U.S.-based Global Manufacturer Seamlessly Migrates to NextGeneration SDN Data Centers with NETSCOUT
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- nGeniusONE® Service Assurance platform
- InfiniStream® Appliances
- nGenius® Packet Flow Switches
Tech Stack
- Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Cloud-based services
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases
- Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence
- Infrastructure Inspection
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
The customer is a U.S.-based global manufacturer that supplies products used by millions of consumers on every continent. The company has tens of thousands of employees and manufacturing facilities around the world. The company is a global icon and has a passion for leveraging technology innovations in every corner of their operations. To meet global operational needs, this major manufacturer recognized the importance of being a world-class technology leader in their industry. However, excessive operating expenses associated with outdated data centers was costing millions a month. The company’s management determined it was imperative to re-architect its worldwide manufacturing operations in order to design, build, sell and service its products anywhere in the world.
The Challenge
The U.S.-based global manufacturer was facing high operating expenses due to outdated data centers, costing millions per month. The company needed to consolidate its data centers, implement a software-defined networking solution (SDN), automate services, deploy applications faster, and introduce a cloud strategy to reduce operating expenses (OPEX). One of the biggest challenges was transitioning from four legacy to two new data centers within an extremely tight timeline. Any delays would negatively affect the ability to realize projected cost savings. In addition, the consolidated data center footprint would require an expedited ability to triage any problems. This could result in production services delays and the loss of millions of dollars.
The Solution
To address its data center migration and production services challenges, the IT team turned to NETSCOUT. The nGeniusONE Service Assurance platform with Adaptive Service Intelligence™ (ASI) technology was combined with InfiniStream appliances strategically deployed across the service delivery path for monitoring and key analysis. They also deployed nGenius packet flow switches architected to provide visibility to the InfiniStream appliances simultaneously with their other security tools. The NETSCOUT solution was used to test and validate the pre-production application centric infrastructure (ACI) environment before commencing migration to the company’s new production data centers. The solution delivered real-time monitoring of the new connectivity points and Internet connections for the manufacturing production application, which is vital to the company’s operations around the world.
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