Press Releases Archives

Gigamon Appoints Paul Shinn as General Counsel

May 14, 2012 - Former Hewlett-Packard Vice President and Associate General Counsel Brings Extensive Legal Experience to Gigamon

Silicon Valley, Calif., May 14, 2012 – Gigamon^®, a world leader in Traffic Visibility solutions, today announced that Paul Shinn has joined the company as General Counsel. As part of Gigamon's executive team, Shinn will report to Chief Executive Officer, Ted Ho. Shinn will be responsible for the Company's global legal strategy and overall legal matters, including contract negotiations, strategic acquisitions, compliance, securities, and intellectual property matters. He joins Gigamon from Hewlett-Packard Company.

Gigamon Receives Top Information Technology Industry Award

May 11, 2012 - Network Products Guide Names GigaVUE-HD4 Best Product in Network Intelligence

LAS VEGAS – May 11, 2012 – Gigamon®, a world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, announced today that Network Products Guide, industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named the GigaVUE-HD4 a winner of the 7^th Annual 2012 Hot Companies and Best Products Award in the Network Intelligence category. The Network Products Guide industry and peer awards are the world's premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners were honored at Interop Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

Gigamon Unveils New GigaVUE-VM Traffic Visibility Fabric Node

May 3, 2012 - New technology enables virtual environments to be managed, analyzed and secured by the same tools as physical data centers 

Interop Las Vegas, – May 3, 2012 – Gigamon®, a world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, today announced that it will be demonstrating at Interop Las Vegas the GigaVUE-VM fabric node, the newest addition to the company’s award-winning GigaVUE® product family. The new GigaVUE-VM fabric node extends intelligent traffic visibility, selection and filtering into virtualized environments and in doing so evolves the Gigamon Traffic Visibility Fabric™ to enable virtual environments to be monitored by the same tools as physical data centers.

Gigamon Partners With ForeScout To Extend Real-time Visibility

April 24, 2012 - Silicon Valley, Calif., – April 24, 2012 – Gigamon®, a world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric™ solutions, today announced that it has partnered with ForeScout Technologies, a leading provider of automated security control solutions for Fortune 1000 enterprises and government organizations, to provide an integrated set of network management and visibility solutions that enable real-time network visibility and automated security controls, while minimizing core network switch infrastructure load for network operators and IT leaders.

Gigamon Named Finalist in the 2012 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards

April 12, 2012 - Silicon Valley, Calif., – April 12, 2012 – Gigamon®, a world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has selected three of the company's products as finalists for the 7th Annual 2012 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards.The Network Products Guide industry and peer awards are the world's premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. Winners will be honored in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

Gigamon Partners With Correlix To Provide Real-Time Latency Measurement To Exchanges

April 2, 2012 - Silicon Valley, Calif., – April 2, 2012 – Gigamon®, a world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, announced a real-time latency measurement and analytical solution enabled through its partnership with Correlix. By enabling compatibility of the Correlix RaceTeam™ platform with Gigamon’s flagship line of products, the H Series, which includes its highly accurate nanosecond time-stamping technology, architects and engineers of High Frequency Trading (HFT) and financial IT infrastructure are able to analyze, evaluate and tune the latency of transactions. At the heart of the solution is the Gigamon Visibility Fabric that enables analysts to pinpoint and eliminate causes of communication delay, resulting in a faster and more accurate trading cycles

Gigamon’s Best-in-Class Traffic Visibility Fabric Awarded

March 20, 2012 - Company Receives 2012 Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Traffic Visibility Solutions Market by Frost & Sullivan

Silicon Valley, Calif., – March 21, 2012 – Gigamon®, a world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, announced that the company has been presented with the 2012 Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in the traffic visibility solutions market by Frost & Sullivan. The award is an independent, third-party recognition of Gigamon’s accomplishments in delivering superior technology and products to the traffic visibility solutions market.

Gigamon Partners With Riverbed To Provide Accurate Time Stamping

March 9, 2012 - Partnership Represents Latest Success in Gigamon’s Strategic Technology Alliance Community (STAC) Program

Silicon Valley, Calif., – March 9, 2012 – Gigamon®, the world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, announced a new time stamping solution developed through its partnership with Riverbed Technology. The new solution enables accurate time stamping detail to be used in traffic analysis for fast troubleshooting of network and application problems in enterprise and financial industry IT environments. The partnership provides mutual customers with high precision time stamps for packet capture and analysis when using the Riverbed® Cascade® application-aware network performance management (NPM) solution and Gigamon’s GigaVUE-2404 with GigaSMART®.

Industry Veteran Duston Williams Joins Gigamon as Chief Financial Officer

March 5, 2012 - Silicon Valley, CALIF., March 5, 2012 – Gigamon^®, the world leader in Traffic Visibility solutions, announced today that technology enterprise veteran Duston Williams has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer.

Williams is responsible for all aspects of the organization’s financial operations and will help drive the next stage of the company’s development. He joins Gigamon from SandForce, Inc.

Gigamon Delivers High-Accuracy Traffic “Time-Stamping” for Banking, Trading and Enterprises

February 15, 2012 - Silicon Valley, Calif., – February 15, 2012 – Gigamon®, the world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, announced that it now offers two levels of accuracy for its time stamping solutions. The latest addition to the portfolio provides hardware-based time stamping directly at the ingress ports delivering nanosecond accuracy. Accurate time-stamping of traffic traversing production networks enables architects, engineers and operators of High Frequency Trading (HFT), financial and service provider infrastructures to analyze, evaluate, manage and tune the latency of transactions.  Such visibility enables analysts to pinpoint and eliminate causes of communication delay, resulting in faster and more accurate transaction cycles.  

Visibility Fabric Solution Extended through the Addition of High Density, High Resiliency Technology

February 8, 2012 - The H Series family expanded by the addition of a small form factor, high-density chassis and latest software release delivering clustering capability to create high resiliency Visibility Fabric architecture

Gigamon®, the world leader in Traffic Visibility Fabric solutions, announced that it has expanded the breadth and scale of its H Series portfolio by adding a new high density, small form factor chassis with a high-resiliency multi-chassis “clustering” capability. Gigamon’s flagship line of products, the H Series, represents the latest generation of purpose built technology to handle millions of traffic flows each second, delivering them intelligently to the appropriate infrastructure security or managing systems. The launch of a new H Series chassis, the GigaVUE-HD4, and new software update for the entire H Series, continues to enable network architects and engineers to respond to the need to provide pervasive visibility to network traffic.

Traffic Visibility for Network Upgrade Cycle in Enterprises and Data Centers

January 26, 2012 - New Technology Enables IT Managers to Intelligently Aggregate Data from 10Gb ports regardless of utilization rates; Portfolio Now Includes Forward Looking 40G Solution

Gigamon®, the world leader in Traffic Visibility solutions, announced that it has expanded its portfolio of solutions to further enable enterprise managers to more efficiently and completely gain visibility of all traffic traversing their networks. Following a network upgrade cycle, higher speed, low-utilization ports created a challenge as the volume of traffic could not justify the higher-speed physical connectivity into a Visibility Fabric. The launch of two new products which combine to create a powerful aggregation solution, address this challenge. At the same time, the products double the density for the H Series family and deliver 40Gb connectivity in preparation for the next upgrade cycle and higher-speed monitoring tools in the future.