Arista Introduces Universal Network Observability
- CV UNO offers unique systems-level capabilities to reduce enterprise risk, enable rapid fault detection and correction, simplify cross-functional coordination, and hasten time-to-recovery.
- Key benefits include automatic discovery of applications, hosts, and workloads, proactive risk analysis, real-time network change impact analysis, host or application change impact analysis, and topology-aware determination.
- CV UNO components include CV UNO Sensor, CV UNO Recorder Node, CV UNO Service Node, and CV UNO Analytics Node, with general availability as a premium option on CloudVision scheduled for Q2 2024.
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Insights
The introduction of Arista Networks' CloudVision Universal Network Observability (CV UNO) system represents a significant advancement in the realm of network management solutions. With its AI-driven proactive analysis and prescriptive recommendations, CV UNO is positioned to address a critical market need for improved network visibility and faster issue resolution. The software's ability to merge data from network infrastructure and compute/server systems to offer insights into application performance is a competitive differentiator that could influence Arista's market share and revenue growth.
From a market perspective, the demand for network observability tools is on the rise due to the increasing complexity of IT environments and the need for stringent regulatory compliance. Arista's move to integrate observability across various network domains aligns with the industry's shift towards comprehensive IT solutions. This could potentially lead to an expansion of their customer base, particularly among enterprises seeking to streamline operations and enhance cybersecurity measures.
Arista Networks' announcement of CV UNO as a premium feature license on CloudVision could have a material impact on the company's financials. Licensing this advanced feature could result in higher average revenue per user (ARPU) as existing customers upgrade their services and new customers are attracted by the enhanced capabilities. This software offering is likely to contribute to Arista's revenue diversification strategy, reducing reliance on hardware sales and increasing the proportion of recurring revenue from software licenses and subscriptions.
Investors should monitor the adoption rate post-launch in Q2 2024, as it will be a critical indicator of the product's market acceptance and its potential to contribute to Arista's top-line growth. The capital expenditure associated with the development and marketing of CV UNO may impact short-term financials, but if successful, the long-term benefits could include improved profit margins and shareholder value.
CV UNO's emphasis on cybersecurity and regulatory compliance is particularly relevant in the current environment where data breaches and cyber threats are prevalent. The system's ability to provide a composite picture of the network and application environment, coupled with proactive risk analysis, positions it as a robust tool for enterprise security postures. By enabling rapid fault detection and correction without deploying host-based agents, CV UNO could become an essential component for enterprises looking to comply with stringent security regulations and protect against potential cyber threats.
For businesses, the implementation of CV UNO could mean a reduction in the time and resources spent on managing security incidents and compliance reporting. This streamlined approach to cybersecurity could enhance operational efficiency and reduce the total cost of ownership for maintaining a secure IT infrastructure.
Arista’s CloudVision® Universal Network Observability™ (CV UNO™) system, available as a premium feature license on Arista CloudVision, enables the automation of network, systems, and application/workload visibility, coupled with AI-driven proactive analysis and prescriptive recommendations, which significantly reduces human error, accelerates issue resolution for unforeseen events, and provides precise root cause analysis of network events and their impact on application delivery.
“Bringing together multiple network domains with full application visibility and troubleshooting will streamline network operations and improve uptime and reliability. Disparate operating systems and lack of consistent data models across networks have made delivering systems with this degree of visibility previously impossible,” stated Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst at ZK Research. “Moreover, in an era characterized by stringent regulatory compliance, cybersecurity and observability throughout the enterprise is no longer optional but rather an essential imperative.”
A Novel Network Observability Solution
CV UNO delivers unique systems-level capabilities to reduce enterprise risk, allow rapid fault detection and correction, and simplify cross-functional coordination, hastening time-to-recovery whether the root cause was network, platform, systems, or application-related. Key benefits include:
Workload Application and Infrastructure Discovery: CV UNO automatically discovers applications, hosts, and workloads across various platforms and IT systems of record and inventory management systems. This holistic data, coupled with CloudVision’s deep view of the networking state within Arista Network Data Lake (NetDL™), CV UNO, presents a composite picture of the entire network and application environment. Additionally, it builds an application-to-network graph that is continuously refreshed and stored in time series to show a historical record of the environment’s evolution and state at any point in time.
Proactive Risk Analysis: With real-time application-to-network graphing, CV UNO enables proactive risk analysis as part of the change management workflow, cross-referencing, and impact analysis of network issues and anomalies. Potentially disruptive network changes can be assessed for their impact before being deployed into production and mission-critical networks.
Realtime Network Change Impact Analysis: CV UNO also delivers deep analysis and machine learning to this composite dataset within NetDL that can determine when network provisioning or state changes have affected business and critical applications. When a network change disrupts an application’s performance, CV UNO automatically identifies what change impacted which application or workload and empowers the network engineering and operations teams to remediate the issue quickly.
Host or Application Change Impact Analysis: In the case where a host or virtualization issue is impacting application performance and the network remains unchanged, CV UNO, without deploying any host-based agents, is also able to quickly direct the operator or engineer to the accurate root cause of the issue, thereby reducing the resolution time and cross-functional coordination for the operations team.
Topology-Aware Determination: By aggregating a holistic view across all infrastructure systems, virtualization machines, systems of record, and network flow and state data, CV UNO can accurately determine the root cause of application performance issues, avoiding the common finger-pointing associated with legacy approaches.
“Our customers have been demanding a composite system that provides seamless observability across network domains, prevents human errors, rapidly identifies root cause issues, and aids network engineers and operators to troubleshoot application performance issues,” stated Douglas Gourlay, VP and GM, Cloud Networking Software. “Arista’s Universal Network Observability, built upon Arista EOS® and CloudVision platforms, fulfills this critical client need.”
CV UNO Offerings and Availability
CV UNO consists of the following components:
- CV UNO Sensor collects, normalizes, and curates flow/SNMP data from various sources like VMware vCenter, DANZ Monitoring Fabric, and third-party network devices and forwards them to NetDL.
- CV UNO, enabled via a premium feature license, integrates into and enhances CloudVision’s operational and network telemetry capabilities by leveraging Machine Intelligence-based Analysis on data stored in NetDL to infer topology-aware correlations across events, changes, and anomalies, thereby accelerating root cause analysis and expediting issue resolution.
- CV UNO Recorder Node (optional) adds packet capture, query, and packet replay capabilities to support intrusion detection, incident response, and forensic use cases.
- CV UNO Service Node (optional) enables advanced packet processing functions, like end-to-end application latency analysis and DPI-based Application Identification and classification.
- CV UNO Analytics Node (optional) enables distributed context-aware traffic analysis and machine learning capabilities for large-scale optimization.
Arista’s CV UNO has been in active customer trials with general availability as a premium option on CloudVision scheduled for Q2 2024.
To learn more about CV UNO, join us for a webinar on April 4, 2024 – register here. Check out Douglas Gourlay’s blog here to read more about this announcement.
About Arista
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus, and routing environments. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics, and security through an advanced network operating stack. For more information, visit https://www.arista.com.
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