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U.S.-based Global Manufacturer Seamlessly Migrates to NextGeneration SDN Data Centers with NETSCOUT

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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
Challenge	The U.S.-based global manufacturer was facing high operating expenses due to outdated data centers, costing millions per month.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. Read More
About 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 However, excessive operating expenses associated with outdated data centers was costing millions a month.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. Read More
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. 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 Functions

Business Operation

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence

Infrastructure Inspection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

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.

About 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.

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.

Impact #1	NETSCOUT’s end-to-end approach is helping the company to successfully achieve its goal to consolidate their data center footprint from four to two global centers and implement next-generation technologies with SDN solutions, which is reducing OPEX and saving millions of dollars per month.
Impact #2	By testing and validating its new data center environments with the nGeniusONE solution in pre-production, the company was able to avoid go-live issues in its production environment, ensuring a smoother, more cost-effective migration.
Impact #3	NETSCOUT is helping the company improve its application deployment time – which typically took months in the past – and with nGeniusONE is able to reduce it to the industry standard of days. This allows the company to be more competitive.

Impact #1

NETSCOUT’s end-to-end approach is helping the company to successfully achieve its goal to consolidate their data center footprint from four to two global centers and implement next-generation technologies with SDN solutions, which is reducing OPEX and saving millions of dollars per month.

Impact #2

By testing and validating its new data center environments with the nGeniusONE solution in pre-production, the company was able to avoid go-live issues in its production environment, ensuring a smoother, more cost-effective migration.

Impact #3

NETSCOUT is helping the company improve its application deployment time – which typically took months in the past – and with nGeniusONE is able to reduce it to the industry standard of days. This allows the company to be more competitive.

Benefit #1	Reduced operating expenses, saving millions of dollars per month.
Benefit #2	Improved application deployment time from months to days.

Benefit #1

Reduced operating expenses, saving millions of dollars per month.

Benefit #2

Improved application deployment time from months to days.

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U.S.-based Global Manufacturer Seamlessly Migrates to NextGeneration SDN Data Centers with NETSCOUT

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