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The Need for
Active Visibility
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Demands on modern business infrastructure
Respond rapidly to changing conditions
Protect data, customers, brand against
increasing security attacks
Do more with less by increasing productivityCreates pressure to…
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Impacts of demands on modern infrastructure
These demands
strain IT
organizations
Growth in network usage
demands more bandwidth
New trends like virtualization and
SDN, complicate IT management
Rise of targeted security
breaches impact reputation
Compliance requirements
constrain business agility
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IT Transformation: Proactive infrastructure management requires responses to the following current IT issues
1 Gartner: Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure, July 2, 2014
2 Cisco Systems Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2012–2017
3 ZK Research
4 NSS Labs, SSL Performance Problems, June 12, 2013
70% 76%
75%35%
>70% of server workloads
are virtualized1
>76% of datacenter traffic is
east/west2 (server-to-server)
75% of problems are first
identified by end users, not by IT3
35% of enterprise network
traffic is SSL encrypted4
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Increasing value of your network requires proactive strategy
Infrastructure
growth results in…
Untapped information
needed for real-time
analytics
Distributed ‘silo’
approach to
problem solving
Limited network-
wide visibility
(physical and
virtual)
Mainframe
1960-1980Client/Server
1980-1995Internet
1995-2010Mobile-Cloud
2010+
IT management challenge:
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Closing the gap with traffic intelligence
Tools
Infrastructure
Network &ApplicationsInfrastructure
Broad, General Focused and Specific
Mobility, consumerization, virtualization, cloud, SDN, NFV
SVM NPM APM CEM …
Increased
traffic
intelligence
helps close
this gap
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Legacy methods to address IT challenges no longer work
Impact to The Enterprise
Reactive
IT Operations
Suboptimal return
on investment
Problems with
Legacy MethodsIT Challenge
Management tools
become overwhelmed
A decrease in key data
delivered to key tools
Network Speeds
Encryption and Virtualization
Topology and Port Limitations
• Security & network analysis solutions
may not be up to latest network speeds
• Technologies like SSL and SDN
‘hide’ traffic
• Updates to the production network are
disruptive to the business
A rise in single points of
failure, ‘blind spots’
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Three principles of Active Visibility
Secure
• Assure privacy and
compliance
• Extend the life of
existing tools and
reduce the cost of
new tools
Pervasive
• Pervasive visibility
from the physical to
the virtual
• Find problems faster
• Tool agnostic = best-
of-breed solutions
Intelligent
• Enables real-time
traffic collection for big
data analytics
• Provides agility to
anticipate, react,
respond
• Context-aware to
enable dynamic re-
configuration based
on real-time conditions
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Active Visibility brings flexibility, visibility and control
Gain visibility for security
and analytics tools
Provide visibility across physical
and virtual infrastructure
Enable real-time data
capture and analysis
Shorten technology
evaluation cycles
Gain flexibility to integrate new
best-of-breed network tools
Intelligently direct and
groom traffic
Distribute the right traffic to
the right solution
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Unified Visibility Fabric enables Active Visibility
“Leaf”
switch
“Spine”
switch
Virtualized
Server Farm
Routers
Internet
Application
Performance
Network
Performance
Customer Experience
Management
Centralized
Tools
Security
THE
NETWORK
ACTIVE VISIBILITY:
VISIBILITY FABRIC
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Key benefits of Active Visibility…future-proofs your business
HeaderStripping
De-duplication FlowVUE™ GTPCorrelation
NetFlowGeneration
SSLDecryption
PacketSlicing
Masking AdaptivePacketFiltering
Tunneling
GigaVUE-FMSingle pane of glass across Visibility infrastructure
GigaVUE-VM
Edge
Physical
Virtual
Core
GigaVUE-HD8 GigaVUE-HC2
GigaVUE-HB1
GigaVUE-TA1
Interface to other applications
Application
Performance
Network
Performance
Customer
Experience
Management
Centralized
Tools
Security
Data CenterRacks
GigaVUE-OS on white box
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HeaderStripping
De-duplication FlowVUE™ GTPCorrelation
NetFlowGeneration
SSLDecryption
PacketSlicing
Masking AdaptivePacketFiltering
Tunneling
GigaVUE-FMSingle pane of glass across Visibility infrastructure
GigaVUE-VM
Edge
Physical
Virtual
Core
GigaVUE-HD8 GigaVUE-HC2
GigaVUE-HB1
GigaVUE-TA1
Interface to other applications
Application
Performance
Network
Performance
Customer
Experience
Management
Centralized
Tools
Security
Data CenterRacks
GigaVUE-OS on white box
Key benefits of Active Visibility…future-proofs your business
The right network data to best-of-breed solutions
Pervasive visibility across physical, virtual and remote networks
Simplification of network troubleshooting
Compliance – supports privacy, data capture, storage and monitoring
SLA metrics and customer experience management
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