Maintaining visibility and control of your distributed edge network

Edge computing is becoming mainstream, according to Gartner. Why? For future business success, enterprise networks need to deliver high-quality customer experiences and ensure their application and infrastructures can maintain and uphold simplified access for their produced content, applications, and IoT devices.

Enterprises must ensure that their edge network resources such as computing, database, and storage capacity are readily available and perform at their optimum level to guarantee web-scale on-demand access with low latency. Ultimately, all this to achieve these essential goals: 

• Create and maintain exceptional user experiences by leveraging actionable insight from Layer 2 to 7, from deep in the core, to the cloud, and the user edge.
• Cut costs by eliminating network and application performance blind spots to ensure the delivery of high-value services. 
• Avoid slowdowns and costly downtime by proactively monitoring networked applications using NPM/APM technologies and working with a partner you can trust.

Edge computing isn’t just about latency

As enterprises move their applications closer to the edge and utilize a new breed of latency-sensitive applications, they can address new use cases but can also produce new data patterns that require an edge network. This is not only distributed across a wide area but often runs on third-party infrastructure that give less direct visibility and control to enterprise IT.

Being able to have clarity and control across all regions and all networks (core, hybrid, data centers, cloud, VMs, and containers) is now table stakes in any enterprise IT environment.  

Edge: an extension of the cloud

Several years ago, the edge was a relatively simple idea for all enterprises, wherever IT infrastructure was deployed: be it the central office, a remote branch, private, public or hybrid cloud. Moving data to and from the edge involved the use of a clearly defined network infrastructure and data management systems, nearly all of which were carefully configured and tested regularly for optimal performance.  

Today’s edge network is known as “Multi-Access Edge Compute, the Micro Data Center, or the Mini DC.” The enterprise worker is expecting an “always-on,” fast real-time performance for a wide range of next-generation apps and services.

Having the capability to push compute and ensuring storage is as close as possible to the end-user is now expected, especially with the new norm of remote working.

Gain maximum visibility of your edge and make faster and more informed business decisions

This trend of putting the data closer to the user on edge networks will require the latest in intelligent predictive analytics that can securely capture an enormous amount of unstructured network and application data to guarantee network, application, and infrastructure performance at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).

The Skylight solution enables easy integration with other data sources and monitoring tools using Open APIs, making it vendor and platform agnostic.

Skylight is a highly scalable, simple to set up, and easy-to-use solution, providing real-time intelligence into the performance and experience for every cloud platform, link, app, and user across complex networks and multi-cloud deployments.

Skylight also includes the latest-generation analytics and machine learning to harness the untapped value of performance data generated by your network, services, and applications, captured by Skylight sensors.