Gigamon Ensures PCI Compliance for Major Retailer

Managing a very large, disparate enterprise demands an equally complex network infrastructure. Ensuring the availability and acceptable level of performance, 24/7 is critical. The retailer’s IT staff relied on traditional tools, such as sniffers, to monitor network performance via TAPs and SPAN ports. But there simply weren’t enough tools to monitor all the data streams all the time. Technicians had to obtain permission from change management to schedule tool moves from one port to another, which caused delays in responding to troubleshooting and monitoring needs. Purchasing additional tools to expand coverage was simply not in the budget.