Gigamon introduces pervasive visibility platform for public, private and hybrid clouds

Gigamon has introduced what it says is the industry’s first data-in-motion visibility platform for public, private and hybrid clouds that enables organisations to gain consistent visibility across their corporate infrastructure. With native support for AWS, the recognised market leader in public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), the Gigamon Visibility Platform provides consistent and elastic visibility to manage workloads and applications as they scale to public clouds.

 

Cloud architects, SecOps and DevOps teams can now obtain deep visibility into data-in-motion regardless of infrastructure location, whether owned on-premise or consumed in a public cloud such as AWS, thereby providing them with the same visibility required to perform content inspection and secure their mission-critical workloads.

 

With escalating volumes of data and connected devices, enterprises are increasingly migrating mission-critical applications and workloads to public clouds. According to Gartner, “The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow over 83%, from $208.6 billion in 2016 to $381 billion by 2020.”*  

Meeting security and compliance mandates requires the ability to gain visibility into network traffic in order to perform both proactive content inspection for intrusion detection, malware analysis, data loss prevention, customer experience management, as well as reactive content inspection for forensics and compliance.

 

The Gigamon Visibility Platform for Amazon EC2 offers:

·         One consistent method to gain visibility into network traffic in a virtual private cloud (VPC), eliminating both the visibility gap and the need for custom agents

·         Ability to consolidate and distribute traffic to multiple tools for enhanced performance. Security teams can customise traffic sent to each security tool to increase its effectiveness

·          Advanced traffic intelligence functions including Gigamon’s patented Flow Mapping® and GigaSMART® applications - Sampling, Slicing, and Masking - to deliver only the traffic of interest to security tools, and in doing so, maximise their efficiency

·         An intuitive drag-and-drop user interface on GigaVUE-FM® to quickly configure traffic policies

·         An agnostic platform, benefitting any security tool, management tool and application that needs network traffic for analysis and inspection

·         The flexibility to run security tools anywhere-- on-premise, in the same AWS VPC, or in a centralised AWS VPC

 

“The Gigamon Visibility Platform enables our customers to accelerate their ‘lift and shift’ strategy as they move workloads into AWS clouds,” said Mike Clayville, vice president of commercial sales at AWS. “They can now accelerate migration of their existing applications and workloads, while gaining greater visibility into network traffic for richer content inspection and protection of their mission-critical workloads and data.”

 

“During the course of the last year, many customers and partners asked us to deliver a solution that provides the same level of visibility in the public cloud as we offer on-premise,” said Ananda Rajagopal, vice president of products, at Gigamon. “We developed the Gigamon Visibility Platform for AWS to enable our customers to have one consistent visibility platform regardless of workload location. Now these customers can effectively manage, secure and understand all of their data-in-motion across their enterprise and AWS cloud environments.”

 

BUILT FOR ELASTIC SCALE

 

The Gigamon Visibility Platform for AWS is built for elastic scale. Highlights include:

·         Integration between GigaVUE-FM, Amazon EC2 APIs and Amazon CloudWatch to automatically discover new virtual machines (EC2 instances) or ongoing changes in a VPC

·         “Automatic Target Selection” for elastic visibility as applications scale-out: Innovative, patent-pending method to automatically select and deliver traffic that matches a configured policy as new instances spin up

·         A patent-pending controller-based elastic architecture that enables organisations to start small and massively scale out to maximise the benefits in a public cloud IaaS

·         Open REST APIs for 3^rd party management applications to orchestrate and automate visibility or tool vendors to perform closed loop detect-react-respond to traffic analysis

 

KEY BENEFITS

·         See What Matters - On-premise or in AWS cloud

-        Access, categorise, and consolidate the delivery of network traffic to out-of-band security and performance management tools

 

·         See More. Secure More – Obtain common visibility across all enterprise VPCs

-        Mitigate risk and ensure data privacy compliance

-        Accelerate incident detection and response

 

·         Understand What Matters. Gain full transparency into traffic-of-interest traversing AWS

-        Improve customer experience by delivering better, faster service of applications hosted on AWS infrastructure.

-        Attain better insights and intelligence into traffic of interest.

 

·         Business & AWS Cloud Benefits

-        Flexible deployment models give freedom of choice on both location of workload and location of monitoring tools.

-        Avoid extensive re-architecting or unnecessary capacity upgrades.