HP teamed with F5 last week to add automatic provisioning for the network, in an effort to make application management much easier through its Intelligent Management Center. It also introduced new security tools for the management of personal devices over wireless and wired networks.

We caught up with Bethany Mayer, HP’s SVP and general manager for Networking, at Interop in Las Vegas last week to find out how this is positioned in HP’s wider plans for the network, and the company’s overall push towards a converged infrastructure.