Challenges
The business challenges that led this Financial Services behemoth, which closed nearly half a trillion dollars of mortgage volume in five years, to evaluate and ultimately select NETSCOUT solutions:
- high volume of disparate data from siloed tools makes it challenging to manage performance and security issues
- visibility blind spots in the hybrid cloud and multi-cloud increase risk
- lack of a common situational awareness between IT teams causes finger-pointing
Popular Financial Services Company strongly agrees NETSCOUT helps solve these service assurance challenges by:
- gaining end-to-end visibility across the cloud, data center, and network edge
- optimizing application performance when migrating to the cloud
- detecting anomalies and then quickly and efficiently investigating the root cause
Use Case
The key features and functionalities of NETSCOUT solutions that the surveyed company uses:
- Achieved the following with NETSCOUT solutions:
- greater collaboration between NetOps, SecOps, and other IT teams
- improved network and service availability
- Rates extremely important the following NETSCOUT features:
- ubiquitous visibility with pervasive instrumentation in the cloud and on-premises (vSTREAM™ and InfiniStreamNG™ software and hardware appliances)
- deep application visibility for multi-cloud and data centers (Adaptive Service Intelligence™ technology)
- actionable visibility for service performance, threats, and vulnerabilities (nGeniusONE® and Arbor security)
- Finds the following NETSCOUT partnerships for performance and security management valuable:
- AWS (advanced technology partnership, marketplace offerings)
- Microsoft Azure (co-sell partnership, marketplace offerings)
- VMware (advanced technology partnership for NSX and VMware Cloud on AWS)
Results
One of the largest mortgage lending companies in the United States achieved the following results with NETSCOUT solutions:
- The packet data that NETSCOUT converts into meaningful information helps their organization:
- Continuously monitor a variety of availability, reliability, responsiveness and threat metrics
- Achieved the following with NETSCOUT solutions:
- improved visibility: more than 50%
- reduced MTTK: 40 – 50%
- NETSCOUT enables them to confidently deploy and secure applications and services across physical, virtual, and cloud environments by:
- delivering smarter analytics to intelligently pinpoint data, network, session, and application elements that are causing performance problems
- helping rapidly uncover and resolve security problems without modifying existing workflows
- Agrees NETSCOUT’s performance and security monitoring technologies for on-premises, cloud, and network edge provides:
- deep visibility into service stacks provides an early warning system for IT and SecOps
- consistent performance and security monitoring, at scale, protects critical applications and services