Arista Delivers Network Observability with DANZ Monitoring Fabric
December 08 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Enhanced client to app monitoring and
analytics
Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced a network
observability software, DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF), on Arista
switching platforms for enterprise-wide traffic visibility and
contextual insights. Network observability is the next-generation,
analytics-driven approach delivering network visibility across data
center, campus and edge use cases. This new offering enables
mission-critical monitoring for enterprise-wide traffic while
improving efficiencies and reduced opex through the adoption of
modern cloud networking principles.
Network Observability for Contextual Visibility
Today’s enterprise network visibility is evolving to support
real-time demands of distributed users and IoT devices. As the
lifeline for digital communications, network traffic analysis is
paramount for delivering real-time client-to-application to cloud
experience. To address these challenges, Arista is introducing a
new generation of network observability – to bring cloud networking
principles, data analytics and contextual insights. By integrating
its Data Analyzer (DANZ) with acquired Big Switch’s monitoring
fabric software, Arista is introducing the DANZ Monitoring Fabric
(DMF) software for enterprise-wide network observability.
The DMF offering is based upon Arista’s popular switching
platforms with optional advanced nodes including:
- Service Node software for packet processing, optimization and
flow generation
- Analytics Node software for deep context-aware traffic analysis
and machine learning
- Recorder Node software for full packet capture, query and
replay with built-in application identification
“The Arista DMF offers an elegant and integrated system, instead
of multiple legacy point products, simplifying operational
workflows, speeding up incident management and issue resolution as
well as reducing capex and opex costs,” said Alan Weckel Founder
and Technology Analyst for 650 Group. “Arista’s DMF redefines
network visibility from reactive to contextual as the market is
rapidly automating to scale to the explosion of data coming from
cloud applications and IoT devices.”
Network Observability is Next Generation of Network
Visibility
Regulatory compliance and cybersecurity hardening mandate
enterprise-wide, pervasive network observability for north-south as
well as east-west traffic. Legacy network packet broker (NPB)
approaches that rely on complicated scale-up designs are
inefficient, complex to operate and cost-prohibitive to deploy and
manage for east-west traffic.
Arista DMF is optimized for pervasive observability based on
cloud networking principles using scale-out leaf-spine, clustering
architecture and API-first programmability model. The DMF console
provides zero-touch workflows to streamline enterprise-wide
deployment, thereby accelerating service activation. DMF’s unique
multi-tenant capability enables NetOps, SecOps and DevOps teams to
consume DMF as an IT service to reduce monitoring costs
further.
Network Time Machine for Contextual Insights
To rapidly resolve a network performance issue or to detect a
threat, the IT operator needs to rewind the network state to the
occurrence of the anomalous event. Legacy solutions require complex
hopping and hunting across multiple discrete devices, extending the
mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).
Arista DMF is the industry's leading solution to deliver a fully
integrated network time machine experience. DMF’s system-level
approach delivers metadata and associated contexts to the Analytics
Node cluster and packet capture to the Recorder Node cluster. This
integrated one-click workflow across nodes allows operators to
zero-in on anomalies that have occurred in the past by
instantaneously retrieving historical network traffic. The DMF
Analytic Node’s machine learning capability dynamically identifies
anomalous network behaviors through auto-baselining. For tracing
malicious activities, The DMF Recorder Node provides one-click
traffic replay to designated security tools in order to recreate
their spreading behavior.
Mission-critical Observability for Cybersecurity
Mission-critical monitoring also demands lossless packet
delivery to security tools which necessitates the use of deep
buffer platforms. With DMF’s support for Arista’s flagship 7280R3
platforms with 25G and 100G interfaces, Arista assures reliable
observability solutions for mission-critical monitoring. DMF’s
flexible fabric ensures security tools receive all relevant network
traffic to detect and hunt threats. DMF integrates with Awake
Security’s Network Detection and Response (NDR) -- Arista’s recent
security acquisition -- to deliver traffic to various NDR ingests
points, thus bringing zero-trust security to enterprises.
Availability
The Arista DMF Software is procured as a multi-year subscription
license, with availability is as follows:
- DMF for 7050X3 (25G and 100G) platforms is shipping now
- DMF Service Node software supporting 40G, 160G and now 320G
performance with scale-out clustering support, enabling
multi-Terabit processing capacity, is shipping now
- Network Time Machine integrated workflows with DMF Analytics
Node and DMF Recorder Node are shipping now
- DMF software support for 7280R3 (10G, 25G and 100G) platforms
for mission-critical observability will be available starting Q1
2021
- DMF support for open networking platforms is shipping
Register here to learn more about Arista’s network observability
innovations with DANZ Monitoring Fabric at our webinar on January
14, 2020.
Read more about this announcement on Jayshree Ullal's blog
here.
Learn more about Arista’s Network Observability innovations and
the DANZ Monitoring Fabric solution here. Register here to
test-drive DMF on-line.
About Arista Networks
Arista Networks is an industry leader in cognitive cloud
networking solutions for large data center and campus environments.
Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility,
automation analytics, and security through CloudVision® and Arista
EOS®, an advanced network operating system. For more information,
visit www.arista.com.
ARISTA, CloudVision, and CloudEOS are among the registered and
unregistered trademarks of Arista Networks, Inc. in jurisdictions
around the world. Other company names or product names may be
trademarks of their respective owners. Additional information and
resources can be found at www.arista.com. This press release
contains forward-looking statements including, but not limited to,
statements regarding cost savings, performance, reliability,
security and efficiency. All statements other than statements of
historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual performance or results to
differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking
statements, including rapid technological and market change,
customer requirements and industry standards, as well as other
risks stated in our filings with the SEC available on Arista's
website at www.arista.com and the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Arista disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any
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