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	Top Global Automaker Relies on NETSCOUT to Support Digital Transformation Initiatives NETSCOUT

Top Global Automaker Relies on NETSCOUT to Support Digital Transformation Initiatives

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Automotive
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Manufacturing System Automation Remote Asset Management
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	The U.S. division of a global auto manufacturer embarked on a data center consolidation effort with the goal of lowering risk and decreasing time-to-market with Cloud and application deployments. They needed to deploy new application services faster, reducing the rollout of new services from four months down to one day. Another major challenge was to assure performance of the design and build application services across a distributed infrastructure where all production facilities had to connect back to the data center. Failure to connect to the MPLS or WAN, and to the critical design and build applications, can stop the production line, disrupt the manufacturing cycle, and impact bottom-line revenue. IT was under tremendous pressure to manage the implementation of a Cisco ACI-based software-defined data center, as well as put in place a single solution to monitor their plant and office automation tools. A further challenge was the need to monitor manufacturing plants without installing agents on the production network. Read More
About Customer	The customer is the U.S. division of a global auto manufacturer that sells cars, trucks, SUVs and light commercial vehicles worldwide under multiple brand names. In order to take advantage of today’s digital transformation, the company is consolidating data centers in a push to ensure its IT infrastructure can support the objective of building, selling, and servicing vehicles from anywhere in the world. The company's CIO has a vision of being able to design, build, sell, and service the company’s vehicles from any place around in the globe, and the IT team embarked on a data center consolidation effort with the goal of lowering risk and decreasing time-to-market with Cloud and application deployments. Read More
Solution	To meet the digital transformation needs of the company, the architects and managers in the new data centers turned to NETSCOUT®. The nGeniusONE Service Assurance platform with Adaptive Service Intelligence™ (ASI) technology, along with InfiniStream appliances and Packet Flow Switches allow the IT team responsible for the data center and infrastructure to identify, isolate and mitigate issues quickly. The nGenius Packet Flow Switches were used to feed network traffic to InfiniStream appliances which provide comprehensive analysis across the enterprise environment. The nGeniusONE platform enables IT to manage the company’s remote plants from a central location. Passive, agent-less architecture gathers information from plants and feeds this back to the centralized management. As the company retools additional manufacturing plants, the data center IT team is leveraging NETSCOUT solutions to monitor, analyze and resolve issues related to their MPLS and WAN connections between the data center and plants, as well as with their plant floor control systems, plant automation and office automation services. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Automotive

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation

Remote Asset Management

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

The U.S. division of a global auto manufacturer embarked on a data center consolidation effort with the goal of lowering risk and decreasing time-to-market with Cloud and application deployments. They needed to deploy new application services faster, reducing the rollout of new services from four months down to one day. Another major challenge was to assure performance of the design and build application services across a distributed infrastructure where all production facilities had to connect back to the data center. Failure to connect to the MPLS or WAN, and to the critical design and build applications, can stop the production line, disrupt the manufacturing cycle, and impact bottom-line revenue. IT was under tremendous pressure to manage the implementation of a Cisco ACI-based software-defined data center, as well as put in place a single solution to monitor their plant and office automation tools. A further challenge was the need to monitor manufacturing plants without installing agents on the production network.

About Customer

The customer is the U.S. division of a global auto manufacturer that sells cars, trucks, SUVs and light commercial vehicles worldwide under multiple brand names. In order to take advantage of today’s digital transformation, the company is consolidating data centers in a push to ensure its IT infrastructure can support the objective of building, selling, and servicing vehicles from anywhere in the world. The company's CIO has a vision of being able to design, build, sell, and service the company’s vehicles from any place around in the globe, and the IT team embarked on a data center consolidation effort with the goal of lowering risk and decreasing time-to-market with Cloud and application deployments.

Solution

To meet the digital transformation needs of the company, the architects and managers in the new data centers turned to NETSCOUT®. The nGeniusONE Service Assurance platform with Adaptive Service Intelligence™ (ASI) technology, along with InfiniStream appliances and Packet Flow Switches allow the IT team responsible for the data center and infrastructure to identify, isolate and mitigate issues quickly. The nGenius Packet Flow Switches were used to feed network traffic to InfiniStream appliances which provide comprehensive analysis across the enterprise environment. The nGeniusONE platform enables IT to manage the company’s remote plants from a central location. Passive, agent-less architecture gathers information from plants and feeds this back to the centralized management. As the company retools additional manufacturing plants, the data center IT team is leveraging NETSCOUT solutions to monitor, analyze and resolve issues related to their MPLS and WAN connections between the data center and plants, as well as with their plant floor control systems, plant automation and office automation services.

Impact #1	Provides in-depth, agentless, service assurance in plant environments where agents are not an option
Impact #2	Assures performance of design/build applications where downtime costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour
Impact #3	Monitors SDN performance in the data center allowing faster service rollout

Impact #1

Provides in-depth, agentless, service assurance in plant environments where agents are not an option

Impact #2

Assures performance of design/build applications where downtime costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour

Impact #3

Monitors SDN performance in the data center allowing faster service rollout

Benefit #1	Reduced the rollout of new services from four months down to one day
Benefit #2	Minimized impact on the plant’s production line by quickly restoring service when design application was unavailable

Benefit #1

Reduced the rollout of new services from four months down to one day

Benefit #2

Minimized impact on the plant’s production line by quickly restoring service when design application was unavailable

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Top Global Automaker Relies on NETSCOUT to Support Digital Transformation Initiatives

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