Introducing CloudGenix Clarity

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1 SOLUTION OVERVIEW Introducing CloudGenix Clarity Brilliant network and app insights from the world s leading SD-WAN solution

2 CLOUDGENIX SOLUTION OVERVIEW CLARITY 2 CloudGenix Clarity is the most complete platform for insight into your networks and applications, giving businesses an unprecedented amount of visibility and awareness into how their networks and applications are performing. Coupled with the best-in-class software-defined WAN capabilities, businesses of all sizes can simplify their infrastructure while being better able to manage how their networks are being used and reducing cost. With CloudGenix Clarity, you can see every dimension of your networks and applications to measure performance, availability, and control how your wide-area networks are used. Macro Trends Tremendous changes have happened in the past decade for how I/T resources are deployed, managed, and consumed. Much of the infrastructure traditionally deployed in the data center now operates from a public cloud like Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure. Applications are more modular and elastic by design, yielding a far more distributed architecture. Cost-prohibitive private WAN links have become less valuable given the onset of low-cost, highspeed broadband. Cellular data connections are now not only considered as a backup WAN link, but in certain cases, used as a primary WAN link for small remote locations. With these changes in application architectures and connectivity, data no longer needs to be backhauled from remote offices into centralized data centers to reach public clouds. THE SD-WAN SOLUTION FROM CLOUDGENIX SOLVES THE DILEMMA OF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF DISPARATE CLASSES OF CONNECTIVITY AND SIMPLIFYING THE MANAGEMENT OF YOUR WAN. CLOUDGENIX CLARITY PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF VISIBILITY AND AWARENESS TOOLS TO MANAGE THE HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE OF YOUR APPLICATIONS AND WAN LINKS Prior to the rapid onset of these changes, I/T would deploy network infrastructure at each location, and complement those devices with a series of additional devices for managing visibility and performance. Further, configuration of such visibility tools often required complex configurations that demanded specialized talent to implement and manage. As one would expect, a change in the overall architecture disrupts I/T s ability to understand how the network and applications are performing and eliminates their ability to accurately diagnose issues when they arise. Software Defined WAN The SD-WAN solution from CloudGenix solves the dilemma of taking advantage of disparate classes of connectivity and simplifying the management of your WAN. The CloudGenix ION automatically establishes secure site-to-site connections, creating a virtual private WAN, over any WAN link, whether it is private, broadband, or cellular. Through the simple CloudGenix

3 CLOUDGENIX SOLUTION OVERVIEW CLARITY 3 cloud portal, your entire WAN can be managed without complicated routing configurations, CLI commands, or expensive industry certification. Application policies dictate how apps are allowed to use your WAN links and which link should be used. While traditional networking devices focused on moving packets from network to network, CloudGenix is fully application-aware and focuses on application sessions rather than packets. This means that CloudGenix uniquely identifies the application in use over every flow on your network and can make policy decisions based on the things that matter to your business applications, not packets. This key difference application awareness is what enables CloudGenix Clarity to provide the most comprehensive set of visibility and awareness tools available to I/T today, in addition to helping you simplify your WAN. Measuring Application Performance for SaaS and Cloud Apps Applications deployed in the cloud and software as a service (SaaS) present unique performance management challenges for I/T organizations. While measurement points exist in the customer s own network, no such measurement points exist in the cloud. When performance issues arise, service providers commonly advise customer I/T to examine their own environment laptops, networks, firewalls, and anything else that may exist in between and in many cases, I/T is never able to accurately identify where the issue exists. CloudGenix Clarity is unique in that is application-aware, and every flow on the network is dissected to determine which nodes are involved and which application is in use. Further, CloudGenix Clarity monitors every dimension of every flow including session establishment, teardown, transmission errors, response times, and more. This level of visibility allows I/T to quickly examine flows on the network and see every aspect including the amount of time spent on the network, the server, and the application running on the server. FIGURE 1: CLOUDGENIX CLARITY IDENTIFIES SOURCE OF POOR RESPONSE TIME: NETWORK, SERVER, OR APPLICATION

4 CLOUDGENIX SOLUTION OVERVIEW CLARITY 4 Measuring Application Performance for Datacenter Apps CloudGenix Clarity provides insight into how applications deployed in your data center are performing. In addition to measuring the response time for the network, server, and application, CloudGenix Clarity measures the overall application quality, which provides a single value representing the overall application experience. Applications that have a poor overall experience can be further diagnosed to determine the root cause, helping to minimize disruption to employee productivity. FIGURE 3: CLOUDGENIX CLARITY MEASURES HOW VOICE AND VIDEO APPS PERFORM ON YOUR NETWORK Measuring Performance for Voice, Video, and Unified Communications Voice, video, and unified communications are of paramount importance in employee productivity. A disruption in communication or even degraded quality quickly leads to lost time, frustration, and missed opportunity. CloudGenix Clarity examines every call and video transmission, recording metrics about their performance including mean opinion score (MOS), bandwidth, jitter, and packet loss to give an immediate picture of how your communications applications are performing. These key indicators allow I/T to understand what other aspects of the network require examination to ensure performance. Having complete and thorough visibility into communications flows helps answer questions such as do I have enough bandwidth?, is my QoS configured correctly?, and is network congestion affecting voice and video quality?.

5 CLOUDGENIX SOLUTION OVERVIEW CLARITY 5 Network Planning and Right-Sizing Along with measuring application performance and flow statistics, Cloud- Genix Clarity monitors utilization over every WAN link to help I/T correctly size WAN connections between sites and plan for the deployment of new links. Visibility into how the WAN is being used and directing traffic over the appropriate WAN type allows you to correctly size your WAN links. More expensive but more reliable private WAN links can be used for application traffic that is back-hauled to the data center, while lower-cost broadband and even cellular links can be used for traffic destined to the public cloud or general Internet traffic. Network Visibility and Monitoring Beyond being able to see WAN link utilization and correctly size your network, CloudGenix Clarity will provide granular views into how your WAN is being used and by which applications. This is critical to understanding user behavior, identifying bottlenecks, and keeping tabs on applications that commonly encounter performance issues. Overall link quality is continually measured so you can see in an instant how each WAN connection is functioning from an application quality and experience perspective. Best of all, you can drill into any of these details to identify specific flows on the network that are associated, allowing you unparalleled visibility into every connection and every application. FIGURE 4: CLOUDGENIX CLARITY MEASURES HOW EACH WAN LINK IS BEING USED

6 CLOUDGENIX SOLUTION OVERVIEW CLARITY 6 Detecting Security Threats, Rogue Nodes, and Malware Security threats, rogue nodes, and malware are some of the most difficult to identify for two reasons. First, a fundamental lack of over-arching visibility tools for the network, and second, security tool enhancements continue to lag compared to the arrival of new threats. Such issues can compromise an entire business not only in lost productivity, but also data exfiltration, denial of service, and other breaches that affect compliance. CloudGenix Clarity uniquely examines every flow on the network and maintains a history of each node, each application, and each connection. With Clarity, it is easy to identify errant behavior such as a large number of new or failed TCP connections, indicating a port scan, or, nodes that are communicating with systems that they shouldn t such as to foreign entities that may be stealing your data. FIGURE 5: CLOUDGENIX CLARITY SHOWS WHICH APPLICATIONS ARE USING WAN RESOURCES.

7 CLOUDGENIX SOLUTION OVERVIEW CLARITY 7 FIGURE 6: CLOUDGENIX CLARITY PROVIDES DETAILED INSIGHTS INTO EACH FLOW ON YOUR NETWORK. Summary In addition to powering the next-generation WAN giving I/T the ability to eliminate unnecessary cost and complexity the CloudGenix SD-WAN solution includes unmatched visibility and analytics in the CloudGenix Clarity suite. These tools allow you to understand your network from both a top-down and bottom-up point of view and see how your WAN links and applications are performing, without requiring additional complex hardware, software, or configuration gymnastics on legacy networking devices. With CloudGenix Clarity, you can see every dimension of your networks and applications to measure performance, availability, and control how your WAN is used. SEE FOR YOURSELF SEE CLOUDGENIX IN ACTION FOR YOURSELF! VISIT TO REGISTER FOR A NO-RISK FREE TRIAL TODAY. ABOUT CLOUDGENIX CloudGenix provides a software-defined WAN solution with AppFabric technology that enables you to build a global WAN based on business policies for application performance, compliance, and security, across all sites and users. Unlike router-based solutions, CloudGenix AppFabric allows you to define top-down global policies based on business intent rather than fragmented bottoms-up configuration changes based on technical implementation. With CloudGenix, you can easily integrate heterogeneous WAN connections for any site, take advantage of cloud and SaaS applications, improve visibility for app performance and SLAs, and dramatically simplify network operations North First St., #110 San Jose, CA CGNX info@cloudgenix.com 2017 Cloudgenix inc. All rights reserved.