Enterprise IT teams juggling separate vendors for cloud networking and security have a familiar complaint: too many tools, too many dashboards, not enough accountability when something breaks. GTT Communications is betting an expanded partnership with HPE can chip away at that problem, especially for organizations spreading workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments.
The two companies announced this week that they’re broadening their decade-long collaboration, combining GTT’s Envision platform and Managed LAN/WLAN services with HPE Aruba Central. Both companies say the goal is to give enterprises a simpler way to connect users, devices, and applications across increasingly scattered environments, including data centers, public cloud, and SaaS platforms, at a time when AI adoption and expanding attack surfaces are pushing organizations to rethink how they design and secure their networks.
The timing tracks with where the industry is heading. Research firm Dell’Oro Group projects single-vendor SASE, meaning cloud-delivered networking and security bundled from one provider rather than stitched together from several, will make up about 85% of a $21 billion market by 2030. Mauricio Sanchez, a senior director at Dell’Oro, said that approach tends to work best when both SD-WAN and security service edge genuinely matter to a customer’s cloud architecture, since consolidating vendors tends to improve policy consistency and operational accountability.
GTT and HPE have already run SD-WAN managed services together for more than ten years using HPE’s EdgeConnect platform. This expansion adds HPE Networking’s security service edge capabilities into the mix, letting GTT grow its Secure Connect portfolio into a fully managed, single-vendor SASE offering that runs on its own global network and integrates HPE’s cloud security tools into a zero trust architecture.
Fletcher Keister, GTT’s Chief Product Technology Officer, said the company built its Envision platform specifically to support strong third-party technology like HPE Networking, so customers can keep accessing market-leading tools as their cloud and networking needs shift. HPE’s Jon Green, meanwhile, said the expansion strengthens GTT’s ability to deliver networking and security as one unified experience spanning data centers, cloud, SaaS, and edge environments, rather than forcing customers to manage each piece separately.
GTT Secure Connect with HPE’s security service edge capabilities is available now. GTT expects to deliver the broader LAN/WLAN portfolio expansion to enterprise customers later this year.
