Case Study: Johns Hopkins Medical Institution achieves continuous network visibility and improved security with Gigamon

Johns Hopkins Medical Institution Improves Network Health with Gigamon Visibility Solution

Johns Hopkins Medical Institution — a large academic and healthcare organization supporting mission‑critical applications like medical records, patient order entry, and millions of outpatient encounters — was constrained by too few network taps and constant contention for ports among multiple IT and security groups. The fragmentation meant feeds were repeatedly reconfigured, visibility was inconsistent, and uptime and reliability requirements made changes risky.

Deploying Gigamon’s Deep Observability platform (GigaVUE‑FM, GigaVUE HC, GigaSMART, GigaVUE TA and G‑TAP) provided scalable tap aggregation, per‑group configurable feeds, and flexible inline or out‑of‑band placement. The result: continuous, tailored monitoring across locations, reduced port contention, improved IDS/firewall performance, easy scaling to hundreds of ports, and stable operation with negligible support needs.

Johns Hopkins Medical Institution

Alan Shackelford

Senior Software Systems Engineer, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution