Berger Paints selects HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN for security and network optimization

August 8, 2024

The adoption of SD-WAN will enable Berger Paints to streamline operations and reduce bandwidth costs across its branches

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  • Berger Paints has selected HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution to enhance and optimize its wide area network (WAN) connectivity across 160 branches in India
  • With the HPE Aruba Networking solution, Berger Paints will benefit from faster response times for critical business applications, including ERP and SharePoint, with over a 50% reduction in data sent over WAN
  • The SD-WAN solution improves application performance and delivers a high-quality user experience, enhancing business productivity and agility while reducing IT costs by replacing high-cost MPLS WAN links with broadband 

Bengaluru, India – August 08, 2024 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that Berger Paints has selected an HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution to enhance and optimize its wide area network (WAN) connectivity across its 160 branches in India, including data centers, disaster recovery sites, and headquarters.   

“Selecting HPE Aruba Networking underscores our commitment to digital transformation initiatives, allowing us to improve our application availability, user experiences, and overall network performance,” said Mr Partha Protim Mondal, CIO, Berger Paints India Ltd. “By implementing SD-WAN, we can respond more quickly to our business demands with increased productivity and higher return on investment. It will also help us eliminate our single points of failure, automatically rerouting traffic over backup links without disrupting application sessions."

By leveraging the inbuilt WAN Optimization feature, Berger Paints will benefit from faster response times for critical business applications, including ERP and SharePoint, with over a 50% reduction in data sent over WAN

With the HPE Aruba Networking solution, Berger Paints can now significantly reduce the time spent querying and downloading large ERP reports, addressing its primary challenge. By leveraging the inbuilt WAN Optimization feature, the company benefits from faster response times for critical business applications, including ERP and SharePoint, with over a 50% reduction in data sent over WAN. This ensures efficient IT operations, especially for remote and low-bandwidth branch locations.

The SD-WAN solution uses a centralized control function to securely and intelligently steer traffic across the WAN and directly to trusted SaaS and IaaS providers. This improves application performance and delivers a high-quality user experience, enhancing business productivity and agility while reducing IT costs by replacing high-cost MPLS WAN links with broadband. Additionally, with the built-in firewall, the HPE Aruba Networking SD-WAN solution has enhanced the user experience for SaaS applications, utilizing secured local internet breakouts over broadband.

The SD-WAN solution uses a centralized control function to securely and intelligently steer traffic across the WAN and directly to trusted SaaS and IaaS providers

“Our partnership with Berger Paints demonstrates our commitment to providing innovative and reliable solutions that empower businesses in their digital transformation journey,” said Prakash Krishnamoorthy director, of India at HPE Aruba Networking. “Centralized control and simplified management are imperatives to securely connect enterprise networks, branch offices, and data centers. For Berger Paints, our cutting-edge SD-WAN solution will improve the quality of their service, latency, and load issues. SD-WAN will unify networking and security functions to alleviate roadblocks between their teams, minimize complexities and cost, and optimize cross-functional collaboration.”

Recently, HPE Aruba Networking was recognized by Gartner as a  Leader for the 18th consecutive time in 2024 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure Report

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