Visibility is a key concern for companies moving data operations from on-premises to the hybrid cloud. It’s like speeding down a road at night too fast and, consequently, increasing the risk of a crash, according to Russ Currie (pictured), vice president of enterprise strategy at NetScout Systems Inc. NetScout provides application and network performance management products.

“A lot of our organizations are afraid of that happening to them: They’re going so fast as they move themselves into these environments that they’re going to hit and have a failure,” Currie said.

Currie spoke with John Walls (@JohnWalls21), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor), principal at The CTO Advisor, during the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. (* Disclosure below.)

Expanding into the cloud

While NetScout Systems has provided on-prem technology solutions for years, the company recently expanded its solutions to the cloud, including its vScout and vStream cloud management platforms. When expanding its presence into the cloud space, it faced a number of challenges. The main challenge was ensuring that customers had complete infrastructure visibility in the cloud.

“So now the question is, is the business really getting what they’re paying for as they move this forward? And their concern is that they lose that visibility into ‘am I really getting the services I need to start to turn this up in the cloud?’” Currie explained.

And because there are a lot of complexities when operating in a cloud environment, businesses are also asking for key performance indicators for user experience, service levels, responsiveness and speed when rolling out services, according to Currie.

Currie’s team was able to turn these challenges into effective hybrid information technology solutions. While customers bring their own licensing with them, NetScout provides its engineering capabilities in the hybrid cloud infrastructure environment through the implementation of vScout, which helps make deployments easier for workloads and is turned on only when it’s needed, according to Currie.

“It really provides a lot of flexibility in terms of having the same visibility and workflows regardless of being on-prem, private cloud or public cloud,” Currie concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: NetScout Systems Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither NetScout Systems nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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