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Financial Leader Seamlessly Migrates to Azure With NETSCOUT

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Cybersecurity Services
Challenge	The financial services provider identified Microsoft Azure as their organizational cloud services platform. The project was a critical undertaking for IT, involving business service & application migrations from numerous data centers to Azure Cloud services across their three geographic regions. The IT leadership team wanted to enhance the security of this solution, which led them to utilize Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, which extended the company’s on-premises network segments into Azure Cloud services using a private connection. As the IT teams worked to establish highbandwidth routers required to support the secure network connection associated with migrating large-scale, business-essential workloads to Azure ExpressRoute, they began seeing performance issues at one of the company’s data centers. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a global leader in the financial services sector, with a significant market presence in the Americas, Europe, and APAC business regions. The company successfully navigated pandemic-related financial service delivery challenges, reporting double-digit profits across the most recent fiscal year. For years, the company’s information technology (IT) team has turned to NETSCOUT solutions to bring visibility into, and assure performance of, their next-generation data center infrastructure and network environment. Read More
Solution	The company’s IT organization gained the visibility they needed to assure the network connection to Azure ExpressRoute by deploying InfiniStreamNG (ISNG) technology to passively monitor this new environment, instrumenting these NETSCOUT smart data sources at on-premises router demarcation points, as well as the data center edge to view “north-south” traffic traversing in/out of the data center. With their contracted NETSCOUT Premium Support Services Engineer assisting the IT team’s efforts, real-time nGeniusONE Service Dashboard views were customized to provide single-pane-of-glass snapshots into the company’s data center and Azure ExpressRoute network connection environment that quickly showed high rates of failures, retransmissions, and timeouts associated with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in the company’s TCP/ IP network. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Cybersecurity Services

Challenge

The financial services provider identified Microsoft Azure as their organizational cloud services platform. The project was a critical undertaking for IT, involving business service & application migrations from numerous data centers to Azure Cloud services across their three geographic regions. The IT leadership team wanted to enhance the security of this solution, which led them to utilize Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, which extended the company’s on-premises network segments into Azure Cloud services using a private connection. As the IT teams worked to establish highbandwidth routers required to support the secure network connection associated with migrating large-scale, business-essential workloads to Azure ExpressRoute, they began seeing performance issues at one of the company’s data centers.

About Customer

The customer is a global leader in the financial services sector, with a significant market presence in the Americas, Europe, and APAC business regions. The company successfully navigated pandemic-related financial service delivery challenges, reporting double-digit profits across the most recent fiscal year. For years, the company’s information technology (IT) team has turned to NETSCOUT solutions to bring visibility into, and assure performance of, their next-generation data center infrastructure and network environment.

Solution

The company’s IT organization gained the visibility they needed to assure the network connection to Azure ExpressRoute by deploying InfiniStreamNG (ISNG) technology to passively monitor this new environment, instrumenting these NETSCOUT smart data sources at on-premises router demarcation points, as well as the data center edge to view “north-south” traffic traversing in/out of the data center. With their contracted NETSCOUT Premium Support Services Engineer assisting the IT team’s efforts, real-time nGeniusONE Service Dashboard views were customized to provide single-pane-of-glass snapshots into the company’s data center and Azure ExpressRoute network connection environment that quickly showed high rates of failures, retransmissions, and timeouts associated with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in the company’s TCP/ IP network.

Impact #1	Securing and monitoring the Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute connection to Azure Cloud represented an important tactical win for the collective IT teams, also serving notice to company leadership that their investment in NETSCOUT would help provide visibility into new service edge environments.
Impact #2	While the IT collaboration seen here occurred in just one regional environment, it set a template for monitoring Azure Express Routes across all geographies where the company was preparing for their Azure Cloud migration.
Impact #3	The company’s move to Azure was seen as a high-profile project, and it was critically important that IT leadership identify any barrier to success that would adversely impact their ability to offer customer benefits and business service delivery efficiencies that had already been identified in associated media coverage.

Impact #1

Securing and monitoring the Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute connection to Azure Cloud represented an important tactical win for the collective IT teams, also serving notice to company leadership that their investment in NETSCOUT would help provide visibility into new service edge environments.

Impact #2

While the IT collaboration seen here occurred in just one regional environment, it set a template for monitoring Azure Express Routes across all geographies where the company was preparing for their Azure Cloud migration.

Impact #3

The company’s move to Azure was seen as a high-profile project, and it was critically important that IT leadership identify any barrier to success that would adversely impact their ability to offer customer benefits and business service delivery efficiencies that had already been identified in associated media coverage.

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Financial Leader Seamlessly Migrates to Azure With NETSCOUT

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