Establishing the Big Data Connection

Establishing the Big Data Connection

Many network vendors will tell you that their network equipment is built for Big Data. However, once deployed, do you have enough Big Data context to effectively monitor, troubleshoot, triage and tune your network? In most cases the answer is no! When designing and deploying a network, administrators must consider whether this network will provide enough Big Data context?

Before we go any further let’s define BIG DATA context.

BIG DATA context is the ability to correlate Big Data events and protocols back to network events and protocols and to be able to classify BIG DATA network flows correctly. To establish the Big Data Connection, we’re going to discuss the requirements to ensure a network is in the class of networks that have Big Data context, how administrators can possibly achieve this, and the role network programmability and agility play in this discussion.

Now let us see how we can build BIG DATA context and act on it.

Building Big Data Context
Network monitoring, tracing, visibility and reporting with Big Data context is accomplished with network equipment that is able to export flow statistics, counters and flow DBs and leverage open systems to classify such Continue reading