SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Nov 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Gigamon Inc. (NYSE: GIMO) today announced general
availability of one of the first data-in-motion visibility
platforms for the cloud that enables organizations to gain
consistent insight and access across their corporate infrastructure
to manage workloads and applications as they scale to the
cloud.
Cloud architects, SecOps and DevOps teams can now obtain deep
visibility into data-in-motion regardless of infrastructure
location, whether owned on-premises or consumed on a cloud platform
such as Amazon Web Services (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 Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) offers:
- One consistent method to gain visibility into network traffic
in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon 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 customize 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, maximize their efficiency
- An intuitive drag-and-drop user interface on GigaVUE-FM® to
quickly configure traffic policies
- An agnostic platform, benefiting any security tool, management
tool and application that needs network traffic for analysis and
inspection
- The flexibility to run security tools anywhere – on-premises,
in the same Amazon VPC, or in a centralized Amazon VPC
"The Gigamon Visibility Platform enables our customers to
accelerate their 'lift and shift' strategy as they move workloads
on AWS," said Tim Jefferson, Global
Ecosystem Leader-Security, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "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 cloud as we offer on-premises," said Ananda Rajagopal, vice president of products, at
Gigamon. "We developed the Gigamon Visibility Platform on 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 on AWS is built for elastic
scale. Highlights include:
- Integration between GigaVUE-FM, Amazon EC2 APIs and Amazon
CloudWatch to automatically discover new virtual machines (Amazon
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 organizations to start small and massively scale out to
maximize the benefits in a public cloud IaaS
- Open REST APIs for third-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 on AWS
- Access, categorize, 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
- Gain 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
SECURITY ECO-SYSTEM PARTNERSHIPS
In developing this solution on AWS, Gigamon has actively worked
with many partners from our large ecosystem community to extend our
joint solutions to AWS. Specifically, BluVector, Cyphort, ExtraHop,
FireEye, Jask.io, LightCyber, LogRhythm, Niara, ProtectWise and RSA
all participated in our beta program over the last six months and
performed joint validation of a variety of functionalities using
network traffic extracted by the Gigamon Visibility Platform and
delivered to their solutions. The validated use cases included
all-in-AWS based solutions to hybrid models feeding traffic from
cloud and physical infrastructure to an on-premise tool set.
"Customers need pervasive visibility into all traffic -
especially as more data moves through cloud environments," said
Michael Adler, vice president at
RSA. "The network traffic data that Gigamon provides from AWS
further enables the RSA NetWitness Suite to detect and respond
faster to attacks often missed by log-centric SIEM and
signature-based tools through its ability to correlate packets with
security data from anywhere in the network."
Gigamon's global channel is interested in leveraging the
Visibility Platform for AWS for it enables their customers and
prospects to gain elastic and deep visibility into their AWS
workloads, while preserving their existing security and monitoring
infrastructure. Early partners who are working on beta programs and
investigating investment opportunities include Westcon-Comstor,
ePlus, August Schell, Blackwood
Associates, Guidepoint Security, Shelde Pty Ltd. and Scalar
Decisions.
PRICING
Gigamon Visibility Platform on AWS will be generally available
as community AMIs (end of November) and later, through the AWS
Marketplace and activated by BYOL license. List pricing for the
overall solution ranges from 1.4–2.7 cents per monitored Amazon EC2
instance per hour depending on the term duration. A 30-day free
trial is also available for up to 10 monitored Amazon EC2
instances.
For more information on Gigamon Visibility Platform for AWS and
technical specifications, visit our solutions page.
Join Gigamon at AWS re:Invent 2016, 11/28 – 12/2/16 to learn more about the Gigamon
Visibility Platform for AWS at Booth #2423, Venetian Hotel,
Las Vegas, Nevada
- "Who Stole My SPAN Port?! Obtaining Traffic Visibility in AWS
for Deep Packet Inspection" presentation, Partner Theater, Expo
Hall
- Follow @Gigamon and #reInvent on Twitter for the latest
updates
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Gigamon Visibility Platform for AWS product brief
Gigamon Visibility Platform for AWS data sheet
Gigamon Visibility Platform for AWS product web page
Customer & Partner quote sheet
"Amazon Web Services 101: What's Driving Companies to the Public
Cloud?" blog
"Visibility in the Public Cloud a Game Changer" blog
GigaTalks Cloud Chat with Shehzad
Merchant and Fred Studer
video
Gigamon
Gigamon (NYSE: GIMO) provides active visibility into data-in-motion
network traffic, enabling stronger security and superior
performance. Gigamon's Visibility Fabric™ and
GigaSECURE™, the industry's first Security Delivery
Platform, deliver advanced intelligence so that security, network,
and application performance management solutions in enterprise,
government, and service provider networks operate more efficiently
and effectively. See more at www.gigamon.com, the Gigamon Blog, or
follow Gigamon on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward Looking Statements
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meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking
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that concern our expectations, strategy, plans or intentions.
Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are
not limited to, benefits for a customer of the new product
offerings, and goals for our Visibility Platform for AWS and
projected growth for public cloud services market. Our expectations
and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual
results in future periods are subject to risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
projected. These risks include our ability to continue to deliver
our products and general market, political, economic and business
conditions. The forward-looking statements contained in this press
release are also subject to other risks and uncertainties,
including those more fully described in our filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the period ended December 27,
2015 and most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The
forward-looking statements in this press release are based on
information available to Gigamon as of the date hereof, and Gigamon
disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements,
except as required by law.
*Gartner, Inc., Forecast Analysis: Public Cloud Services,
Worldwide, 2Q16 Update, Sid Nag, Fred
Ng, David Edward Ackerman,
August 14, 2016
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