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As enterprise organizations continue their DX journey, they turn to Microsoft Azure to meet users’ demands for a fast, seamless, and secure digital experience. Azure uses secure storage, powerful compute services, and integrated data analytics to support distributed, connected applications, helping businesses cut time to market and improve customer satisfaction.
But migrating your applications from on-prem to the cloud takes several steps. Combining this with an increasingly complex infrastructure means tools that you use on-prem may not provide the service delivery and security insights needed to succeed in the cloud.
NETSCOUT® delivers end-to-end visibility to mitigate service performance issues, threats, and vulnerabilities in a complete Azure network monitoring solution. As you go on your Azure migration journey, reducing business risk requires NETSCOUT turning network packet data into Smart Data and measuring your success along the way. NETSCOUT solutions deliver the information you need to keep your business moving before, during, and after migrating applications to Azure.
Application Performance Management for Microsoft Azure Cloud
Visibility Without Borders Starts with NETSCOUT nGenius Enterprise Performance Management for Hybrid Cloud Environments
NETSCOUT Omnis Cyber Security Solution for Microsoft Azure
Illuminate Threats Everywhere, Anywhere, Anytime with Smarter Security
Key Benefits
Accelerate deployments of services
Accelerate deployments of services into Azure while assuring business continuity.
Solve security issues faster and with fewer resources
Solve security issues faster with fewer resources with Deep Packet Inspection-based network visibility, threat detection, and response platform.
Achieve end-user experience objectives
Achieve end-user experience objectives and swift issue resolution for application services with NETSCOUT Smart Data and smart analytics.
Benefit from comprehensive technology alignment between NETSCOUT and Microsoft
Strong technology alignment between NETSCOUT and Microsoft helps enterprises achieve business goals.
Quick time to value
Quick time to value with easy-to-deploy services and easy-to-manage solutions available on the Azure Marketplace.
NETSCOUT Observability and Cybersecurity Solutions in Azure
NETSCOUT is effectively acquiring packet data across the cloud and employing DPI technology to transform it into Smart Data, which serves as the basis for actionable intelligence in observability and cybersecurity within hybrid cloud environments. This section will outline best practices for efficiently acquiring packets in Azure and converting them into actionable intelligence.
What are Azure vTAPs, and how do they interact with NETSCOUT?
The Azure virtual network terminal access point (TAP) facilitates the continuous streaming of network traffic from virtual machines (VMs) either directly to NETSCOUT’s virtual probes or to the Azure Load Balancer (LB) positioned in front of these virtual probes.
NETSCOUT's probes consist of vSTREAM appliances for Observability and vCyberStream appliances for cybersecurity. This Azure-native capability for packet data capture and real-time analysis significantly enhances visibility within Azure environments.
The mirrored traffic from Azure VMs is converted by NETSCOUT’s vSTREAM and vCyberStream into Smart Data, providing profound insights into application performance and security. The Azure virtual network TAP has been tested and is fully compatible with NETSCOUT technology, offering an agentless, scalable solution for monitoring application dependencies and interactions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
It enables organizations to achieve full-stack visibility before, during, and after migrating workloads to Azure, all without the need for agent deployment or compromising performance.
nGenius Cloud vTAP for Azure
NETSCOUT delivers multi-purpose, real-time visibility and troubleshooting, with nGenius Cloud vTAP. Typically deployed in pairs, nGenius Cloud vTAP receives traffic from an Azure Load Balancer for routing and traffic acquisition purposes and forwards a copy of the traffic to a vSTREAM® virtual appliance. The vSTREAM virtual appliance then performs traffic analysis using NETSCOUT’s patented Adaptive Service Intelligence® (ASI) technology, generating Smart Data to forward to nGeniusONE® for further network and application performance analysis, views, and reporting.
Observability in Azure
NETSCOUT uses the industry's most scalable, lightweight distributed architecture to generate smart data. Through continuous monitoring and by capturing all packet data (traffic flows) traversing the hybrid cloud environment - performing simultaneous deep-packet inspection and real-time analysis – vSTREAM generates smart data at its point of collection. vSTREAM seamlessly operates with NETSCOUT’s nGeniusONE solution to gain a centralized view into the performance characteristics of all infrastructure and application components and their dependencies across geographically dispersed data centers and cloud environments.
Cybersecurity in Azure with Advanced Network Detection and Response
Strengthen security posture and mitigate risk with the NETSCOUT Omnis Cyber Security solution for Azure. NETSCOUT Omnis vCyberStream turns packet data into Smart Data, i.e., security metadata, used by NETSCOUT OCI. Smart Data and global threat intelligence feeds are used to proactively examine security risks in complex infrastructures. nGenius Cloud vTAP provides an efficient method for mirroring network traffic to vCyberStream. NETSCOUT OCI can export its findings to SIEM and SOAR platforms. Security events seen in NETSCOUT OCI are reported in these platforms and provide contextual drilldowns to the details in NETSCOUT OCI.
NETSCOUT solutions provide a foundation for common situational awareness for NetOps, SecOps and other IT groups. In addition, NETSCOUT certified on Azure VMware Solution allows IT teams to accelerate workload migration with confidence. Read the blog to learn more about NETSCOUT on Azure VMware solution.
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NETSCOUT Support Information
- NETSCOUT technical assistance provides different service offerings depending on the customer’s license type.
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Please visit NETSCOUT support page for details about Mastercare support.
- Bring Your Own License (BYOL) customers may receive NETSCOUT MasterCare support if they have an active NETSCOUT MasterCare Agreement.