TechValidate Research on Gigamon

Introduction

This case study of Singapore Telecommunications is based on a July 2020 survey of Gigamon customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

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

• Top reasons the organization invested in Gigamon solutions:
  • Advanced traffic intelligence, i.e., dedup, masking, decryption, etc.
  • Robust and superior architecture
  • Trusted source of high-fidelity data to feed network detection and response tools
• Invested in Gigamon solutions because they needed to remedy the following challenges:
  • Reliable access to data
  • Tools being overwhelmed with too much traffic
  • Troubleshooting network data
• Considered the following vendors before selecting Gigamon:
  • Cubro
  • Ixia

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: significantly better
  • Storage cost savings: best in class
  • TLS decryption: significantly better
  • Ability to extend the lifespan of older tools: best in class
  • Inline bypass: significantly better

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Gigamon:

• Achieve the following ROI after using Gigamon solutions:
  • Optimized tool utilization by traffic filtering
  • Reduced storage costs with better management of traffic volume
• Confirmed they saw ROI payback with their investment in Gigamon solutions within 12+ months.
• Reduced traffic to their tool set by 0 – 24% 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 Smithsonian Institution is based on a July 2020 survey of Gigamon customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the Smithsonian Institution to evaluate and ultimately select Gigamon:

• Top reasons the Smithsonian invested in Gigamon solutions:
  • Most complete visibility solution
  • Advanced traffic intelligence, i.e., dedup, masking, decryption, etc.
  • Robust and superior architecture
  • Trusted source of high-fidelity data to feed network detection and response tools
  • Protection from blind spots including within encrypted traffic
  • Single source of visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud environments

• The Smithsonian Institution invested in Gigamon solutions because they needed to remedy the following challenges:
  • Reliable access to data
  • Tools being overwhelmed with too much traffic
  • Reducing tool sprawl
  • SSL decryption issues
  • Troubleshooting network data
• The Smithsonian Institution considered the following vendors before selecting Gigamon:
  • Cisco
  • Ixia
  • NetScout
  • Palo Alto Networks

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Gigamon that the Smithsonian Institution uses:

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

Results

The Smithsonian Institution 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
  • Accelerated threat prevention, detection, and response time
• Saw ROI with their investment in Gigamon solutions within 6 – 12 months.
• Gigamon helped with the following during the COVID-19 situation:
  • Overloaded network and security tools
  • Troubleshooting and remediating poor network performance