Cisco Systems and CA Technologies

Cisco Systems and

CA Technologies

Cisco IOS® Flexible NetFlow Fast-Start

Your organization’s IP traffic represents the lifeblood of the organization: the transmission of data used to book orders, communicate, collaborate, conduct research and much more. That’s why tracking and analyzing network flow data—such as Cisco IOS Flexible NetFlow, IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX), sFlow, J-Flow and other protocols—is so critical. By providing visibility into the flows of IP traffic, network flow content delivers the critical information your IT organization needs to understand, manage and enhance network and application service levels. However, while the importance of network flow data is huge, so too are the volumes you have to contend with.

To help maximize the utility of the data generated in your organization, you need a monitoring platform that can aggregate all flow data, while making it easy to filter and sort the

information so that it’s useful. Further, flow data needs to be assessed within the context of other monitoring data, including the status of devices and applications that are running in the network, in order to provide the cohesive insights required. Cisco and CA Technologies Fast-Start Program for Cisco IOS Flexible NetFlow enables customers with the ability to track and view the flow of traffic enterprise-wide for use in making network performance decisions.

The unique capabilities of CA Technologies and Cisco have the potential to deliver benefits such as: • Enhance the allocation of resources and workloads and boost application performance

• Quickly troubleshoot and address issues

• Gain timely insights to help detect and preempt security breaches

Solution Overview

Cisco IOS Flexible NetFlow is designed to enhance network infrastructure, reduce operation costs and improve capacity planning and security detection with increased flexibility and scalability. The ability to characterize IP traffic and identify its source, traffic destination, timing and application information is critical for network availability, performance and troubleshooting. The monitoring of IP traffic flows helps to increase the accuracy of capacity planning and helps ensure that resource allocation supports organizational goals.

Now by coupling Cisco IOS Flexible NetFlow with CA Nimsoft Monitor for Flow Analysis, customers can leverage both technologies to visualize where the main network traffic flows are occurring, assess performance data from different angles and drill down to get the specific data needed to make well informed decisions on the configurations of your Catalyst Switches. With CA Nimsoft Monitor with Netflow Analysis, you can:

• Enhance Infrastructure Performance. Leverage powerful trending reports to more fully utilize existing resources, better allocate workloads and more effectively prepare for future requirements

• Speed Troubleshooting: With CA Nimsoft Monitor for NetFlow, you receive timely alerts, comprehensive coverage and detailed performance views that enable your team to quickly spot and fix issues

• Boost Security: Detect new influx of traffic associated with malware and DDOS attacks and identify unsecured communications Key Feature

• Intuitive, powerful reporting capabilities that deliver timely, useful insights • Scalability to collect and

manage network flow data across your organization • Unified Monitoring coverage of

Cisco IOS Flexible Netflow creates an environment that enables administrators with the tools to understand who, what, when, where and how network traffic is flowing. When the network behavior is understood, business processes will improve and an audit trail of how the network is utilized becomes available. This increased awareness reduces vulnerability of the network as related to outage and enables efficient operation of the network. Improvements in network operation can help lower costs and drive higher business revenues through better utilization of the network infrastructure.

This technology, along with CA Nimsoft for Flow Analysis, enables administrators to collect real-time energy and environmental information across data centers; analyze it to identify issues and hot spots; alert users in the event of adverse conditions; and, report on consumption and usage. Through this joint solution, capacity planners have access to extensive historical information for projection analysis by providing access to over a year of 15-minute data for accurate year-over-year analysis displayed in a single unified dashboard. With Cisco IOS Flexible Netflow and CA Nimsoft for Flow Analysis, customers will be able to easily visualize where the main network traffic flows are, assess performance data from different angles and drill down to get the specific data they need to make the most informed decisions.

CA Technologies and Cisco Partners:

Ordering Cisco Flexible Netflow Fast-Start SKU: Available with Catalyst 4500E and 3850 Switches

• Customer orders a Cisco Catalyst Switch (4500E, and 3850 series). Partner can add the option to include a Cisco Flexible Netflow Fast-Start SKU (FNF-CA) at $0

– Customer is allowed 1 SKU per Switch and have network traffic visibility for ordered device

• Cisco switch is shipped and includes detailed instructions on how to obtain CA Nimsoft Monitorfor Flow Analysis licenses and setup-service from CA Technologies

• Support of CA Nimsoft Monitor for Flow Analysis trial will be provided by CA Technologies and partner

Key Contacts

Cam Gaskins, Sr. Partner Account Director

[email protected]

Cisco Systems Contacts

Yogi Barman, Alliance Manager

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