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Growing Agricultural Company Gets to Root of Successful Co-Lo Migration With NETSCOUT Visibility
技术
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 连接平台
适用行业
- 农业
适用功能
- 离散制造
- 物流运输
用例
- 预测性维护
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 系统集成
挑战
该公司收购了另一家位于大洲之外的农业企业,这为其带来了扩大市场覆盖范围和生产能力的商业利益。然而,此次收购也带来了新的信息技术 (IT) 需求,需要迅速解决。例如,被收购公司的 IT 运营由服务台资源和当地技术人员管理,无法满足这家现已全球化的公司不断增长的监控需求。为了减少而不是扩大其数据中心运营覆盖范围,该公司决定将被收购公司的业务服务迁移到区域 Equinix 主机托管设施。虽然这一决定为公司提供了效率和成本控制,但 Equinix 站点尚未配备用于实时监控过渡农业业务服务的设备。母公司需要确保数据中心迁移之前、期间和之后的业务和服务连续性,并需要可视性和性能分析来实现这一点。
关于客户
这家全球性农业公司的历史可追溯到近一个世纪前。该公司拥有 4,000 多名员工,客户遍布 60 多个国家,其产品包括每天供数百万人食用的食品。在继续专注于餐厅和市场销售的产品的同时,该公司的产品组合已扩展到食品制造、农业、牧场、零售店和其他农业领域。这家创新型公司还在新兴的数字农业/农业市场领域发挥着主导作用。
解决方案
该公司通过在整个业务范围内标准化 NETSCOUT 智能可视性技术,获得了对全球农业业务服务所需的实时视图和监控。通过部署 InfiniStreamNG (ISNG) 和 nGenius 数据包流交换机 (PFS) 技术,企业 IT 团队现在可以监控这个扩展的网络和全球数据中心运营。IT 通过使用 NETSCOUT nGenius Collector 技术捕获 MIB2 分析,继续认识到访问 NetFlow 数据进行远程站点监控的价值,并将这些数据集成为支持 nGeniusONE 性能分析的智能数据的一部分。企业 IT 团队通过使用 nGeniusONE 实时监控其扩展的网络,访问分析以排除涉及网络启用程序(例如 DNS、TACACS)的潜在问题,从而在这些问题对业务应用程序产生不利影响之前,从他们的新投资中获得了早期回报。
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