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Ixia Delivers End-to-End Visibility for Public CloudIxia (Nasdaq: XXIA), a leading provider of network testing, visibility, and security solutions, today announced it has further extended the reach delivered by the CloudLens™ Platform to the public cloud. CloudLens Public provides Visibility-as-a-Service (VaaS) and is the first to be implemented as a pure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) solution. It is designed from the ground up to retain the benefits of the cloud - elastic scale, flexibility, and agility. CloudLens Public provides intelligent and automated visibility as a service that scales with public cloud infrastructures. Access to application and network data in cloud environments is critical for security and monitoring tools to ensure the reliability, security, and performance of mission-critical applications. Granular access to cloud traffic is important to avoiding blind spots in a network that can compromise application monitoring, as well as overall security. Ixia (News - Alert) has extended the benefits of the company's CloudLens Platform to enable customers to capture and filter data in the public cloud. Designed as a SaaS platform, it does all the heavy lifting behind the scenes, freeing customers from managing visibility. CloudLens Public delivers the following customer benefits:
"Visibility is key to security, but when workloads transit the public cloud, visibility can be lost," said Jim Duffy, Senior Analyst, 451 Research. "Ixia's CloudLens Public offers enterprises 'visibility-as-a-service,' where all of the packet brokering takes place at the source. This could enhance scalability and network agility." CloudLens Public will initially be available in support of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ixia plans to add support for Microsoft (News - Alert) Azure and Google Cloud in the second half of 2017. CloudLens Public offers a cloud-native, serverless design that lays the foundation for solving cloud-scale problems and its intelligent, Docker-based architecture is cloud service provider agnostic. The Docker-based sensors run within a customer's source and tool instances, inheriting the security configurations of the instances. In addition, the sensors have access to a wealth of information, and the platform can be programmed to continuously monitor new instances that automatically align for proper monitoring. Leading security and monitoring solution providers that participated in the Ixia Public CloudLens beta program and performed joint validation include: FireEye, Dynatrace, CA Technologies, LogRhythm, NTOP, AppNeta, ProtectWise, NetFort Technologies and Savvius. "FireEye is excited to partner with Ixia on its new CloudLens platform to extend our industry-leading visibility and response speed into AWS, Azure, and other public clouds," said Martin Holste, CTO of Cloud, FireEye. "With ourfocus on simplifying, integrating, and automating security operations for customers with FireEye Helix, having scalable, native visibility into all cloud services, networks, endpoints, and third-party security products, enables us to stay ahead of our customer needs." "Ixia CloudLens Public was designed and built for the cloud and as a result, it is inherently elastic and scalable," said Sushil Kumar, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy, Agile Operations, CA Technologies. "CloudLens provides CA's network monitoring solutions the visibility needed to monitor end-to-end response times to track and optimize the end user experience, no matter where an application is deployed."
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Safe Harbor under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 SUPPORTING PARTNER QUOTES "As organizations have been moving applications to the cloud, it has become more and more difficult to efficiently obtain the packets required for deep analytics on the usage and integrity of those applications. Ixia's new CloudLens Public offering provides a scalable and flexible way to efficiently collect packets from cloud hosted instances. This solution has been validated to work with ntopng traffic analysis tool."
"Moving enterprise workloads to the cloud can create stumbling blocks for security teams, as they no longer have the network packet visibility needed to be effective. Ixia CloudLens Public solves this problem by providing full, easy and highly scalable visibility in the public cloud. The joint Ixia and ProtectWise solution provides automated threat detection and unlimited forensic exploration."
"As a provider of large scale SaaS-based performance management solutions hosted in AWS, AppNeta is very familiar with the challenges associated with obtaining actionable packet-level visibility in the public cloud. We found CloudLens Public to scale to meet the elastic demands of public cloud customers in a multi-tenant, self-serve model like ours and unlike other solutions we've examined, perform well with minimal overhead. With CloudLens, deploying monitoring solutions in the public cloud occurs in a matter of minutes, not hours or days."
"Ixia's CloudLens Public full-packet visibility in AWS enables Dynatrace DC RUM customers to monitor and improve the experience of business-critical applications such as SAP (News - Alert), Citrix and Oracle."
"The NetFort LANGuardian software download ensures users can get granular real time visibility of network and user activity on any remote site or data centre in minutes. Now, using Ixia CloudLens Public, this has been expanded to ensure the Cloud is no longer a blind spot. The combination of Ixia and NetFort ensures organizations always have a unified view of their environment from a single console that provides real visibility, metadata and context for faster detection and response across their virtual, physical and cloud networks."
"Extending actionable network forensics into the cloud is both difficult and important. With Ixia CloudLens Public, Savvius is able to bring cloud capabilities to Omnipeek and Omnipliance in a manner that is scalable, elastic, and reliable."
"The adoption of public cloud solutions is continuing to grow at a rapid pace. With this comes unique and significant challenges around how organizations ensure the security and integrity of their data and applications. Ixia's CloudLens Public solution solves the critically important problem of providing access to network traffic within and across cloud environments to enable solutions like LogRhythm's Network Monitor to perform deep packet inspection, rich metadata extraction, analytics and full packet capture around cloud-based workloads. Together, LogRhythm and Ixia CloudLens give our customers the necessary visibility and threat detection capabilities to instill confidence as they migrate to the cloud."
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