BRKPAR - 2509 NetBrain Technologies: Achieving Agile Network Operations: How Automation Can Improve Visibility Across Hybrid Infrastructures Jason Baudreau
Achieving Agile Network Operations How Automation Improves Workflows Across Hybrid Infrastructures Jason Baudreau Director of Product Marketing NetBrain Technologies NetBrain Technologies 15 Network Drive Burlington, MA 01803 +1 800.605.7964 info@netbraintech.com www.netbraintech.com
Manual Network Workflows New Network Problem/Threats Where s the problem? What happened? Who can help? NMS/SIEM Static Diagrams CLI Ask frantically A monitoring solution or Intrusion detection system raises an alert, but then what? Teams have limited visibility into the pertinent part of the network. To make sense of what s happening, you must log into several devices When all else fails, teams must escalate or seek help from a tribal leader. Manual & Time Consuming 4 Strengthening Cybersecurity with Adaptive Network Automation
End-to-End Network Visibility What s the path? How s it configured? What s happening? Cisco ACI Integration 5 Strengthening Cybersecurity with Adaptive Network Automation
RAVI BALAKRISHNAN SR. MARKETING MANAGER CISCO SYSTEMS, ACI ECO-SYSTEM PARTNERSHIPS
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure - ACI
Cisco ACI: Industry Leader 4,400+ 45+% 65+ ACI Customers Attach Rate to N9K Sales Ecosystem Partners Ecosystem Partners
Different Teams Different Languages Application Language Security SLA Dependency Performance Compliance Tenants Geo-dependency Network Language VLAN IP Addressing Subnet Firewalls QoS ACL Load Balancer
SIM Cards and Application Profiles SIM Card Identity for a Phone Service Profile Identity for Compute Application Profile Identity for the Network Service Profile Network Policy Storage Policy Compute Policy
Our Vision for ACI: Scale, Security and Full Visibility Tenant Health Score 78% Latency 5 Microsecond(s) Drop Count 25 Packets Dropped Visibility Application Health Score 96% Latency 2 Microsecond(s) Drop Count 0 Packets Dropped Visibility Physical Networking 16 VMs 8 Physical Application Delivery Controller Firewall Hypervisors and Virtual Networking Compute L4 L7 Services Storage 16 VMs 8 Physical Application Delivery Controller Firewall Multi DC WAN and Cloud Enabled By Physical and Virtual Integration
NETBRAIN TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
NetBrain + Cisco ACI: Better Together Map: Visualize ACI constructs alongside legacy networks, including logical and physical connection. Path: End to end path for the entire application traversing through both legacy networks and ACI fabric. Runbook Automation: Equips users with unparallel troubleshooting capabilities.
14 NetBrain Dynamic Map: A Single Pane of Glass
Executable Runbook: Document Network Knowledge Engineers can codify best practices and workflows into executable procedures. 15 NetBrain
Executable Runbook: Automate Tedious Tasks Each step in a runbook is executable. Automatically collect, analyze, and visualize any network data. 16 NetBrain
Executable Runbook: Collaborate on the Map Analytics and custom notes are captured inside the runbook for easy sharing. 17 NetBrain
Enhance Workflows with Automation Network Troubleshooting 1 API-Triggered Diagnosis 2 Map-based collaboration Security & Defense Change & Verification 3 Knowledge Documentation 18 NetBrain
DEMO NETBRAIN + CISCO ACI
Visualize Hybrid Network
Visualize Endpoint Groups
Logical View of Hybrid Network
Application View with Contracts
End-to-End Path Across Hybrid Network
2,000+ customers worldwide across all verticals Telecommunications Technology Software Retail Manufacturing Higher Education Health Government Entertainment Energy Consulting Banking Finance 26 NetBrain
NetBrain Technologies 15 Network Drive Burlington, MA 01803 #1 800 605 7964 info@netbraintech.com www.netbraintech.com
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