Case Study: Government Agency achieves software-based Smart Visibility for hybrid-cloud service assurance with NETSCOUT

Extending Data Center Performance Monitoring with Software-Based Smart Visibility

A federal agency with a 24x7 mission and hundreds of central and remote sites needed end-to-end security and performance visibility as it consolidated data centers and migrated mission‑critical applications to a hybrid cloud (AWS, Cisco ACI, VMware). With strict capital constraints and existing reliance on NetFlow at remote locations, the IT team lacked the integrated monitoring needed to manage application performance and security across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

The agency deployed NETSCOUT’s nGeniusONE service assurance platform with InfiniStreamNG appliances, vSTREAM‑EMB, nGenius Collector Virtual Appliance, nGenius for Flows, and nGeniusPULSE to convert wire and NetFlow data into unified “smart data.” This software-based visibility delivered a single-pane view across the hybrid environment, enabling faster isolation and resolution of issues, smoother rollouts of mission-critical apps, reduced MTTR, and lower overall monitoring costs.