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To improve data centre visibility , troubleshooting and security , FNB deployed Cisco Tetration platform , which provides a detailed view – both real-time and historical – of application connectivity , dependencies , and data flows across a hybrid IT environment .
“ The game changer ,” as Pretorius calls Cisco Tetration , has indeed altered the playing field on which FNB competes .
From blindness to 20 / 20 vision explained that Tetration is his favoured tool whenever problems occur .
“ If something goes down , we immediately use Tetration to see what ’ s happening . We have very large , very complex applications that have been around for decades and Tetration shows us things we ’ ve never seen before . If an IoT device is misconfigured or if a server is in distress or an endpoint is causing issues , we can immediately see it and isolate the problem ,” he said .
FNB was the first company in the world to adopt Cisco Tetration , which is now installed on half of the bank ’ s servers , including its DNS and Active Directory systems . Pretorius , a self-described ‘ nerdy , hands-on CIO ,’ has become a power user and
Anomalies and outages that used to take a roomful of specialists and tens of hours to troubleshoot are now characterised in minutes using Cisco Tetration , which is integrated with Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches . Pretorius added that the network has rarely been the
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