New Gear

My company (hospital management system) is looking to replace their old Cisco gear in the corp HQ (2950s era). We wont go with Cisco gear due to monetary limitations and as such we have been looking at Aruba and Juniper. Our NAC vendor has warned us about some interoperability with Juniper and we are still working on getting references. Anyone work with Aruba gear? Are they solid? Are they re-branded HPs or are they actually Aruba? We have VoIP phones and a Cisco WLC. Our needs beyond that arent too great.
Any other vendors we should consider?