UPDATED 10:38 EDT / NOVEMBER 22 2016

CLOUD

Gigamon brings deep packet inspection to Amazon cloud

Gigamon Inc. is bringing on-premise-like network visibility to the Amazon Web Services cloud with a data-in-motion visibility platform that enables information technology organizations to conduct deep packet analysis on cloud workloads.

The company says its Visibility Platform for AWS Elastic Compute Cloud combines seamless views of both local and cloud infrastructure with the ability to parcel out traffic to various monitoring and security tools running on their own virtual appliances.

“One has many ways to get visibility on premise, but in the public cloud the options are limited to tools such as such as Amazon CloudWatch VPC Flow Logs,” said Ananda Rajagopal, vice president of products at Gigamon. “This can translate into reluctance by enterprises to move tier-one loads to the cloud.”

Public infrastructure-as-a-service vendors typically shut off virtual switches for security reasons, which limits the ability of their customers to pinpoint performance problems. Gigamon doesn’t have special access to Amazon network data but manipulates output from published application program interfaces to provide additional insight. “Our value isn’t access to the traffic but what we do with that traffic,” Rajagopal said.

The publicly traded Gigamon sells proprietary hardware and software products that manipulate and route traffic to various external tools for performance management, network management, analysis, compliance and security. The company’s stock has more than doubled this year and closed at an all-time high yesterday. Gigamon claims 79 of the Fortune 100 companies are customers.

The Visibility Platform for AWS EC2 enables centralized monitoring of hundreds of virtual private clouds from a single console. This consistent management view enables network and security administrators to better understand what’s going on in their networks, identify anomalies and locate choke points, Rajagopal said.

Features include:

  • One consistent view of network traffic in a VPC without the need for custom agents;
  • Intelligent routing  functions to deliver only relevant traffic to security tools;
  • A drag-and-drop interface for configuring traffic policies; and
  • The flexibility to run security tools on-premise, in the same AWS VPC or in a centralized AWS VPC.

Gigamon has integrated its GigaVUE-FM fabric manager with AWS’s EC2 APIs and CloudWatch cloud and network monitoring services to automatically discover new EC2 instances or ongoing changes in a VPC. Customers can automatically select and deliver traffic that matches a configured policy as new instances spin up. Open REST APIs allow for third-party orchestration and automation.

Gigamon has more than 70 ecosystem partners and works with more than a dozen open-source tools, including Security Onion, ntop, Wireshark and Bro. Among the partners that have confirmed compatibility with the new AWS platform are Acuity Solutions Corp., Cyphort Inc., ExtraHop Networks Inc., FireEye Inc., Jask Inc., LightCyber Ltd., LogRhythm Inc., Niara Inc., ProtectWise Inc. and RSA Security LLC.

List pricing is based on the number of monitored EC2 instances and ranges from 1.4 cents to 2.7 cents per hour.


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