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Complex Applications
Challenge Security
Today’s complex business
applications often span hundreds
of servers residing on a wide array
of heterogeneous infrastructure,
both in the data center and in the
cloud. This complexity is further
compounded by virtualization
technologies, application
mobility and constant application
changes due to modern DevOps
environments. As a result, IT
managers are challenged to
understand an application’s
components, their communication
pattern and dependencies –
all necessary to meet security
requirements for modern
applications.
Enhanced security through
application segmentation
Tetration Analytics takes micro-
segmentation– a security
technique enabling workload
separation – a leap further
by delivering “application
segmentation”, which consistently
drives policies across the
application layer, regardless of
where the application resides:
virtualised, bare metal, physical
servers, or in the cloud. Policies can
be pushed to any vendor’s firewall,
and can be orchestrated at the
network layer as well. Compared
to static legacy solutions,
Tetration provides actionable
results dynamically based on
behaviour analysis of billions of
flows, processes, and workload
characteristics. Consistent policy
is enforced through the workload
agent for any workload, anywhere.
New Tetration deployment
options
Cisco is also delivering two new
deployment models for Tetration
Analytics. In addition to the
original large scale platform, Cisco
now offers a new smaller-scale
platform, Tetration-M, suitable
for deployments up to 1,000
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workloads. Cisco is also introducing
a new cloud appliance with
software deployed in the public
cloud on Amazon Web Services
(AWS), Tetration Cloud – also
suitable for deployments up to
1000 workloads. Regardless of the
deployment model, Tetration can
monitor workloads in private as well
as public clouds.
Platform extensibility through
APIs and apps
Tetration Analytics now enables
customers and ecosystem partners
the ability to write their own
applications that access data stored
on the platform. Users can bring
their own analytics algorithms
to Tetration to create apps that
generate customised data exports
and notifications in open formats
specific to their business needs.
Cisco is continuing its tradition
of open ecosystems by working
with partner companies to build
applications and integrations with
their solutions: AlgoSec, Citrix, Dell
EMC, F5, Infoblox, ServiceNow, and
Tufin.
Cisco ASAP data centre
Tetration Analytics is a key part
of Cisco’s strategy to help enable
digital transformation, which starts
with a Cisco ASAP data centre.
ASAP stands for Analyse, Simplify,
Automate, and Protect. This
architectural approach enables
organisations to modernise their
data centre and IT infrastructure
with a hybrid IT solution
that maximises application
performance, mitigates risk, and
increases operational agility in
support of digital transformation.
Cisco’s comprehensive data
centre portfolio underscores its
commitment to innovation: Cisco
Nexus 9000 switches, Cisco ACI,
CloudCenter, Tetration Analytics,
Cisco UCS, and HyperFlex.
About Tetration Analytics
Tetration Analytics is designed to
help organisations gain complete
visibility across everything in
the data centre in real time –
every packet, every flow, and
every speed. Tetration gathers
telemetry from software and
hardware sensors and analyses
the information using advanced
data centre analytics and machine
learning to provide IT managers
with a deep understanding of
the data centre. Through a single
pane of glass, security policies
are automated and enforced
based on context and roles.
Tetration simplifies operational
reliability, zero-trust operations
and application migrations to SDN
solutions and the cloud.
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