Dieseko Corporation, a Netherlands-based company specializing in the development and manufacturing of hydraulic vibratory equipment, was facing challenges with its existing data center. The company was growing rapidly, and the existing data center was unable to keep up with the increasing amount of data being produced. The existing system was three years old, and the data center couldn't expand to support the amount of data being produced. They were quickly running out of storage. The previous system employed Nimble for storage, along with SSD memory to improve performance. Other pieces of Dieseko’s infrastructure, like network switches, also needed an upgrade. The company needed a solution that would not only address these issues but also simplify the data center and provide an easy-to-install system.

The division of a Global 100 Technology Firm’s IT department was facing a problem where its legacy IT infrastructure was preventing the delivery of the level of services that its internal customers expected. The IT team was managing three data centers that were already at 100 percent capacity, and was looking for ways to provide further value and innovation for its internal customers—all the while reducing the cost and complexity of its infrastructure. The primary function of the internal IT operations staff is to support global development—a team comprised of 150 support and product development engineers spread across multiple data centers. The IT operations staff is responsible for all of the applications implemented to support the team, including development tools, build tools and systems, bug tracking applications, and support applications; this includes Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), an application in the nascent stages of evaluation for productivity and efficiency for the global workers, many of which were located as far as India. Previous evaluations conducted by the team were not met with success as they did not provide the level of performance to the remote workers that they expected.

The Mississippi Department of Revenue was facing challenges with their existing infrastructure. The management of multiple solutions and vendors was proving to be a significant burden. The department was in the process of a capacity purchase/upgrade of their existing infrastructure which led to an overall platform review. This review led them to evaluate and ultimately select HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure. The department was looking for a solution that could consolidate their data center, modernize their infrastructure, and provide a solution for their remote/branch office. They also needed a solution for their production applications, test/dev and QA, and data migration.

Record Automatische Deuren, a leading manufacturer of automatic door systems, was facing challenges due to a fragmented multivendor IT environment resulting from a corporate acquisition. The combined IT implementation—with multiple vendors, technology platforms and administrative interfaces—was far too complex and costly. In addition, the company’s legacy data protection solutions were inherently inefficient. It took hours to backup or recover critical applications using the Oracle Secure Backup or Symantec Backup Exec solutions, exposing the manufacturer to excessive data loss and prolonged application downtime.

Romac Industries, a leading manufacturer of pipe products and tools for the waterworks industry, was facing challenges with its legacy multivendor IT environment. The existing infrastructure, a mix of servers and storage arrays from Dell and EMC, had become too expensive and complex to administer, maintain and scale. The company's inefficient tape-based backup and recovery tools posed a risk of hardware failures or disasters disrupting revenue-critical applications for hours or days. Russell Turley, IT Manager for Romac, initiated a technology refresh program to improve the performance and reliability of the company’s IT systems.

Surrey Place Centre was facing significant challenges in managing multiple solutions and vendors. The organization was also under a mandate to implement disaster recovery and improve backup/recovery. The management of multiple solutions and vendors was found to be a significant burden, leading to the need for a more streamlined and efficient solution.

ROKiT Venturi Racing, a Formula E racing team, is committed to promoting a carbon-free future and showcasing the potential of sustainable mobility. However, the team faces significant IT challenges in processing, analyzing, and understanding data quickly. These factors have significant implications on their performance on the racetrack and in R&D at their factory. The team needs to ensure that they are at the cutting edge on the IT side to compete against much larger teams backed by big names in the automotive industry. From the factory to the trackside, the team needs to enhance data access, team communication, productivity, and agility.

Noyfil, a company specializing in the production of continuous polyester yarn, was looking to overhaul its application support infrastructure to enhance the management of its special yarn production process. The company was keen to break away from the typical approach in the manufacturing sector, where there is a tendency to adopt the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality. The rationale for this attitude is the level of investment—which can run into the millions—that is required when upgrading production facilities, which have a much longer service life than IT infrastructures, which need to be replaced before they become obsolete. However, with relatively moderate investments, it is possible to achieve a quantum leap in performance and ease of management.

Nutanix, a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, recognized the need to help companies modernize and deploy their applications in a hybrid, multicloud world. The company sought to leverage its technology in more than 20,000 of the world's data centers to manage any app at any location for their hybrid multicloud environments. However, achieving this required a strategic partnership that could deliver solutions to accelerate customers’ digital transformation and business outcomes. Five years ago, Nutanix engineers began porting their software onto HPE ProLiant DL servers to enable integrated hybrid cloud solutions. The initial relationship has now evolved into a true strategic alliance, with HPE and Nutanix expanding their relationship to offer customers an extensive product portfolio.

Staples Solutions, a leading provider of office products and services to businesses in Europe, was facing challenges with its data systems. The company had six outsourced data centers spread across Europe, all using different solutions, making them difficult and costly to manage. The company wanted to make its data systems more flexible, modern, and cost-effective. To achieve this, the company decided to centralize and standardize its IT infrastructure at its data centers and branch offices. The company decided to centralize its data centers, reducing them to two and moving these on-premises. It also wanted to upgrade its infrastructure at its branch offices to accelerate the performance of its applications.

Oco, a provider of business intelligence solutions, wanted to enhance its service by offering sophisticated data visualization capabilities. The company needed a solution that could integrate with its existing data warehouse and provide powerful, easy-to-use reporting and analytics for its clients. Oco's clients span various industries, including retail, consumer packaged goods, and industrial manufacturing, and the company wanted to provide a tool that could present data in many different formats to cater to these diverse needs.

Spil Games, a company that publishes and distributes mobile games to over 100 million monthly users, was struggling to extract insights from its massive volumes of data. The company wanted to build dashboards based on multiple data sources quickly and easily to drive data-driven decisions on a daily basis. The data they wanted to learn more about included everything from game loading times and search engine advertising optimization, to user demographics. At the time, Spil Games already had a BI tool in place for dashboards, but it was inefficient and time-consuming, taking 44 clicks simply to update one dashboard.

Replicated, an infrastructure software company, needed a development environment that runs on Kubernetes, as their product, Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf (KOTS) Software, runs in Kubernetes and manages the lifecycle of 3rd-party applications in the Kubernetes cluster. As their engineering team expanded to include dedicated front end engineers and other specialists, managing a local environment became a burden. They needed a solution that would simplify the process and maintain developer productivity. They were looking for a solution that would be simple to implement and maintain.

Ipgarde, a service provider based in France, hosts corporate customers’ servers and network devices in a virtualized environment. The company was using an open source solution for load balancing, but it could not fully guarantee easy configuration and migration, and 24/7 connectivity. The company was also facing challenges in testing server availability and load balancing, guaranteeing the availability of customer websites without disrupting the existing infrastructure and servers. The company’s existing open source solution did not support one-leg configuration. As servers were not being used optimally, another challenge was to reduce the number of public IP addresses used, by creating just one IP address which in turn would manage the flow of information to additional IP addresses, decreasing the overload on the CPU. Additionally, Ipgarde has been experiencing some DoS attacks, particularly from customer websites due to insufficient firewall protection.

Telenet, Belgium’s largest cable services provider, needed to consolidate its IT infrastructure and adopt a virtualized environment. It also needed a solution that included both basic load balancing features and application performance monitoring. The company looked for a solution that would fit into its existing infrastructure in both its production site and its testing environment. As a leading cable operator with an MVNO offering, Telenet also needed to provide non-stop, premium services to more than one million subscribers (existing residential and business customers) as well deliver new services to new and existing customers.

SK C&C designed a consolidation project to create a single highly-dense data center that provides web portal services to all fourteen subsidiaries of SK C&C. In consolidating their data centers, SK C&C wanted to achieve two main objectives – greater cost reduction, and operational simplicity. Cost reduction evolves from consolidation of hardware, software and other infrastructure equipment, and operational simplicity is achieved by managing fewer data centers, which helps meet compliance requirements more easily, handle security threats more efficiently and enhance business agility faster. For its web portal, SK C&C designed a single data center with multiple server farms, each housing multiple servers running different applications. To support the growth in traffic to the companies’ web portals, SK C&C set a target of 10Gbps throughput capacity for each server farm. One active ADC and one backup ADC with four physical ports of 10GE each were designed to handle servers load balancing needs.

CoinJar, a well-established digital currency exchange, was facing challenges with identity fraud, chargebacks, and account takeover. Being an online-only platform, it was crucial for CoinJar to have an effective online identity assurance program. The irreversible nature of crypto transactions and the anonymity provided by digital currencies made it a prime target for fraudsters. The company needed a solution that could adapt in real-time and provide effective fraud prevention.

The global automotive manufacturer in this case study had two manufacturing plants producing the same V6 engine with similar production rates and model variants. One plant used the eFlex Assembly architecture, while the other used a highly automated fixed architecture. Both lines had over 100 workstations and up to 200 model variants. Both sites needed to re-rate production and introduce new models. The challenge was that the highly automated fixed tooling line was inflexible, costly, and time-consuming to change. This resulted in lost opportunities and a lack of competitiveness in the market. The manufacturer needed a solution that would allow for rapid changes in production requirements, configurability, distributed control, and plug-and-play capabilities.

The customer, a global automobile manufacturer, was facing challenges with their existing transmission manufacturing process. The detailed nature of automotive transmission manufacturing and the high cost of errors made it crucial to ensure high levels of quality and minimize warranty costs. Prior to implementing a vision inspection system, the transmission line and all previous assembly lines were managed in a manner that was inefficient and costly. Images were stored on 50 PCs scattered throughout the plant, requiring engineers to visit each storage area to retrieve images associated to a particular serial number. This incurred excessive PC life-cycle cost and labor due to the initial investment, and ongoing OS patches, virus updates and hardware failures. The PCs failed to integrate and store images reliably, resulting in lost images. The system also lacked diagnostic capabilities, such as alerts when quality was degrading, as well as data and reporting capabilities.

A global automotive manufacturer was facing a sudden shift in market demand due to changes in fuel prices. The demand for 4-cylinder engines increased overnight, while the demand for 6-cylinder engines dropped. The manufacturer's assembly lines, which were highly automated and fixed for 4-and 6-cylinder engine assembly, were not flexible enough to adapt to this change. The 4-cylinder line was running around the clock but could not increase its capacity beyond its original design capabilities. The 6-cylinder line was meeting production requirements by 10 am and sitting idle for the rest of the day. This inflexibility resulted in lost sales opportunities.

Scientific Drilling, a leading provider of directional drilling equipment and services, aimed to become the 'ultimate partner in wellbore placement'. To achieve this, they focused on tool performance, strategic cost reduction, and process optimization. Rob McKee, SVP of Manufacturing and Product Support, was tasked with driving the reliability component of these performance improvements. The team recognized the need to integrate in-depth data analysis into their repair processes at Scientific Drilling’s motor shops. They aimed for digital workflows for standard assembly, disassembly, and repair procedures, actionable insights and quick visibility into quality workflows, near real-time data collection during repair operations, 100% conformance to process standards, and measurable improvements in cost and reliability.

The company, one of the largest dairy manufacturers in the world, was facing hurdles in scaling its operations to meet growing demand. Outdated procedures and processes led to inconsistent data capture, impacting operational productivity, quality, and employee safety. The company's largest site produces different types of drinkable yogurts. For every batch of finished product, samples are sent to the quality lab for microbiology and physico-chemical testing. All lab results were recorded on paper and created large binders of data, which were then manually entered into SAP every 24 hours, leaving room for human error. The data reporting process took anywhere from seven to 30 days to uncover trends or identify if the production line was complying with quality standards. Additionally, a single safety inspector would walk around a production facility to conduct safety rounds and create Safety Behavior Observations (SBOs). These reports were filled out inconsistently and would sometimes get lost, resulting in considerable safety insurance premium costs.

The railway company was committed to transforming its data center operations. This included plans for implementing Cisco® Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) software-defined networking (SDN), Cisco Equal-Cost Multi-path Routing (ECMP), introducing VMware ESX virtual servers, and upgrading to 100G network speeds. Alongside this transformation, the company’s data center operations were also transitioning to a hybrid data center environment that would include a new co-location (Co-Lo) facility. While IT leadership was intent on realizing data center modernization efficiencies, they were aware these new architecture boundaries required additional visibility for effective network and application monitoring, as well as reporting and troubleshooting. In short, they needed the same NETSCOUT Smart Visibility sources and real-time analytics performance already established in their current-day data center environment.

The agency's Information Technology (IT) team places paramount importance on maintaining the integrity and availability of the R&D environment supporting the activities of their researchers. The legacy technology located in the primary data center provides log management and packet forensics analysis, with IT also deploying a mix of packet brokers to pass traffic to their network and security tools. The agency wanted to transform this approach to encompass a proactive network, application, and cybersecurity monitoring framework that also leveraged their existing technology investments. The agency’s Cybersecurity team contacted a range of industry-leading service assurance and cyber threat/DDoS protection providers to identify a next-generation solution. The agency had tight budget limitations for this project and encouraged vendors to sharpen their pencils when submitting price proposals.

The energy company was embarking on several migration projects to support their digital transformation for improved customer experience. These included migrating applications to Microsoft Azure, upgrading their Contact Center to a SIP VoIP platform, and modernizing the data center to leaf/spine architecture. The company has a large, diverse network with multiple Data Centers, over 200 physical locations, a multitude of virtual servers, and hundreds of Tier 1 and Tier 2 applications. All of this is managed and supported by distributed IT teams, some of whom do not have in-depth network experience. With even more cloud and virtual environments being added, they needed to address any potential silos that would create difficulty identifying the root cause of an issue.

The Federal agency, a long-time NETSCOUT customer, was building and deploying a new data center. As part of the planned data center launch, the agency made the decision to migrate to a 40 GbE switching core. They determined they needed to reduce the load on their switching infrastructure and move away from their reliance on SPANs for on-demand troubleshooting of problem ports on the switch. Taps would provide the desired visibility. However, this presented further challenges in ensuring their monitoring solution would be supportive of much higher-speed backbone, as well as continuous monitoring for post-event troubleshooting and trending & capacity planning.

The European Government agency was facing network traffic issues that were preventing it from complying with the government's data retention guidelines. Their internally developed packet streaming solution was not keeping pace with the increasing network traffic volumes entering their data center. This led to packet drops and inconsistent data retention. The agency needed to upgrade their homegrown packet capture technology to monitor all incoming wide area network (WAN) traffic, which was ranging from 4GBit/s to 10GBit/s. As a publicly funded organization, the agency had to use a government-standard tender process to solicit proposals from several identified vendors.

The defense agencies of a European country were facing challenges with their expanding network topology and speed requirements for military purposes. They also needed to increase data storage for forensic activities and data encryption for enhanced government security mandates. The IT provider had to comply with policies regarding the monitoring approaches used to support sensitive military business. These guidelines applied to post-incident troubleshooting, which relegated the IT provider’s troubleshooting to a reactive approach reliant on network packet captures for off-line forensic analysis. The military also prioritized the use of additional safeguards, including mandatory data encryption in the communications environment. These challenges made gaining the visibility necessary to manage the performance of these networks even more complex.

The overriding mission of this organization’s IT team is to optimize the availability, performance, and security of the applications, communications, and networking systems used between personnel around the world and departments and agencies they work with. This required comprehensive network and application performance visibility, continuous monitoring and automated remediation processes, and orchestration of security and network management systems. Ultimately, a key goal and driver for visibility into these services was to additionally ensure quality end-user experience from dozens of global locations. Regardless of whether personnel were using Microsoft Office 365 (O365) or Microsoft Teams, Web and cloud services using HTTP and DNS, or accessing data centers over VPN or with virtual desktop interfaces (VDIs) like Citrix, the users expected and required a high-quality, seamless experience.

The manufacturer was implementing several strategic initiatives that would transform many of their traditional network, data center, business, and UC technologies. These included converting their remote site connectivity with the introduction of Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) technology from Silver Peak to their 200+ worldwide locations, migrating their corporate data center applications and services to private Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure, implementing Microsoft Office 365 enterprise-wide, and transitioning global communications from Microsoft Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams. However, the IT organization’s installed performance management solutions were incapable of monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting issues in all of the new environments. Recognizing that they were effectively blind and knowing the success of their projects would depend on quality application service delivery to their end users, the IT team initiated a search for a single solution to provide visibility throughout their transforming enterprise.