In the film Limitless, the main character Eddie finds himself able to learn and analyze information at a superhuman rate. He temporarily has the ability to instantly and meaningfully cross-correlate all of the previously forgotten experiences from his past (1) and assess multiple scenarios in the future. He does this simply by taking a pill.
I don't have a pill for you, and I'm not going to claim any product can make you Limitless. However, I will say Cisco Tetration Analytics comes closer than anything in the industry to delivering similar capabilities!
What Is Tetration Analytics?
"You know how they say we can only access 20 percent of our brain? This lets you access all of it." (2)
Cisco Tetration Analytics provides pervasive and unprecedented visibility across the data center, via a mix of network/hardware sensors that monitor every single packet at line rate and server/software sensors with very low overhead (<1% CPU). The sensors work with an analytics engine that operates in real time, presenting actionable insights with easy to understand visuals. Additionally, it provides application dependencies, automated white-list policy recommendations, policy impact analysis, detection of policy deviation and network flow forensics. That's a mouthful, but the essence of it is Tetration Analytics is as close as you're going to get to becoming Limitless in your data center.
What Problems Does Tetration Analytics Address?
"I was blind but now I see." (2)
You know the trends, so I won't babble incessantly about them here. The bottom line is that running a data center is increasingly challenging, with tons of apps, as well as dynamic traffic patterns, workloads and consumption models... all of which lead to seemingly infinite complexity. This leads to numerous challenges:
Show me what it's for
Make me understand it
I've been crawling in the dark
Looking for the answer
Is there something more
Than what I've been handed?
Yep, there is more than what you've been handed, that will provide answers to these problems and help you understand. But it's not a pill.It's a time machine for your data center that lets you easily replay the past, reveal the present, and plan for the future.It's called Tetration Analytics.
How Does Tetration Analytics Address These Problems & How Does It Help You?
"I see every scenario...It puts me 50 moves ahead of you." (2)
In a perfect world, we would be able to rewind what has happened in thepast, view what is happening in thepresentin realtime, and model what could happen in thefuture. H.G. Wells foretold of this capability back in 1895 when he wrote The Time Machine. Granted, he probably wasn't thinking about data centers when he wrote it, but if he had, the storyline may have gone something like this:
What if you had complete visibility into everything, in real-time?
What if you had a time machine for your data center?
You could look at the past and replay events in real time.
You could plan for the future, and see the consequences of a new policy before you commit to it.
It's not a 'what if.' It's called Cisco Tetration Analytics, and it's unlike anything you've ever seen.
You can see this storyline brought alive in avery cool video. It's only 2 minutes -check it out!
Tetration Analytics is able to address the problems above and provide these new capabilities because it allows you to do things you previously could not. You can:
So, as I said up front, I don't have a pill for you. However, I can offer you Tetration Analytics. And though I can't say your powers will be Limitless, I can say that Tetration Analytics will give you the best semblance of a Time Machine for your Data Center the industry has ever seen.
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