To free up IT resources, organisations are looking to NaaS. By automating networking tasks and outsourcing network management to experts like Blue Connections IT, your IT team can focus on innovation rather than maintenance. Traditional networks demand continuous monitoring, updates, and troubleshooting, which takes time away from strategic initiatives.

Here, ensuring your network is always up to date with the latest security patches and hardware is key. However, tightening budgets and resource constraints can make this difficult. This is where moving to an as-a-service network model such as HPE GreenLake for Networking can help, providing an enterprise-grade networking solution that replaces legacy infrastructures.

The business purse is pinching, and getting budgets approved for networking is getting harder. With only so much IT and finance budget, it’s becoming a “who can create the most value” competition – with transformation and shiny new projects often getting priority. Leaving those out-of-date networks already struggling even further behind.

Shifting from large upfront network investments to a predictable, all-inclusive OpEx model is becoming a priority for businesses. HPE GreenLake for Networking NaaS solution removes the need for expensive hardware refresh cycles, offering a scalable, subscription-based model that reduces financial strain.

Strengthening network security requires continuous updates and real-time threat detection — something that traditional networks struggle to provide. Out-of-date networks are also a target for cyber attacks, putting your company at risk.

By leveraging features like HPE GreenLake for Networking’s AI-driven security, you can gain Zero Trust Architecture and advanced firewalls from the start. Protecting your business from evolving cyber threats without adding to your IT team’s workload.

Making data-driven decisions requires deep visibility into network performance. Without AI-driven insights or predictive analytics, insights are only as fast (and reliable) as our manual processes can manage. And the only way to avoid downtime and increase reliability is through monitoring — another time and resource-heavy task.

HPE Aruba Networking Central’s cloud-based dashboard provides real-time insights, allowing businesses to monitor, optimise, and troubleshoot their network without requiring extensive in-house expertise.

Business expansion should not be delayed by networking limitations. Yet, traditional networks take time to set up and configure. Taking more time away from day to day operations and requiring network experts on hand.

In comparison, HPE GreeLake for Networking’s NaaS solution enables rapid deployment. This allows organisations to scale up or down instantly without waiting for new hardware procurement or on-site installations.

With more cloud applications, devices, users and network access required than ever before, network performance management is more important than ever. Downtime or unreliability is not only frustrating, it can have wider (and more costly) business impacts.

An intelligent network adapts to modern workloads and traffic demands. AI-powered automation in HPE Aruba Networking’s NaaS solution dynamically optimises network performance, minimising latency, preventing congestion, and ensuring high-speed connectivity for cloud applications.

In the past, networks have needed to be somewhat future proof. With ‘just in case’ requirements built in to ensure network reliability and performance. But with this comes a lot of unused surplus – all of which you’re paying for.

Rather than overpaying for unused capacity, businesses are switching to a consumption-based networking model like NaaS that aligns costs with actual usage. NaaS provides cost flexibility,  allowing companies to scale their network dynamically while eliminating unnecessary infrastructure investments.

With hybrid work environments becoming the norm, employees need secure, high-speed access to business applications from anywhere. And when the network goes down or has performance issues, it’s costing the business time and money. Giving IT another issue to manage and monitor.

By using NaaS services, businesses are gaining the flexible network they need to support hybrid work. HPE Aruba Networking’s NaaS solution eliminates VPN bottlenecks, providing a cloud-native, high-performance remote access solution with built-in security controls.

Sustainable IT practices are a growing priority for businesses, and traditional networks contribute to e-waste and excessive energy consumption. With increased consumer demands around ESG, businesses are struggling to report on sustainability action due to lack of network visibility and often manual impact reporting.

HPE Aruba Networking’s NaaS model optimises power usage, reduces hardware reliance, and supports ESG reporting — helping organisations achieve sustainability goals. Choosing an NaaS service such as HPE GreenLake for Network through Blue Connections IT also gives you more insight into sustainability impacts and the ability to leverage lifecycle management programs.