The first things that typically come to mind with big data are Internet search indexing, supercomputing scientific studies, and social media data analysis. But did you ever stop and consider the monitoring and performance data on your enterprise network? As 10G networking becomes the norm, and the demand for actionable network performance data increases, network monitoring and reporting solutions are facing the same big data challenges: capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying huge quantities of data. WildPackets, an industry leader in network analysis and reporting, faced these same challenges. By partnering with HP Vertica, an industry leader in the big data revolution, WildPackets addressed these big data challenges with WatchPoint, a network monitoring and reporting solution that provides mid-sized and large enterprises with a centralized, comprehensive view of their networks to support capacity planning, operations management, and network and application troubleshooting. Come join us for a 30-minute presentation and demonstration to see how you can apply WildPackets’ best-in-class analytics to your high-speed network, without compromising precision through sampling or polling, providing a single view of your network and its historical performance in unprecedented detail and scope. In this webinar, we will cover: Big data and its application to network monitoring and reporting The unique capabilities of the HP Vertica solution A 15-minute demo of WildPackets’ WatchPoint Network Monitor Solution You will learn: Why data precision must be retained throughout history How precise data feeds capacity planning, day to day operations management, and detailed network troubleshooting

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Bringing Big Data Analytics
to Network Monitoring
Marc Heimlich
Head of OEM Americas
HP Vertica

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Agenda
• Big data in network monitoring/reporting
• The HP Vertica solution
• WatchPoint Network Monitor Solution demo
‒ Data precision for a full year
‒ Capacity planning, operations management, and detailed network
troubleshooting
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Big Data in
Network Monitoring/Reporting

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Big Data in Network Monitoring

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Big Data = Precision

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The HP Vertica Solution
Realizing the value of Real-time
Big Data
Marc Heimlich
Head of OEM Americas
HP Vertica
mheimlich@vertica.com
617.455.5449

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Vertica OEM ISVs get
acquired and win awards!

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Vertica Milestones
• Developed by Postgres/Ingres Founder Mike Stonebraker
in 2005 as one of the first commercially viable columnar
databases.
• Over 2,000 Customers – HALF migrated from Oracle.
• The most established OEM Program in Big Data
• 1000’s of end-users taking advantage of Vertica
• Fastest growing analytical database in the world...
• Darling of Silicon Valley – Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Ebay,
Yahoo, Intuit…
• Over a dozen customers managing over a Petabyte of
data.
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Vertica – SQL, Relational Database –
Ideal to embed
• Performance – Simultaneous Query & Load
• Scalability – Scales up and down with ease
• Compression – Network data can be as high as 90%
• Analytics – A suite of analytics at no additional charge
• Integration – Standard ODBC, JDBC, ADO.net and UDx
• Ease of Use – Database Designer can do 95% of the tuning
• Availability – Built-in High Availability with three or more
nodes
• Architecture - 80 MB Software-only solution that runs on-
prem/cloud…
• Two minutes to install
• Price – Can be a seven figure difference relative to large Oracle
installations
Speed
Simplicity

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Vertica
Analytics
Vertica
Storage
User-defined Loads
HDFS/MR Connector
External
Tables
Extensions
In C++, R,
Java is
coming
SQL/ODBC/JDBC
ADO.net
Native
UDx
Getting the best of both worlds!

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We enable network solutions…
Industry Priorities
• Understand subscriber behavior
• Develop new services and applications
• Manage and optimize networks and
devices
• Plan network capacity and equipment
• Analyze large volumes of data – Call
Detail Records (CDRs), network,
machine data
• Enhance customer satisfaction, retention,
and profitability
Segments Served
• Communications Service Providers
• Mobile & Wireless
• Cable and Broadcasting

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Vertica’s OEM Customers…

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WildPackets – Postgres to Vertica
• Network/Application Performance Management
• 10 – 40 Gbps packet ingest
• Look at utilizations, top users, VOIP usage, top
applications
• “Vertica excelled at wide open queries”…
• Relative to Postgres:
‒ 50-150k flows/minute vs. 10k flows in Postgres
‒ Months worth of data – query response typically 10 seconds vs.
minutes…
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WatchPoint Network Monitor
Solution Demo

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Enterprise-wide Network Management

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