GigaStor

Rewind Your Network

Stop missing critical network events. Instead, rewind your network to quickly troubleshoot sporadic performance problems.

The GigaStor network recorder provides massive data collection and unique time-based analysis that eliminate the need to recreate problems, rapidly decreasing resolution time.

Storing up to 288 TB of network data for days, weeks, or months, our network recorder eliminates finger-pointing between network and application teams by providing proof of what occurred. How much storage do you need? Use our Network Forensics Storage Calculator

Use GigaStor to navigate to the exact moment a problem happened, and see a detailed packet-level view of before, during, and after the occurrence. Monitor LAN, WAN, Ethernet, Gigabit, 10 Gb, OC, and Fibre Channel networks.

In order to minimize network overhead, data processing and analysis occurs at the GigaStor probe rather than by pulling captures over the network for processing at the console.

The appliance includes a unique time-based navigation utility to easily investigate network issues.The GigaStor can also be used as a network forensics tool with features such as Stream Reconstruction, offering the ability to recreate hard evidence such as e-mails, web pages, or instant messages.

What is Retrospective Network Analysis?

Retrospective network analysis allows you to quickly browse backwards through massive amounts of network traffic to view breaches and anomalies as they happened, within the context of other activity on the network.

Now you can avoid the labor-intensive step of re-creating problems to troubleshoot them.

Traditional packet capture gives administrators insight into networks via packet-level decode and analysis. While these tools are useful in managing mid- to enterprise-level networks, using them to provide administrators enough information to solve subtle or sporadic problems is difficult.

RNA acts like a 24/7 surveillance camera—it is far easier to find the culprit using a stored video of the crime rather than one photograph.

Your Network Recorder
With continually captured data, GigaStor makes it easy to “rewind” your network, determine problem sources, and perform analysis. Retrospective network analysis speeds troubleshooting and provides long-term corporate-wide benefits.

By removing the guesswork and the need to start a packet capture, RNA greatly speeds network troubleshooting and provides long-term corporate-wide benefits.

With retrospective network analysis:

• Quickly isolate and resolve network and application issues
• Ensure successful application deployments
• Reconstruct and troubleshoot VoIP calls
• Investigate and document compliance violations

Investigate Security and Compliance Issues

GigaStor plays a critical role in data mining, network investigations, and data-retention compliance. The GigaStor network recorder provides you with a separately stored, unaltered view of network traffic that you can play back to investigate connections and transactions exactly as they happened.

Is it the Network, the Application, or Security?

GigaStor's forensic capabilities let you diagnose and resolve network problems through retrospective network analysis. GigaStor operates like a security camera, recording everything traversing the network.

GigaStor Security Forensics determines if a security breach occurred by comparing historical traffic against thousands of Snort rules to identify attacks and anomalies.

GigaStor provides drill-down analysis to determine the source and time of breaches.

• View breaches exactly as they happened
• Identify compromised machines and network infrastructure
• Drill down for packet-level forensic analysis
• Reconstruct mined data
• Provide evidence for compliance and security issues

GigaStor plays a significant role in data mining, network forensics, and data-retention compliance.

It provides a separate and unaltered view of network activity that can be played back to investigate connections and transactions.

GigaStor can reconstruct mined data, providing hard evidence such as VoIP phone conversations, web pages, documents, and e-mails.

 

Distributed Appliance Options

The GigaStor is a complete system and reports to any Expert Observer or Observer Suite console.The appliance may also be licensed as an RMON/HCRMON probe, which can report to any Observer Suite or RMON/HCRMON console.

Storing up to 288 TB of network data for days, weeks, or months, our network recorder eliminates finger-pointing between network and application teams by providing proof of what occurred.

GigaStor is available in a variety of form factors to meet your organization's retrospective network analysis needs.

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First Self-Contained Mobile Forensics System

Depend on the GigaStor Portable for troubleshooting network and application problems wherever they occur. GigaStor Portable ends the hours of problem resolution and finger-pointing by providing engineers with a detailed packet-level view of the network before, during, and after problems occur.

Available for all common network topologies including Gigabit, 10 Gb, WAN, OC, and Fibre Channel. Includes either 2 TB or 4 TB of total storage

With Portable Analyzer Systems:

• Capture days worth of packet-level data
• Isolate network issues quickly
• Reconstruct data streams
• Troubleshoot intermittent performance issues
• Obtain an independent look at data flow
• Gain real-time metrics
• Perform retrospective network analysis

Each System Includes:

• Observer Suite software
• Custom adapter (on select models)
  
• 10/100/1000 Ethernet management port
• All required cabling and TAPs