EDITOR ’ S QUESTION
HOW CAN IT LEADERS ENSURE BETTER VISIBILITY AROUND CLOUD ACCESS IN THE WORKPLACE ?
IT complexity , which grew exponentially following the recent acceleration of Digital Transformation , has led to a foundational gap in visibility across the underlying hybrid infrastructure . The gap exists because network tools lack visibility into cloud traffic , and cloud tools lack critical network visibility because they rely solely on application-level telemetry . Additionally , traditional visibility solutions cannot be automated to elastically scale across a dynamic hybrid infrastructure . This cloud visibility gap has made it extremely challenging for IT teams to effectively manage digital infrastructure , leading to a poor customer experience , blind spots in security and compliance and challenges in cloud adoption .
To close this critical cloud visibility gap , Gigamon is launching Hawk , the industry ’ s first elastic visibility and analytics fabric for all data-in-motion across any cloud network . Hawk is the only visibility solution that delivers :
• Elastic visibility for any cloud . Hawk ’ s visibilityas-code can be embedded into cloud automation to elastically scale-up and scale-out on demand . A single , consumption-based licensing model operates seamlessly across any cloud , public or private .
• Cloud visibility for network tools . Hawk provides traditional network tools with immediate , agentless visibility into layers two to seven across any cloud network .
• Network visibility for cloud tools . Hawk delivers the ‘ ground truth ’ of data-in-motion to cloud tools , such as visibility into east-west container traffic and unmanaged devices , through network application metadata .
Thanks to this unparalleled elastic visibility , Gigamon Hawk radically simplifies hybrid infrastructure , eliminates security and compliance holes and provides IT teams full visibility of their cloud environments at scale . Hawk is available in a subscription , scaleas-you-grow , business model including embedded support and is comprised of :
• A suite of visibility nodes that can scale-up and scale-out as needed across any cloud network .
• A cloud data warehouse for security and operational analytic applications .
• A single , simple interface for either drag-and-drop manageability or programmatic orchestration .
Hawk is integrated with AWS and other leading cloud platforms and tools , providing a unified view across hybrid infrastructure . Hawk for AWS includes features such as elastic visibility that automatically scales out to capture traffic from new EC2 instances , efficient distribution of mirrored traffic to multiple tool destinations and the ability to extract and store network and application metadata in an AWS storage bucket for near real-time or historical analysis .
“ Helping our customers derive value from their cloud investment and solutions is the most important aspect of our work at AWS ,” said Scott Ward , Principal Solutions Architect at AWS . “ As organisations move workloads to the cloud , they want to ensure that they have clear visibility around potential vulnerabilities in their environment .
“ Using AWS with Gigamon Hawk , for example by leveraging Amazon Athena to analyse application metadata collected by Hawk in S3 buckets , customers can gain the visibility they need across their hybrid – or pure cloud – infrastructure to be confident in its security , performance and scalability .”
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