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Transform Data into Business-Advancing IntelligenceVelocimetrics // Technology Solution Brief

The Gigamon® and Velocimetrics Joint Solution Overview A variety of systems are deployed throughout the financial trading infrastructure to provide visibility to the traffic traversing production networks. These systems are only as effective as the traffic and communications that they can see; limit visibility to the traffic, and the value of the analysis or management system is equally limited. IT Managers in high-performance trading environments therefore attempt to connect the systems at the most appropriate location within the network, although the definition of “most appropriate” changes frequently due to the dynamic nature of the network and the systems connecting to that network.

As requirements on networking and infrastructure continued to demand more flexible, scalable, and versatile solutions, Gigamon pioneered a new approach to deliver pervasive and extensible visibility into the network. Understanding the criticality and priority of one communication flow over another, one application over another, and one packet over another, Gigamon created the foundation for the development of the Visibility Fabric™. The Gigamon Visibility Fabric is a truly pervasive framework, able to see across the boundary of physical and virtual, and therefore able to see into the cloud and provide the clarity that is essential to secure, maintain, and support network-based services and applications.

Providing exceptional visibility with zero impact to the production network, accompanied by performance-improving analytics, this joint solution rapidly detects potential risks, identifies inefficiencies, and reduces exposure to financial loss. Raising instant alerts and offering the business and technical data necessary to swiftly identify a problem’s root cause, this combined approach facilitates fast issue resolution.

How the Joint Solution WorksUsing Gigamon’s Visibility Fabric for accurate data collection, filtering, and nanosecond range time stamping, Velocimetrics captures the precise business information required to determine how emerging developments are impacting the firm’s clients, trades, and ultimately its profitability in real time.

Delivering detailed business insight, sliced and diced in a multitude of different ways, Velocimetrics can be used to analyze the data important to the business area of concern, understand the cause and effect of trading decisions on future developments, and examine performance levels, for example, by individual client, market, instrument, order, or trade.

This innovative approach transforms data into business advancing intelligence, enabling firms to reduce operational risk, ensure client SLA achievement, meet emerging regulatory requirements, and pinpoint opportunities to improve.

The ChallengeFaster trading, evolving regulation, and growing complexity increase the difficulty of effectively managing operational risk while sustaining a competitive edge in today’s financial markets. Undetected risks and inefficiencies leave firms exposed to financial loss.

Joint Solution Benefits• Rapidly Detect Potential Risks—Provide

exceptional visibility with zero impact, accompanied by performance improving analytics to rapidly detect potential risks to minimize financial loss

• Prioritize Critical Traffic Flows Over Nonessential Ones—Deliver only relevant traffic to reduce operational risk, ensure client SLA achievement, assist in meeting emerging regulatory requirements, and pinpoint opportunities to improve

• See Across both Physical and Virtual Borders—See into the cloud and provide the clarity that is essential to secure, maintain, and support network-based services and applications

• Analyze Business-specific Information—Determine how emerging developments are impacting the firm’s clients, trades, and ultimately its profitability in real time

• Deliver Precise Business Insight—Analyze the data important to the business area of concern, understand the cause and effect of trading decisions on future developments, and examine performance levels, for example, by individual client, market, instrument, order, or trade

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About VelocimetricsVelocimetrics enables complex financial services environments to be effectively understood, monitored and managed in real-time, with access to the detailed analytics required to quickly assess an issue’s business impact at the client, order, trade or individual payment level.

Delivering an independent, transparent and detailed view of all activities taking place across each and every system and network as they are happening, Velocimetrics achieves effective operational oversight, eliminating blind spots regardless of how complex, dynamic or geographically dispersed the infrastructure may be. By rapidly detecting potential risks, identifying inefficiencies and exposure to financial loss, Velocimetrics instantly alerts the business, before it’s too late, to issues that could adversely impact success as a situation is emerging.

About GigamonGigamon provides an intelligent Visibility Fabric™ architecture to enable the management of increasingly complex networks. Gigamon technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers and operators with pervasive visibility and control of traffic across both physical and virtual environments without affecting the performance or stability of the production network. Through patented technologies, centralized management and a portfolio of high availability and high-density fabric nodes, network traffic is intelligently delivered to management, monitoring and security systems. Gigamon solutions have been deployed globally across enterprise, data centers and service providers, including over half of the Fortune 100 and many government and federal agencies.

Learn MoreFor more information on the Velocimetrics and Gigamon solution, please contact:

Velocimetrics230 Park Avenue, 10th FloorNew York, NY 10169 Phone: +1 (212) 551-1720www.velocimetrics.com

Gigamon 3300 Olcott StreetSanta Clara, CA 95054 Phone: +1 (408) 831-4000www.gigamon.com