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Gigamon delivers comprehensive visibility for Nutanix-powered private cloud architectures
“ As organisations accelerate the move to cloud infrastructures to support their remote workers and DX initiatives , the attack surface expands , making full control and visibility over all network traffic crucial ,” said Bassam Khan , Vice President , Product Marketing at Gigamon . “ Gigamon is proud to include an industry leader such as Nutanix in our ecosystem as we work with our customers to secure , manage and optimise cloud , virtual and physical environments .”
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix enables customers to :
• Gain complete visibility : Automatically identify workloads , instantiate and scale GigaVUE G-vTAP VMs for traffic acquisition and configure traffic policies
• Identify over 3,000 applications : Send the right application traffic to the right tool while generating over 5,000 L4-7 metadata attributes for deeper security and performance related contextual insights
Gigamon , the company providing network visibility and analytics on all information-in-motion , has announced the general availability of its GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix . GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix is a validated joint solution for hyperconverged infrastructures ( HCI ) which resides completely in the private cloud . The solution allows the enterprise to optimise performance , improve security , minimise appliance over-provisioning and prevent network outages .
Global IT and InfoSec teams navigate critical Digital Transformation ( DX ) initiatives with a common goal of delivering a consistent end-user experience . At the heart of these initiatives lies network speed which is critical for performance , and improved security , which is cited by over 60 % of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index respondents as the biggest factor impacting cloud future strategies .
“ Nutanix views security as an important factor impacting cloud strategies and this requires the ability to monitor and visualise all traffic , including East-West , by directing it to the right tools ,” said Prasad Athawale , Senior Director of Business Development at Nutanix . “ Gigamon enables our customers to gain this critical visibility to help protect resources and help ensure compliance .”
• Improve tool capacity : Virtual security and monitoring tools are offloaded from burdensome tasks and irrelevant traffic to improve effectiveness , facilitate scaling and minimise costs
GigaVUE Cloud Suite for Nutanix provides an ‘ application aware ’ network traffic visibility solution that works seamlessly with Nutanix Prism .
Organisations can now automatically acquire Nutanix AHV based workload traffic , optimise the traffic content , and distribute selected traffic to security and monitoring tools , increasing security , operational efficiency and scale across multiple data centre locations . •
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