As digital transformation accelerates and AI/ML adoption expands, organizations increasingly depend on actionable metadata to improve service assurance, observability, and cybersecurity. AIOps, SecOps, NetOps, and DevOps teams rely on high-quality, real-time data to train AI models that reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) and enable intelligent automation.
NETSCOUT helps enterprises eliminate visibility blind spots and innovate with confidence. As a leading provider of service assurance, cybersecurity, DDoS, and business analytics for Global 2000 enterprises and Tier 1 carriers, NETSCOUT delivers deep insights through its patented Smart Data technology, transforming raw packet data into rich, contextual metadata in real time.
Smart Data is critical for training AI/ML models to identify anomalies, ensure performance, and detect security threats across complex environments. AI systems are only as effective as the data they ingest, and NETSCOUT’s approach ensures the fidelity, granularity, and relevance required for high-value outcomes.
To achieve this, NETSCOUT requires efficient access to packet or traffic data, regardless of whether workloads are running in physical, virtual, or cloud environments. That’s why Microsoft Azure’s recent RSA announcement about the availability of its Azure virtual network terminal access point (TAP) is so significant.
Virtual network TAP enables continuous streaming of virtual machine (VM) network traffic directly to NETSCOUT’s vSTREAM virtual probes. This dramatically improves visibility within Azure environments, allowing for seamless packet data capture and real-time analysis.
The mirrored traffic from Azure subnets is transformed by NETSCOUT’s vSTREAM into Smart Data, delivering deep insights into application performance and security. Virtual network TAP, tested and fully interoperable with NETSCOUT technology, supports an agentless, scalable solution to monitor application dependencies and interactions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It helps organizations gain full-stack visibility before, during, and after workload migrations to Azure, without deploying agents or compromising performance.
NETSCOUT’s virtual probes are both cost-effective and efficient, offering comprehensive on-prem and off-prem packet capture capabilities. When combined with Virtual network TAP, enterprises gain a powerful solution to accelerate digital transformation while maintaining robust service assurance and cybersecurity.
Together, NETSCOUT and Azure deliver an innovative approach to hybrid cloud monitoring. Enterprises can now train their AI platforms with precision data, automate insights, and proactively manage risk, all without disrupting operations.
For more on Azure virtual network terminal access point (TAP) and vSTREAM, explore the NETSCOUT/Azure partnership or visit the Azure Commercial Marketplace.
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