Pervasive Visibility Platform – A New Approach to Visibility
Networks continually change and evolve. Many trends such as virtualization and cloud computing have been ongoing for some time. Although they have matured, their cycles have not completed. So they continue to evolve while newer themes such as Compute Everywhere, Software-defined Networking (SDN), and Risk-based Security take center stage. Each theme drives changes that affect the way we monitor and manage the IT infrastructure.
Compute Everywhere is a form of ubiquitous computing. Although it is driven by the personalization of wearable systems and is intended to distribute compute power wherever it is needed using sensor-based technologies, the fact remains that the majority of the information used will continue to be processed and stored in traditional IT data centers. Expanding data needs drive a significant increase in the volume of data carried across systems. Therefore, data monitoring must extend across systems as well.