Application delivery company Apcela, Wednesday announced the launch of its Enhanced Analytics Platform (EAP), the company’s first move into machine learning.
Built for complex enterprise IT environments, EAP assesses real-time event and metric-driven data between networks, applications and tools, bridging the gap between data silos due to limited analytics, while addressing enterprises’ need for dynamic, predictive, automated analysis across networks, said Apcela.
This launch debuts EAP’s critical enabler, Apcela’s Cisco SD-WAN/ELK EAP API. Operating on Apcela’s global ultra-high performance, low-latency backbone, this API leverages and extends the power of the Cisco SD-WAN solution with Elastic’s ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK).
As the first SD-WAN solution supported by Apcela’s Enhanced Analytics, the Cisco SD-WAN/ELK API adds SD-WAN data to the platform, enabling significant reductions in time to diagnose and resolve network performance issues arising from fluid application requirements.
While the Cisco SD-WAN deployments offer some log retention in the vManage portal, data visualization and analytical capabilities are limited due to static data sets. Apcela’s Enhanced Analytics Platform addresses these issues by integrating SD-WAN data with other network operational data and systems logs for correlation and analyses.
ELK enables immediate support for third-party components including, but not limited to, Amazon AWS, Cloudflare, Oracle, Palo Alto, vmWare, and zScaler. Because Apcela delivers core networking capabilities, it delivers performance improvements significantly faster than similar solutions disaggregated from network delivery.
Mark Casey, CEO of Apcela
Apcela is addressing these challenges head on with an analytics platform that integrates real-time data across the infrastructure and application layers. Our Enhanced Analytics Platform is working to accelerate remediation of network performance issues before they can lead to application performance issues.
Jack Dziak, President and COO, Apcela
Our Enhanced Analytics Platform provides the enterprise with the means to deliver improved applications performance in a highly-agile manner, providing deeper integration between networks, applications and other systems elements traveling across networks.
