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Intuit Leverages Next-Generation Performance Monitoring with Riverbed and Big Switch

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Speakers

Ted Turner Sr. Network Engineer Intuit

Nik Koutsoukos VP of Product Marketing Riverbed Technology

Prashant Gandhi VP of Products & Strategy Big Switch Networks

Intuit’s Performance Monitoring Challenges

Ted Turner Sr. Network Engineer, Intuit

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•  Intuit’s Evolving Needs for Application Performance Monitoring

•  Key Requirements for Monitoring Infrastructure at Intuit

•  Factors Driving Purchasing Decision

INTUIT’S PERFORMANCE MONITORING CHALLENGES

HOW CAN BIG SWITCH AND RIVERBED SOLVE THESE CHALLENGES?

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Next-Generation NPB for Pervasive Monitoring

Prashant Gandhi Vice President of Products & Strategy, Big Switch Networks

EVOLVING MONITORING REQUIREMENTS

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DCs continue to grow •  More, Larger DCs •  1G/10G à 10G/40G

KEY TRENDS

Increase in East-West Traffic

~70% of traffic is now east-west

Increased Cyber Attacks

42.8M detected Incidents in 2014 (up by 50% over 2013)

Buy more NPBs (Expensive)

Box-By-Box Mgmt. (Complex)

Tool Silos (Limited Traffic Visibility)

Proprietary

CHALLENGES WITH TRADITIONAL NPBs

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BIG TAP MONITORING FABRIC

SOLUTION

Ultra-Low Cost Simple

Pervasive Monitoring

Solution

The Next-Generation Network Packet Broker

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BIG TAP + RIVERBED STEELCENTRAL JOINT SOLUTION

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BIG TAP CONTROLLER

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1/10/40G ETHERNET SWITCH FABRIC

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NetShark

AppResponse

Application Performance Monitoring

Advanced Packet Capture

Ø  Flexible, scale-out deployment

Ø  Massive operational simplicity

Ø  Multi-tenant tool and tap sharing

Application Performance Monitoring with Riverbed SteelCentral

Nik Koutsoukos Senior Director of Product Marketing, Riverbed

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Performance Monitoring for the Hybrid Enterprise

MOBILE INTERNET

REMOTE USERS MPLS

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Complete AND Modular Solution

aaNPM

(NetProfiler, NetShark)

Network Based

APM (AppResponse)

APM

(AppInternals)

EUE Monitoring

End-to-End Monitoring (Portal)

Networks Applications

How Intuit Benefits from the Joint Solution

Ted Turner Sr. Network Engineer, Intuit

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