11/02/2018
Network Packet Brokers (NPB) are at a juncture where they have to make critical decisions to expand use cases and pivot to new areas for expansion as the Network Visibility Monitoring (NVM) finite size market gets saturated.
At the same time, bottom-up pressure from new visibility architectures (fabric based replication, white-box switches with SDx) continue to erode the hardware margins while the top-down pressure (embedded agent based and cloud based mechanisms) continue to threaten the install base with opex based offerings.
The challenge NPB vendors face is that in which direction they pivot more and enable more - security vs. performance management?, while not intruding the space of NetOps or SecOps tool vendors. At the same time, how you build value on-top that continues to justify the need for such solutions?
To make it more complex, the NPM and Security paradigms are themselves shifting toward more distributed architectures, automation and AI - and a single plug-point NPB cannot scale with it the way it is.
As the CIO/CISO level, they don't quite want to double-spend and want more consolidation, simplicity and intelligence. Hence it is critical that the vendors tie the Network Data to the Value Chain.
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