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Gigamon Strengthens the Unified Visibility Fabric Architecture with New Offerings
May 6, 2013 - Additions to Service, Management and Applications Layers Enhance Visibility
Silicon Valley, CALIF., May 6, 2013 – Gigamon®, a leader in network traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Visibility Fabric™ architecture, today announced the availability of a new Visibility Fabric node, the GigaVUE-HB1 for branch offices and the implementation of a new Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Gigamon’s H Series product line, as well as a proof-of-concept application called FlowVUE™ which will offer flow-based correlation services.
Gigamon Announces Strategy to Provide Customers with a Unified Visibility Fabric™ Architecture
April 24, 2013 - Architecture will be Designed to Provide Unified Visibility Across Physical, Virtual and Software-Defined Networks (SDN)
Silicon Valley, CALIF., April 24, 2013 – Gigamon®, a leader in network traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Visibility Fabric™ architecture, announced today a new vision for software-defined monitoring based on a four-layer architecture. Gigamon’s strategy is to develop a unified Visibility Fabric architecture that would ultimately deliver orchestrated visibility across physical, virtual and software-defined networks (SDN). This approach will build on Gigamon’s existing architecture and the principles of SDN to provide a centralized, programmable approach that aims to bridge the gap between the raw data passing through the network and optimally presenting that data to the tools that monitor, manage, secure and ensure application and network performance.
Shehzad Merchant Joins Gigamon as Chief Strategy Officer
April 1, 2013 - Industry Veteran Brings 20 years of Experience in Innovative Networking Solutions
Silicon Valley, CALIF., April 1, 2013 – Gigamon®, a leader in traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Visibility Fabric™ architecture, announced today that enterprise networking veteran Shehzad Merchant has joined the company as Chief Strategy Officer. Merchant will be focused on developing a strategic path for the continued evolution of the company’s Visibility Fabric architecture in this exciting and fast-paced market. Merchant joins Gigamon from Extreme Networks.
Gigamon Turns Big Data into Manageable Data for Mobile Carriers
February 26, 2013 - Company Designs Technology Enabling Engaged Visibility into the Service Provider Network
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2013 – Gigamon®, a leader in traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Visibility Fabric™ architecture, announced the development of an advancement that transforms Big Data into manageable data for mobile carriers. This method is intended to facilitate a cost-effective solution for connecting single or multiple 40Gb and 100Gb pipes to 10Gb and 1Gb analytic tools.
Gigamon Addresses Big Data for Mobile Carriers
February 21, 2013 - The GigaVUE H Series Family Now Provides Big Visibility for Big Data
Milpitas, Calif., February 21, 2013 – Gigamon®, a leader in traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Visibility Fabric™ architecture, announced a holistic approach to the current Big Data challenge facing mobile carriers. With the recent additions of the GigaPORT-C01 100Gb and the GigaPORT-Q08 40Gb line cards to the GigaVUE H Series product line, Gigamon’s technology portfolio provides the volume, port density and scale needed to address network visibility in the most demanding of mobile carrier environments. These industry leading capabilities will be demonstrated live at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain.
Gigamon Announces High Density 40Gb solution to address Pervasive Visibility for Data Centers
January 28, 2013 -
The H Series family expands to support 40Gb growth in data centers
Milpitas, Calif., January 28, 2013 – Gigamon®, a leading provider of Traffic Visibility Fabric™ solutions, has announced a new high density 40Gb blade, the GigaPORT-Q08 for the GigaVUE® H Series Chassis, which further addresses the scalability and visibility needs of data center managers as they meet the challenges of increasing traffic volume within data centers. The technology will be on show at Cisco Live London '13, Jan. 28 at the ExCeL London Exhibition and Convention Centre in London, UK.
Gigamon Announces Change in Executive Leadership
December 19, 2012 - Paul Hooper named chief executive officer
Milpitas, Calif., December 19, 2012 – Gigamon®, a leading provider of Traffic Visibility Fabric™ solutions, today announced changes to the Company's executive leadership team, naming Paul Hooper as the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Previously the Company’s Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, Mr. Hooper will replace co-founder Ted Ho who is stepping down as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.
Gigamon to Provide Intelligent Visibility for 100Gb Networks
November 1, 2012 - Milpitas, Calif., November 1, 2012 – Gigamon®, a leading provider of Traffic Visibility Fabric™ solutions, demonstrated its industry leadership by announcing that it would showcase a 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100Gb) Traffic Visibility Fabric at Supercomputing 2012. The Gigamon Visibility Fabric is capable of intelligently forwarding network traffic at full line rate between nodes on 100Gb network connections, offering the ability to connect to 100Gb networks and to deliver intelligently aggregated 10Gb connections into a single 100Gb uplink to network monitoring, management and analytic tools. The technology will be on show at Supercomputing ’12, Nov. 12 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, UT. This will be Gigamon’s fourth year supporting the Supercomputing SCinet infrastructure with its Visibility Fabric.
Gigamon Delivers GigaSMART Platform for GigaVUE H Series
October 29, 2012 - New GigaSMART platform enables next phase of Visibility Fabric: Engaged Fabric
Milpitas, Calif., October 29, 2012 – Gigamon®, a leading provider of Traffic Visibility Fabric™ solutions, announced today the next phase in the evolution of the Visibility Fabric with the launch of the GigaSMART® technology in the GigaVUE® H Series of fabric nodes. The proven GigaSMART technology, which is currently available on the G Series of fabric nodes, now delivers up to 400Gb of processing capacity in the high-end GigaVUE-HD8 chassis and supports a range of GigaSMART applications to enable the deduplication, modification, manipulation and transport of network traffic as it is delivered to management, monitoring and security tools and systems. Gigamon will be showcasing its Visibility Fabric at the Cisco Live Mexico trade show, Nov. 6-8 in Cancun, Mexico.
Gigamon Elevates Investment Protection with Higher Capacity Next Generation Control Card
October 1, 2012 - Milpitas, Calif., October 1, 2012 – Gigamon®, a leading provider of Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, announced today the next generation of its Control Card for the H Series GigaVUE® Traffic Visibility Fabric™ Nodes.
News Articles
Arrow Signs North American Distribution Agreement With Gigamon
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arrow Electronics Inc. (NYSE: ARW) today signed a distribution agreement with Gigamon®, a leader in traffic visibility solutions, to deliver the GigaVUE™ portfolio of solutions for network traffic management. The GigaVUE solutions create an intelligent and pervasive Visibility Fabric™ architecture to deliver traffic flows from across broad networks to appropriate, centralized management, monitoring or security systems.
Gigamon Teams with Spirent to Demonstrate 100Gb Visibility Fabric at Supercomputing '12
November 12, 2012 - MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gigamon®, a leading provider of Traffic Visibility Fabric™ solutions, has teamed with Spirent Communications to showcase the scale and quality of the Gigamon Visibility Fabric for 100Gb networks with Spirent's testing solution at Supercomputing '12, which will be held Nov. 12 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, UT. Gigamon booth #109
What’s Holding Back Major Market Adoption of Cloud Services?
October 10, 2012 - A colleague recently asked, “Is the hype around cloud computing dying off?” The question caught me off-guard, as every day of my week I come across new opportunities to position technology into multi-tenant, outsourced, provider-managed, virtualized, automated and self-service application infrastructure. Based on every current trend, no one could conclude that IT architects are trying to consume more server iron and get less out of their existing IT assets.
Inside Networks: The Network Infrastructure E-Magazine (Page 28)
October 10, 2012 - David Reoch - Senior Director Cloud Solutions discusses cloud computing and associated technologies. (Page 28)
Low latency roundup: Colt, Gigamon and Hibernia Atlantic
July 3, 2012 - Colt reduces latency to Madrid – and connects new cities in Spain, Gigamon digs deep into algo trading, Hibernia moves into Equinix in Japan
Gigamon has partnered with Velocimetrics to extend its Traffic Visibility Fabric to include the analysis of business flows including market data, prices, quotes and trades for real-time transaction analysis which can be fed back to the infrastructure operator.
Chaos looms for network monitoring
June 27, 2012 - Network monitoring and security tools are struggling to keep pace at current network speeds between 1GBps and 10GBps, and as organisations step up to optic-enabled speeds of 40GBps to 100 GBps, chaos looms.
10 Noteworthy Products On View At Cisco Live
June 12, 2012 - Gigamon had several recent products on hand, including the new GigaVue-VM fabric node -- the latest in a series of Gigamon offerings intended to enable virtual environment monitoring in much the same way physical data centers are monitored.
Gigamon puts Polycom boss Andrew Miller on board
May 23, 2012 - Gigamon added Andrew Miller, CEO of Polycom Inc., to its board of directors May 3. The Milpitas company waited until May 23 to publicize the move. Miller has been president and CEO of Pleasanton's Polycom (NASDAQ: PLCM) for two years this month. Before that company hired him he worked at IPC Information Systems LLC and Monster Worldwide Inc. He also worked at Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), which bought "telepresence" business Tandberg ASA where Miller was CEO.
HP Lawyer Jumps to Network Security Company as GC
May 16, 2012 - Paul Shinn, a former associate general counsel at Hewlett-Packard Co., left to join Gigamon as its first general counsel Monday. "It was the right career for me at the right time," Shinn said. "It was a chance to be a general counsel, and all the right things lined up." Founded in 2003, Milpitas-based Gigamon makes equipment that helps customers monitor their networks' security and performance.
Traffic Visibility Fabric Node Extends to Virtualized Environments
May 15, 2012 - GigaVUE-VM fabric node extends intelligent traffic visibility, selection, and filtering into virtualized environments to enable monitoring by same tools as physical data centers. Node bridges virtual/physical boundary and allows selected virtual machine (VM) traffic to be intelligently identified and directed to physical network management, analysis, or security tools
