Resort World at Sentosa Gains Maximum Visibility While Lowering

Case Study

Gigamon gave us ease of administration,

tremendous cost savings, storage savings

and many other enhanced capabilities.

DESMOND LOY

IT Director for Resort World at Sentosa

Challenge

Troubleshoot network data issues more effectively

and efciently

Solution

Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline

Customer Benets

• Reduced trafc to the network tool set 50 to

79 percent

• Lowered costs and saved $200,000 to $500,000

• Maximized network visibility and performance

monitoring

• Accelerated threat prevention, detection and

response time

Resort World at Sentosa

Gains Maximum Visibility

While Lowering Costs

with Gigamon

Big Wins

Resort World at Sentosa, a world-class lifestyle

destination resort in Singapore, encompasses more

than 120 square miles of attractions and facilities,

including Universal Studios Singapore, a casino,

an aquarium, luxury hotels and a convention

center. Managing network data for such a complex

organization with so many facilities presents an

ongoing — and costly — challenge for the company’s

IT professionals.

After turning to Gigamon for a solution to better

troubleshoot network data problems, Resort World

at Sentosa maximized network visibility, drastically

reduced trafc to its network tool set and increased the

efciency of their tools and IT team, ultimately saving

the company between $200,000 and $500,000.

According to Desmond Loy, IT Director for Resort World

at Sentosa, the biggest benets of using Gigamon

solutions include “actual network trafc visibility,

reduction of manual troubleshooting steps and ability

to identify issue root cause swiftly.”

Maximum Visibility

Ever-increasing network speeds, new technologies and

an exponential increase in data volume make it difcult

for IT teams at multifaceted companies like Resort

World at Sentosa to swiftly and accurately analyze

trafc intelligence, and that hampers visibility.

To more effectively troubleshoot issues and accelerate

threat prevention, detection and response time, Resort

World at Sentosa sought a single source of visibility

across physical, virtual and cloud environments, as well

as protection from blind spots within encrypted trafc.

And that’s where Gigamon came in.

The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline offered the

company scalable visibility into all data, automation as

well as a common architecture to eliminate blind spots

and streamline management.

Reducing Costs, Increasing Efciency

Faced with escalating vendor and tool costs, as well as

an IT team strained with too many time-consuming

manual tasks, Resort World at Sentosa needed a

more efcient means to lter out duplicate and

low-risk trafc.

The Gigamon platform provides optimized, full-delity

data to security and performance monitoring tools,

which helps reduce manual troubleshooting steps

required to analyze trafc. It also decreased the cost and

sprawl of tools while optimizing their effectiveness —

automation that saves both time and money.

Network administrators can now selectively

manage which type of trafc to inspect and remove

unnecessary content, complete de-duplication and

mask sensitive information before sending it to

monitoring tools. As a result, the company benetted

from storage savings and reduced trafc to their

network tool set by a massive 50 to 79 percent.

“We could reduce CapEx for network security tools as

we could centralize them and maximize the utilization,”

said Desmond. “In the long run, OpEx can be more

manageable with optimized network inventory.”

Successful Solutions

When asked for their assessment, Resort World at

Sentosa ranked Gigamon consistently better than the

competition for:

• Filtering, slicing and de-duplication

• TLS decryption

• Inline bypass (rated best in class)

And that is good for business.

Initially drawn to Gigamon for our robust architecture

and high-delity data, Resort World at Sentosa

ultimately found its needs for complete visibility met,

in addition to benetting from the solution’s “ease

of administration,” “tremendous cost savings” and

“storage savings.”

CASE STUDY | RESORT WORLD AT SENTOSA

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harnesses actionable network-derived intelligence

to amplify the power of observability tools. This

powerful combination helps IT organizations to assure

security and compliance governance, speed root-

cause analysis of performance bottlenecks, and lower

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DESMOND LOY

IT Director for Resort World at Sentosa