Data streaming is a method for collecting real-time information from applications and infrastructure for analysis, crucial for monitoring network availability and performance. It involves the periodic transfer of information from monitored entities to a collector, which then feeds data into analytics engines for insights and automated event responses. This approach helps optimize network efficiency, expand capacity, and detect failures effectively.

1. Network Infrastructure
Visibility and Analytics with
Data Streaming
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2. What is Data Streaming?
• Data streaming is the mechanism by which you can collect
comprehensive real-time data from your applications and
infrastructure, for analysis by various tools and analytics software.
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3. Why the Data Must be Real-time
• You need real-time data to show you what’s happening in your
infrastructure across compute, storage and network domains.
– Monitoring helps you check network availability, performance, and latency
to ensure you can deliver the network Service Level Agreement (SLA).
– You can also perform analysis on the collected data to either optimize
network efficiency or to expand the network to meet growth aspirations.
– Finally, the data can be analyzed to detect various types of events and failures
happening in your network and perform automatic actions for remediation.
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4. Data Streaming in Operation
• Data streaming involves continuous periodic transfer of information from the monitored entity (e.g., a network switch or router).
• Information is usually transmitted from the monitored entity via a “push” model, wherein the monitored entity periodically sends
data to a receiving entity called a collector.
• The collector can feed the data into an analytics engine, such as Splunk or Apache Spark, which can then provide visualization or
business insights.
• The analytics engine can also detect events and drive an event-based automation engine, such as Brocade Workflow Composer, a
DevOps-inspired platform powered by StackStorm, for automated actions on the infrastructure.
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Data Streaming Ecosystem

5. Go To Our Blog On This Topic
• Learn more – http://community.brocade.com/t5/Data-Center/Network-
Infrastructure-Visibility-and-Analytics-with-Data/ba-p/92270
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