Aruba ClearPass introduced

Aruba Networks Inc. has introduced Aruba ClearPass, an access management system that simplifies and automates the provisioning of mobile devices, enabling them to securely access any enterprise network. This solution enables IT organizations to both drive down mobility services management costs and rapidly scale to meet the wide range of devices already deployed, and increasingly brought into, the enterprise.

Zeus Kerravala, Principal, ZK Research said, "BYOD can be a double-edged sword for enterprise IT departments today. On one hand, there are great productivity gains to be had by enabling workers to use their own devices on the business network. On the other, provisioning, securing and managing those devices is a nightmare for IT. Solutions such as Aruba's ClearPass portfolio offload the work from IT, while the business gets to reap the benefits of BYOD."

Gabriel Sandu, Sr. Director, Technical Services for Maimonides said, "The number and types of personal mobile devices that people bring to work has skyrocketed in the past year. We want to let them access the network for business purposes, but the options most vendors gave us for doing this in a secure manner were both expensive and cumbersome. Several vendors proposed end-to-end proprietary solutions that gave us some of the functionality we needed, but locked us into their solution set after requiring us to upgrade. The Aruba MOVE architecture with ClearPass gives us the capabilities we need with the best-of-breed, multivendor network we have now, and gives us flexibility for the future."