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Tetration Analytics: A Limitless Time Machine For Your Data Center
November 03, 2016 | 08:00 / Interesting information
Cisco’s entrance into the data center analytics market with the introduction of Tetration is the culmination of two years worth of wrangling various open source projects and developing proprietary algorithms in the areas of big data, streaming analytics and machine learning.
The new product, Cisco Tetration Analytics Platform, gives customers pervasive and complete visibility across the data center and displays the information visually so it’s easy to understand. The Tetration appliance gathers data from either software or hardware sensors. The software sensors are installed on hosts, including virtual machines and bare metal servers.
This first release will support Windows and Linux hosts. Future releases will include support for hypervisors and containers.
The hardware sensors are embedded into the new Davos ASICs that power the Nexus 9200-X and 9300-EX network switches. The ASIC-based flow data can be captured at line rate from all the ports. Doing this in an ASIC is key, as other forms of flow information, such as NetFlow, need to sample every 30 seconds or even a minute, meaning huge chunks of data will be missed. The hardware sensors capture every flow.
In addition to network and host information, Tetration can pull in data from a number of third-party sources, including load balancers, IP watch lists, geo-location information and others. Current partners include ServiceNow, Infoblox, vArmour and Tufin.
