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NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Platform Case Study

Local Government Agency Says Removing the Visibility Gap Between On-Prem, Cloud and WAN Environments Reduced MTTR by Over 90%

Introduction

This case study of Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services is based on a June 2021 survey of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Platform customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services to evaluate and ultimately select NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Platform:

  • The NETSCOUT solution is extremely important as part of their cloud migration projects:
    • pre-cloud migration visibility into service dependencies
    • end-thru-end visibility and actionable insights during cloud migration
    • post-cloud migration monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization of service performance
  • “Day 2” postmigration visibility challenges that are best solved by NETSCOUT solutions for complex hybrid cloud environments:
    • Assure service delivery and quality
    • Application performance management
    • Optimize user or customer experience
    • Quickly respond to vulnerabilities and security threats
    • Collaboration between the enterprise IT team and cloud service provider

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Platform that the surveyed organization uses:

  • Cloud service providers their organization works with:
    • AWS: using it today
    • Microsoft Azure: using it today
  • The profiled company strongly agrees with the following statements:
    • smart data is needed premigration to understand service dependencies and application performance baselines
    • insights into service, application, and infrastructure performance requires smart data to achieve user experience objectives during cloud migration
    • monitoring a variety of performance metrics requires smart data postmigration to quickly pinpoint the root cause of problems
    • to reap the full benefits of a hybrid cloud, smart data is needed to optimize service delivery and application performance
  • NETSCOUT enables this organization to confidently deploy and secure applications and services across hybrid cloud environments by:
    • Reducing MTTK (Mean Time to Knowledge) through a single pane of glass, service-centric dashboards and top-down root cause analysis using nGeniusONE
    • Supporting cloud native features such as Traffic Mirroring to complement NETSCOUT software-based instrumentation (vSTREAM™)

Results

Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services achieved the following results with NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Platform:

  • Rates NETSCOUT solution value against alternative solutions best-in-class for helping to manage risk and assure application performance during cloud migration
  • Rates NETSCOUT Visibility without Borders for cloud migration extremely valuable for:
    • visibility on-premises and in the cloud to optimize service performance
    • visibility into lifting and shifting or refactoring existing applications to baseline current traffic patterns and application response times
    • visibility across an entire distributed infrastructure for actionable insights during workload migration to the cloud




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