Exclusive: Aruba on why it signed a huge lease in Santa Clara

Aruba Networks will soon be a part of Hewlett-Packard. But it’s not being beamed up to the mother ship.

The Sunnyvale-based company will move to more upscale digs in Santa Clara after leasing more than 240,000 square feet in two new buildings at 3315 and 3335 Scott Blvd., executives confirmed on Friday. The deal comes just weeks following Hewlett-Packard’s announcement it would buy the Sunnyvale-based wireless networking company for $2.7 billion, but was in the works long before that.

The lease…