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Growing Agricultural Company Gets to Root of Successful Co-Lo Migration With NETSCOUT Visibility
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Agriculture
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Supply Chain Visibility
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The company’s acquisition of another agricultural business located continents away offered the commercial benefits of expanded market reach and production capacity. However, the acquisition also presented new information technology (IT) demands that needed to be addressed quickly. For example, the acquired company’s IT operations were managed by Help Desk resources and local technicians unequipped to meet the expanding monitoring demands of this now-global company. Wanting to reduce rather than expand their data center operations footprint, the decision was made migrate the acquired company’s business services into a regional Equinix co-lo facility. While this decision offered efficiencies and cost containment to the company, the Equinix site had not yet been instrumented for real-time monitoring of the transitioning agricultural business services. The parent company needed to assure business and service continuity before, during, and after the data center migration and required visibility and performance analytics to do so.
About The Customer
This global agricultural company has roots extending back nearly a century. With 4,000+ employees and customers in more than 60 countries, the company’s products include food consumed by millions every day. While maintaining their business focus on products sold in restaurants and markets, the company’s portfolio has expanded to include food manufacturing, farming, ranching, retail stores, and other agricultural interests. This innovative company also plays a leading role in the emerging digital farming/agricultural market space.
The Solution
The company is gaining necessary real-time views and monitoring of global agricultural business services by standardizing on NETSCOUT’s smart visibility technology across the business. The corporate IT team now has eyes on this expanded network and global data center operations by deploying InfiniStreamNG (ISNG) and nGenius packet f low switch (PFS) technology. IT continues to realize the value of accessing NetFlow data for remote site monitoring by using NETSCOUT nGenius Collector technology to capture MIB2 analytics, with this data integrated as part of the smart data fueling nGeniusONE performance analytics. The corporate IT team realized early returns from their new investment by using nGeniusONE for real-time monitoring of their expanded network, accessing analytics to troubleshoot potential issues involving network enablers (e.g., DNS, TACACS) before they adversely impacted business applications.
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