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NETSCOUT solutions Case Study

Popular Financial Services Company cashes in on Visibility Without Borders

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise financial services company is based on a September 2019 survey of NETSCOUT solutions 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 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




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of NETSCOUT nGenius Solution by TechValidate.

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