cPacket Networks announced a new addition to its cStor series
packet capture appliances in support of the latest data center
consolidation, 100Gbps migration, and cyber security requirements. The
new cStor 100 appliance
raises the bar for the industry by setting the new standard for
capturing, storing, and analyzing the network packet data at up to
100Gbps speed with advanced analytics. The cStor family already supports
capture at 40, 25, 15, and 10Gbps as well as a virtual/cloud version up
to 10Gbps.
"Many
of our existing customers are consolidating their data centers as they
move a part of their workloads into the cloud. They want to upgrade
their data center infrastructure to 100Gbps to meet current and future
business requirements. cPacket's being early to 100Gbps observability
helps our customers go through this change uneventfully," said Brendan
O'Flaherty, CEO of cPacket Networks.
Network
speeds have been steadily increasing (networking analyst firm the
Dell'Oro Group predicts that 25 and 100Gbps Ethernet ports will make up
78 percent of the Controller and Adapter market by 2024) driven by
high-performance workloads. Digital transformation and remote work due
to Covid-19 have only accelerated these trends. The new cStor 100 appliance
provides organizations with the deep, comprehensive, and actionable
insights they need to align with the industry trends around digital
transformation, cloud migration, and remote work.
"While
most of the industry is still hovering around or below 40Gbps capture
rates, you can find a few products that claim higher performance. What
is really lacking is a well-rounded solution that can capture at 100Gbps
speed while delivering impactful analytics and supporting simultaneous
data search," said Nadeem Zahid, VP of Product Management at cPacket
Networks. "You can fill the storage really fast and accumulate lots of
data at 100Gbps. Finding the right packets fast in the case of
root-cause analysis or a security breach makes a lot of difference for a
business."
Product details
The cStor 100 appliance
provides 100Gbps burst with sustained 60Gbps capture-to-disk throughput
along with 288TB of on-board storage (extensible up to 2PB) so
organizations can capture, store, replay, and analyze high speed network
traffic as the ultimate source of truth for troubleshooting issues,
security forensics, incident response, and compliance - as packets do
not lie.
- Built for high-performance, low-latency networks, and intensive workloads. The cStor 100 appliance
provides flow analytics, TCP stateful analysis, RTP analysis, VPN
analysis, market data gap detection, one-way latency, and other
value-added analytics at high-speeds for mission-critical environments
and network operation centers.
- Effective incident response through Network Detection and Response. The cStor 100 appliance
is an effective security forensics tool for providing before, during,
and after packet data in correlation with security incidents. By
integrating with industry leading threat detection and mitigation
solutions such as Vectra, Corelight, Palo Alto Networks, and Fortinet,
the cStor 100 appliance extends the life, effectiveness, and return-on-investment for the security tools.
- Added security and privacy with Self-Encrypting Drives. Separate versions of the cStor 100 appliance
with self-encrypting drives (SED) are available to meet additional
security and privacy requirements for the public, government, financial,
healthcare, and other sensitive deployments.
All new products are now available from cPacket directly or its channel partners.