Case Study

Cegedim.cloud
Improves Its Cloud
Infrastructure Visibility
with Gigamon

Challenge• Access to virtual infrastructure traffic to capture andanalyse it as needed

Gigamon’s visibility solution gives uscomplete visibility into our virtual healthdata hosting infrastructure. And thanks
to the deduplication function, we are• Agregate and deduplicate virtual infrastructure trafficwith the physical network traffic to feed monitoringprobes• Extended visibility to all their data centres andoptimise the monitoring tools performanceable to relieve and optimize the operation

Solutionof our monitoring probe.

• GigaVUE® Cloud Suite for VMware• GigaVUE HC Series

FRÉDÉRIC LE GUILLOU
CTIO, Cegedim• GigaVUE-FM fabric manager• GigaSMART®
Customer Benefits• Gain deep observability into the virtual infrastructure• Ability to capture traffic instantly and route it wherever
it is needed for analysis• Ability to make its own choices in terms ofinfrastructure, providing network teams with visibility
into where they want to deploy their IT infrastructure© 2023 Gigamon. All rights reserved.

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CASE STUDY | CEGEDIMCegedim (EURONEXT: CGM) is a services company
in the field of digital data flow management for
healthcare ecosystems and B2B, and a businesssoftware publisher for healthcare and insurance.
Founded in 1969, Cegedim offers a full range ofinnovative solutions and services for healthcare
professionals, healthcare companies (pharmaceuticallaboratories, insurance companies), and companies inall sectors interested in outsourcing, secure hosting,and digitalized data exchange.

the intelligent matrix. Prior to the collaboration with
Gigamon, cegedim.cloud’s monitoring probe was at
capacity limits and was absorbing ~37Gbps of traffic
from the physical infrastructure (out of a total capacityof 40GB). By activating the deduplication feature, thetraffic volume was halved, with no loss of visibility. This
enabled cegedim.cloud to optimise the operation of its
probe and keep it more durable.

Under the brand name cegedim.cloud, Cegedim offersa unique range of cloud services for hosting criticalapplications and sensitive data, including facilities
management, managed or platform as a service (PaaS)
platforms, virtual on-demand or IaaS servers, andcolocation.

Benefits

ChallengesAs a certified health data hosting provider,cegedim.cloud needs full visibility into its complex
and compartmentalised infrastructure in order toprevent incidents and offer the best possible service
to its customers.
While the group has already deployed the tools needed
to monitor its physical network infrastructure (switches,routers, etc.), they need to be able to capture and route
traffic from their virtual infrastructure to their physicalmetrology probe. Cegedim.cloud was therefore looking
for a solution that could provide them with access tothe traffic on their virtual infrastructure in order tocapture and analyse it as needed.
Cegedim.cloud also wanted to incorporate this into
a global project and extend visibility to all their datacentres (Paris and Toulouse) while looking for a way to
optimise the performance of their monitoring probe.

Solution
By choosing the Gigamon Deep Observability pipeline,cegedim.cloud’s teams were able to gain visibilityof the virtual infrastructure traffic they needed while
optimising the operation of their monitoring probe
thanks to the deduplication function enabled by© 2023 Gigamon. All rights reserved.

The installation and deployment of the GigaVUEHC2, GigaSMART De-duplication, GigaSMART tunnel
decapsulation/encapsulation, and GigaVUE-FM wascarried out quickly and independently by the cegedim.
cloud teams.
With a large virtual infrastructure like cegedim.cloud(roughly 2,000 virtual machines and 100 hypervisors)
the teams needed a solution mature enough tomeet their visibility needs. As soon as it was installed,cegedim.cloud was able to capture traffic instantly androute it to its monitoring probe.
With the Gigamon solution, cegedim.cloud can now
make its own infrastructure choices, providing network
teams with visibility into where they want to deploy
their IT infrastructure, plus the ability to capture traffic
and route it wherever it is needed for analysis. Now
that Gigamon has provided this standard data collectlayer for its virtual and physical infrastructures,
cegedim.cloud is looking into new metrology probes
as well as other options.

About cegedim.cloud
Cegedim’s cegedim.cloud brand offers a unique arrayof cloud services for hosting critical applications andsensitive data: comprehensive outsourcing, managedplatforms, platform as a service (PaaS), on-demandvirtual servers, infrastructure as a service (IaaS),and colocation (private space in one of Cegedim’sdatacenters). cegedim.cloud is the IT hub of CegedimGroup, France’s fifth-largest software publisher

2CASE STUDY | CEGEDIM(Truffle100 2020 ranking) and leading healthcare software publisher (Truffle100 and Syntec Numériquerankings). It has nine datacenters, including four in France. The rest are located in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Thecompany has more than 300 private clouds and 150 employees, all of which it uses to maintain the availability of its
clients’ critical applications and the confidentiality of its 400,000 daily users’ sensitive data. To learn more, please visit
cegedim.cloud. And follow us on Linkedin.

About Cegedim
Founded in 1969, Cegedim is an innovative technology and services company in the field of digital data flow
management for healthcare ecosystems and B2B, and a business software publisher for healthcare and insurance
professionals. Cegedim employs almost 5,000 people in more than 10 countries and generated revenue in excess of€500 million in 2019. Cegedim SA is listed in Paris (EURONEXT: CGM). To learn more, please visit cegedim.com.

About Gigamon
Gigamon offers a deep observability pipeline that harnesses actionable network-level intelligence to amplify thepower of observability tools. This powerful combination enables IT organisations to assure security and compliancegovernance, speed root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks, and lower operational overhead associated withmanaging hybrid and multi-cloud IT infrastructures. The result: modern enterprises realize the full transformationalpromise of the cloud. Gigamon serves more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of Fortune
100 enterprises, nine of the 10 largest mobile network providers, and hundreds of governments and educationalorganisations worldwide. To learn more, please visit gigamon.com.

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