modern applications demand network analytics
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Modern Applications Demand
Network Analytics
Mark Harris
VP Marketing
Pluribus Networks
July 26th, 2016
Milan Hanson,
Senior Analyst
Forrester
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We work with business and technology leaders to develop customer-obsessed strategies that drive growth.
The digital disruption
Disrupt -- or be disrupted
Remember . . .›Borders
›Tower Records
›Kodak
›Blockbuster
› . . . and many others?
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A competitive business must prioritize five market imperatives
Drive business
growth with privacy
Turn business
insights into action
Embrace the
mobile mind shift
Accelerate your
digital business
Transform the
customer experience
Age of the
customer
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Today’s operations team serves many more
BTIT +
Technologies, systems,
and processes to win,
serve, and retain
customers.
Technologies, systems,
and processes to
support and transform
internal operations.
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IT Agenda Shrinks, BT Agenda Grows
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Poll Question
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Improving Customer Experience (CX) Is Top Priority
Source: Business Technographics Global Priorities & Journeys Survey, 2015
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Complexity is accelerating out of control
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Manual ability
Theoretical
complexity
Virtualization
Agile dev
Cloud
Mobile
Containers
IoT
Real complexity
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Virtualization adoption
›Server virtualization is
mature and…
›…spawned software network
elements, raising the
question…
›…why not virtualize other
network elements and…
›…standardize, simplify, and
scale network management?
Software-defined networking
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Application architecture is changing
› Modern Applications Are Composed From Networks Of Services
› Composition Simplifies Delivery But Increases Runtime Complexity
From Forrester report From Application Design To Application Composition
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What Is An Application?
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Cloud Adoption Is Growing…
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Mobile adoption is growing
In 2018 mobile subscribers
will constitute 84% of the US
online adult population:
Mobile is at the heart of digital
disruption…
62% expect mobile-friendly websites
42% expect a mobile app
23% expect a location-specific experience
84%
Customers already
expect companies
to be mobile:
Base: 4,404 US online adults who use a smartphone
Source: Forrester Research World Mobile Adoption Forecast, 2013-2018, Global; US Mobile Mindshift Online Survey, Q3 2013
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Container adoption is growing
› Google scales its application, launching more than 2 billion containers every week
› Saks Fifth Avenue re-architects a key eCommerce application with microservices
› BNY Mellon containerizes production workloads in a drive for operational efficiency
› RightScale goes all in on Docker to increase development speed and save money.
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IoT interest is growing
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IoT adoption is planned
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Digital Performance Monitoring
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Managing Complexity In The Age Of The Customer› Monitor every transaction
• Every customer matters
› Monitor every technology• Noise reduction is critical
› Prioritize for the business• Blend business data with tech data
› Analyze for insight• Big data store
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› Monitor every transaction• From every BYOD - networks
› Monitor every technology• More data in motion - networks
› Prioritize for the business• Where is the business data? – packets
› Analyze data for insight• Big data distributed across… networks
Managing Complexity In The Age Of The Customer
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Monitoring the customer experience
› Real-user monitoring (RUM) • Mobile browser – Javascript injection, tagging, packet analysis, backend
• Mobile application – SDK, wrapping, packet analysis, logs
› Synthetic transaction monitoring• Mobile browser
• Mobile application
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Monitoring application performance
Source: webpagetest.org (http://webpagest.org) testing forrester.com
› Cnn.com: 308 network requests
› Is the service slow, or is it the network?
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Infrastructure evolution
› Routine, everyday administration becomes simpler:
• Self-service provisioning
• Automation, consolidation of silo’ed functions: server, network, storage, security
• Scale-up more easily to match demand
• High performance – all connected in a single chassis
› Emphasis is on computer power and storage: not networking
Traditional, Converged, Hyperconverged
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Summary / Key Takeaways
› Digital disruption drives BT management
› Focus on the customer performance experience
› Advanced analysis requires comprehensive monitoring data
› Network is key to management and value
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Modern Applications
Demand Network Analytics
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Next Generation IT: Abstracted & Invisible
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Abstraction/Automation
Wo
rk
Consumer Visibility
Man
Machine
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Visibility has Always been Cost Prohibitive
Never Considered Urgent or Essential
Too Expensive (leads to limited deployments)
Difficult to Deploy (with parallel networks)
Overly complicated to use
Real-time versus Trending
Limited business alignment
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Pluribus VCF Delivers Visibility
Network is Sensor
Network itself is the Sensor
Physical and Virtual ollectors
Works with existing networks
Scalable Big Data
Big Data Analytics Engine
Search, Filter, Aggregate
Time based, Trending
Business Context Tagging
Affordable
Data Center, Campus or
Branch
Protects your investment
in existing networks
Leverages commodity
silicon chipsets
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Modern Applications and their Network Challenges
Converged infrastructures
‒ Excessive VM Mobility events can cause degradation
‒ Controller VM restarts slow performance
Big Data / Hadoop
‒ Depend on “Chatty” Micro-Services
‒ Prone to elephant loads
‒ Must be in sync lest they get bogged down
VDI
‒ Huge North-South communications to clients
‒ Huge East-West traffic to access common storage
SaaS
‒ Unknown usage can lead to overprovisioning
‒ Measure what % of traffic goes upto cloud
‒ Can also detect shadow IT
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Performance is still a function of
the network
Modern apps often obscure the
network
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Visibility is Everything
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Saas Applications – monitor clients actually using
Filter/select Application See clients using
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Converged Infrastructure Complexity (Nutanix)
Port diagram by Arthur Krzywdzinski
Cassandra (Metadata)
Zeus/Zookeeper (Cluster)
Stargate (Storage)
VM Mobility
Prism (Management)
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Hyperconverged Troubleshooting – Nutanix CVM example
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Zeus/Zookeeper
cluster
configuration
Exclude servers and applications not
relevant for the analysis
CVM-2 CVM-3
CVM-1
is
unresponsive
Are you alive?!
SYN: no answer for 15
minutes!
Filter - narrow the analysis to specific connections relevant for the Nutanix cluster
Observe the event – for a CVM failure, it would go unnoticed except for some limited performance hit
Inspect the Event Recording - VCF-IA brings a distinct recording of the event
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Thank You
Questions?
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Resources
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pluribusnetworks.com/network-performance-monitoring
Security Troubleshooting with Pluribus VCF Insight Analytics:
http://www.pluribusnetworks.com/resources/security-
troubleshooting-pluribus-vcf-insight-analytics/
NetOps Forensic Analysis & Troubleshooting with Pluribus
VCF Insight Analytics:
http://www.pluribusnetworks.com/resources/netops-forensic-
analysis-troubleshooting-pluribus-vcf-insight-analytics/
Capacity Planning with Pluribus VCF Insight Analytics:
http://www.pluribusnetworks.com/resources/capacity-planning-
pluribus-vcf-insight-analytics/
Nutanix Troubleshooting with Pluribus VCF Insight Analytics:
http://www.pluribusnetworks.com/resources/troubleshooting-
nutanix-pluribus-vcf-insight-analytics-video/