I kept telling our Dell reps that Dell needs to buy into wireless and grab Aerohive or Ruckus. They would just mention the Aruba deal; we'll see what happens with that. I do think this can be good for Aruba. I see it as this - Cisco is a company that does $50B revenue annually and spends $6B in R&D. I know that's not all wireless, but Aruba has $725M annual revenue with $170M R&D. They need the financial backing to stay in second and maybe close the gap on Cisco. If integrated well, HP could have a compelling package with ProCurve and Aruba all managed under AirWave with some magic SDN sprinkled in there somewhere. Thomas Carter Network and Operations Manager Austin College 903-813-2564 [AusColl_Logo_Email]
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Sessler Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 10:59 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] HP is reportedly trying to buy Aruba Networks Makes sense. Aruba is #2 in the market (but pretty distant from Cisco), and HP is 4th depending on who to talk with, so acquiring Aruba would put their combined market share well past the other competition, and a tad closer to Cisco. Then again, it could go all wrong under HP. I thought Dell would have been a better match - I wonder what happens to the Aruba/Dell oem relationship if this happens? Or the Alcatel oem agreement. Jeff >>> On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 1:07 PM, in message >>> <b46a050c-963c-4838-acec-6c890472e...@exchange.louisville.edu<mailto:b46a050c-963c-4838-acec-6c890472e...@exchange.louisville.edu>>, >>> Trent Hurt <trent.h...@louisville.edu<mailto:trent.h...@louisville.edu>> >>> wrote: http://mvnoblog.com/hp-is-reportedly-trying-to-buy-aruba-networks/ ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.<http://www.educause.edu/groups/> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
