
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