Ixia First to Deliver End-to-End Visibility for All Leading Public Cloud Platforms

Ixia First to Deliver End-to-End Visibility
for All Leading Public Cloud Platforms

CloudLens, World’s First
Software-as-a-Service, Network-Level, Cloud-Native Visibility Solution

SINGAPORE – September 27, 2017 – Ixia, a Keysight
Business and leading provider of
network visibility and security solutions, today announced it has further
extended the CloudLens™ Visibility Platform to include support for Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Bluemix, and Alibaba Cloud, in addition to the existing support for
Amazon Web Services (AWS), and for both Windows and Linux.  As a result,
Ixia CloudLens is now the first visibility solution to support all leading
cloud platforms with multiple operating systems.

IT infrastructures are transforming into a mix
of self-hosted applications and cloud-based services on multiple cloud
platforms. As business data is exchanged among on-premises applications in
private data centers and applications running in multiple public clouds,
end-to-end visibility extending across the hybrid environment is a challenge.
The lack of granular access to cloud traffic, regardless of the cloud service
provider, creates blind spots in the network which could compromise application
performance or security, resulting in a degraded customer experience and
increased network security risk.

Ixia CloudLens provides comprehensive visibility
across cloud environments—public, private, and hybrid clouds, and is the first
to be delivered as a pure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. CloudLens was
designed from the ground up to retain the benefits of the cloud – elastic
scale, flexibility, and agility, while enabling security, analytics, and
forensics tools to acquire the needed data, whether the tool is in a private
data center or public cloud.

“Hybrid and multi-cloud environments create
challenges for security teams who need to manage multiple segments, and no
longer have the packet visibility to secure their network,” stated Dan
Thormodsgaard, CTO and Co-Founder at Fishtech Group. “Ixia CloudLens solves
this challenge with a cloud-agnostic platform that supports AWS, Azure, IBM,
and more, and is capable of supporting Windows and Linux as well. This
flexibility enables CloudLens to provide access to packet level data coupled
with a simple way to centrally manage across platforms. As a result of the Ixia
and Fishtech Group partnership, CloudLens delivers access to packet data, and
tech partners such as ProtectWise and Perch provide automated threat detection,
enabling organizations to secure their clouds.”

CloudLens Public enables customers to: 

CloudLens has a micro-services based,
serverless design, which enables it to seamlessly function in any public cloud
deployment.  Supporting rapid elastic scale and self-serve installations
for tenants, it eliminates the need for cloud provider involvement. CloudLens
operates without network constraints and does not rely on hypervisor- or
provider-specific features in public or private clouds for both virtualized
and physical networks.

Ixia works with leading security, APM, and NPM
tool providers, including open source providers, to pre-validate CloudLens
interoperability. This ensures a seamless experience for CloudLens users to
ensure complete visibility into cloud environments:  Technology partners
include:  AppNeta, The Bro Project, CA Technologies,
Dynatrace, Eastwind Networks, FireEye, Jask, LogRhythm, NetFort Technologies,
NTOP, ProtectWise, Perch Security, RSA Security, Savvius, Sinefa, Suricata,
Wireshark, and VoIPmonitor.

“Ixia understands
that IT decision makers need to implement and manage viable
hybrid networks, and operate in a business environment where
application performance is essential to generating revenue and maintaining
customer relationships,” states Bethany Mayer, President of Ixia.
 “That’s why we developed CloudLens – a single cloud native
visibility platform that eliminates blind spots throughout the entire
spectrum from cloud to physical environment, enabling our customers to
improve the effectiveness of monitoring tools, while
delivering better intelligence to reduce mission-critical
application downtime.”

About Ixia

Ixia, a Keysight
Business, provides testing, visibility, and security solutions to strengthen
networks and cloud environments for enterprises, service providers, and network
equipment manufacturers. Ixia offers organizations trusted environments in
which to develop, deploy, and operate. Customers worldwide rely on Ixia to
verify their designs, optimize their performance, and ensure protection of
their networks and cloud environments. Learn more at www.ixiacom.com.

About Keysight
Technologies

Keysight Technologies
is a leading technology company that helps its engineering, enterprise and
service provider customers optimize networks and bring electronic products to
market faster and at a lower cost. Keysight’s solutions go where the electronic
signal goes, from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing
test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span
the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive,
energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight
generated revenues of $2.9B in fiscal year 2016. In April 2017, Keysight
acquired Ixia, a leader in network test, visibility, and security. More
information is available at www.keysight.com.

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