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. Use the GigaStor calculator to estimate what size is right for your organization.

Storing up to 5 PB 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. 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, 40 Gb, OC, and Fibre Channel networks.

Save Troubleshooting Time

GigaStor's retrospective network analysis (RNA) capabilities give you the benefit of perfect hindsight for attacking every network problem and anomaly. With continually captured data, GigaStor makes it easy to rewind your network, determine the problem source, perform comprehensive analysis and move on.

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 and video calls
• Investigate and document compliance violations

See RNA Explained

Introducing, Sustained 10 Gb Wire Speed

The latest GigaStor is the first of its kind to provide long-term packet capture that saves to disk at wire speed on a fully saturated, full-duplex 10 Gb network.

• Designed for transaction-heavy enterprises
• Manage the performance of data center applications
• Ensure the success of new technology deployments
• Stores 144 TB

This GigaStor appliance includes two ports for monitoring, and features the Network Instruments’ engineered Gen2 capture card. Use the GigaStor Calculator to estimate which GigaStor you’ll need to keep up with 10 Gb demands.

See the 10 Gb speed test report by Tolly.

For more information or to evaluate the new GigaStor 10 Gb wire-speed appliance,
e-mail sales@networkinstruments.com.

Field Flexibility

Introducing our fastest and most efficient lines of GigaStor. These 5U boxes, designed exclusively by Network Instruments, allow for improved storage efficiency, saving you space and decreasing your data center footprint.

     GigaStor Upgradeable
     GigaStor Expandable
     GigaStor 10 Gb Wire Speed

For more information review the tech specs, use the GigaStor Calculator or contact a Network Instruments representative.

Drill Down on Problems

In an enterprise, minutes of downtime can quickly multiply into hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars lost. With terabytes of stored data, it's critical to be able to sift through the data and pinpoint the problematic transactions.

Use GigaStor's unique time-based navigation and comprehensive expert analysis to quickly drill down from high-level issues to perform root-cause analysis. From an enterprise-wide view, you can track bandwidth utilization, network Top Talkers, application metrics, NetFlow data, and even VoIP and video quality statistics. Then use expert analysis to isolate the problem cause and find potential resolutions.

Ensure Successful Application Deployments

In large-scale deployments of new applications like unified communications, IT staff shouldn't neglect performing predeployment assessments or baseline analysis. Use GigaStor’s trending reports to define normal network and application behavior and establish baselines. Configure alarms to alert IT staff when performance deviates from the norm.

When you're alerted to an application problem, investigate deeper with GigaStor's in-depth application analysis and experts.

With GigaStor:

• Isolate transaction issues
• Identify latency concerns
• Track server delay
• Monitor application-specific errors

Learn more about ensuring smooth application roll outs and performance.

Troubleshoot Your Highest Speed Networks Networks

We take unparalleled efforts to ensure your ability to capture and process network data on 10 Gb and 40 Gb networks. We design and manufacture our Gen2 capture card to be the fastest available, supporting full-duplex data rates.. 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.

• Optimized for 10 Gb and 40 Gb Analysis
• Onboard hardware filtering and deduplication
• Data and analysis processed on the GigaStor probe
• Ensure timestamp accuracy within 150 ns
• Scales up to 12 ports
• Reduce instrumentation complexity
• Synchronized clocks across all ports for more accurate timing analysis
• Store up to 5 PB of packet-level data

Investigate Security and Compliance Issues

GigaStor plays a critical role in data mining, network investigations, and data-retention compliance by providing a separately stored, unaltered view of network traffic. If an anomaly or intrusion occurs, GigaStor can identify data accessed and reconstruct the event. This includes the reconstruction of web pages, VoIP conversations, video calls, attachments, and e-mails.

In addition, GigaStor offers GeoIP Capture which enables security teams to quickly determine relevant information about an IP address that is exhibiting suspicious or questionable activity including physical location and country of origin along with key parameters like service provider.

With these capabilities, GigaStor augments your existing infrastructure security initiatives such as firewalls, anti-virus and Data Loss Protection (DLP), acting as a backstop to those solutions. In the event they are compromised or fail to prevent an intrusion, GigaStor can find and eliminate the threat.

Extending the Power of NetFlow

Using NetFlow in New Environments
Use GigaStor to produce NetFlow from any device in any network environment, including servers and non-NetFlow capable routers and switches. GigaStor captures and converts packets into NetFlow data flows, pushing them to reporting applications.

Moving beyond NetFlow Statistics
NetFlow cannot solve network or application problems. When metrics indicate a problem, use GigaStor to conduct detailed back-in-time investigations. By capturing and saving every packet, GigaStor provides a detailed packet-level view of the problem occurrence. Replaying network activity eliminates problem recreation and provides efficient resolution.

Manage Multiple Tools

Capture packets with GigaStor and effortlessly launch alternate solutions to manage and investigate performance issues on the network.

• Mine data and automatically launch analysis of data within third-party tools alongside Observer analytics.
• GigaStor captures can be sent to  IPS/IDS and security devices, compliance and forensic tools, and other network analyzers

Field Options

GigaStor is now the industry’s largest and fastest retrospective analysis solution on the market. It is available in a variety of form factors that scale to meet your needs.

Model	Storage Capacity
GigaStor Standard 2 TB & 4 TB	2-4 TB
GigaStor Portable	2-4 TB
GigaStor Upgradeable	8-48 TB
GigaStor Expandable	48-5 PB
GigaStor 10 Gb Wire Speed	144 TB
GigaStor SAN	Offload to SAN

Not sure which GigaStor you need? Use our GigaStor calculator to explore your options.

Technical Specifications

All GigaStor appliances include a local Observer Expert console and can connect to any Observer Expert or Suite on the network.

To ensure high-speed capture, each system includes the Network Instruments-designed, full-duplex Gen2 capture card with multiple-link support.

Each unit also includes a separate O/S hard disk, all required cabling, a multi-processor system with Windows XP Pro 64-bit Edition, or Server 2008 Operating System, a 10/100/1000 Ethernet management port, and a DVD+/- RW DL. Each unit supports multiple topologies: Gigabit, 10 Gb, Fibre Channel, WAN, or OC.

Model	Storage Capacity
GigaStor Standard 2 TB 4 TB	2-4 TB
GigaStor Portable	2-4 TB
GigaStor Upgradeable	8-48 TB
GigaStor Expandable	48-5 PB
GigaStor 10 Gb Wire Speed	144 TB
GigaStor SAN	Offload to SAN

Not sure which GigaStor you need? Use our GigaStor calculator to explore your options.