TechValidate Research on Gigamon

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise professional services company is based on a June 2020 survey of Gigamon customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Gigamon:

• Top reasons the organization invested in Gigamon solutions:
  • Most complete visibility solution
  • Advanced traffic intelligence, i.e., dedup, masking, decryption, etc.
  • Single source of visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud environments
• Invested in Gigamon solutions because they needed to remedy the following challenges:
  • Tools being overwhelmed with too much traffic
  • Reducing tool sprawl
  • Troubleshooting network data
• Considered the following vendors before selecting Gigamon:
  • Ixia
  • NetScout

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Gigamon that the surveyed company uses:

• Rates the following Gigamon features and benefits as compared to the competition:
  • Filtering, slicing, and dedup capabilities: best in class
  • Storage cost savings: better
  • TLS decryption: better
  • Ability to extend the lifespan of older tools: significantly better
  • Inline bypass: better

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Gigamon:

• Achieve the following ROI after using Gigamon solutions:
  • Maximized network visibility and performance monitoring
  • Optimized tool utilization by traffic filtering
  • Reduced storage costs with better management of traffic volume
  • Enhanced staff efficiency by reducing manual tasks
• Saw ROI with their investment in Gigamon solutions within 12+ months.
• Reduced traffic to their tool set by 25 – 49% after using Gigamon.
• Saved $200,000 to $500,000 using Gigamon solutions over time.
• Gigamon helped with the following during the COVID-19 situation:
  • Overloaded network and security tools
  • Troubleshooting and remediating poor network performance

Introduction

This case study of a membership organization is based on a June 2020 survey of Gigamon customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select Gigamon:

• Top reasons the organization invested in Gigamon solutions:
  • Most complete visibility solution
  • Robust and superior architecture
• Invested in Gigamon solutions because they needed to remedy the following challenges:
  • Tools being overwhelmed with too much traffic
  • Extending service life of older tools
• Considered the following vendors before selecting Gigamon:
  • Big Switch
  • NetScout

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Gigamon that the surveyed organization uses:

• Rates the following Gigamon features and benefits as compared to the competition:
  • Filtering, slicing, and dedup capabilities: best in class
  • Storage cost savings: better
  • TLS decryption: significantly better
  • Ability to extend the lifespan of older tools: best in class
  • Inline bypass: best in class

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with Gigamon:

• Achieve the following ROI after using Gigamon solutions:
  • Optimized tool utilization by traffic filtering
  • Centralized traffic decryption
• Saw ROI with their investment in Gigamon solutions within 6 – 12 months.
• Reduced traffic to their tool set by 50 – 79% after using Gigamon.
• Gigamon helped with the following during the COVID-19 situation:
  • Enhanced threat detection with remote employee VPN traffic
  • Overloaded network and security tools
  • Encrypted traffic blind spots