NCC Media is an advertising sales, marketing, and technology company that harnesses the enormous reach and consumer power of cable television programming, new interactive technologies, and online products in every US market. NCC is headquartered in the Chrysler Building in New York City with over 600 employees across 17 offices nationwide.
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NCC media regularly migrates critical core infrastructure to VMware vSphere v6 and it is very important that the user experience stays consistent. “We have had several situations where we experienced an outage,” says Henderson Alleyne, Director of Network Operations at NCC Media. “We later found out that there were a few ongoing issues in the environment that eventually brought our systems down. The troubleshooting took too long because we had to call VMware Support Center in many cases. We were thinking of having a tool that would give us insight to potential issues that could take systems offline.
The IT team installed Runecast Analyzer in less than an hour in their lab environment for PoC validation. It quickly turned out to be the proactive solution to address their issues with random outages.
By running Runecast Analyzer in the production environment, it detected more than 50 issues impacting their VMware system downtime or performance. Additionally, the Analyzer identified problems with Port Groups not having NIC redundancy, mixed versions of ESXi hosts, and BPDU filtering disabled. Under the previous setup, these issues were hard to find because it would require dozens of hours spent auditing each detailed configurations.
The team now uses Runecast Analyzer on daily basis to scan their infrastructure before and after any changes to identify any potential issues that could arise after updates and upgrades.
The software from Runecast has positively impacted NCC Media in several areas.
“We found out that there were a few ongoing issues in the environment that eventually brought our systems down. The troubleshooting took too long because we had to call VMware Support Center in many cases. We were thinking of having a tool that would give us insight to potential issues that could take systems offline.”
Henderson Alleyne
Director of Network Operations
NCC Media
Run it... you will be amazed by the findings. We always think that a lot of applications are secure by nature and by how they’ve been designed, but after deploying Runecast you really understand the gaps that you might have in your environment and it’s definitely an eye-opener.
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