"The most valuable features are the single dashboard for viewing the entire network and that centralized-based configurations are much easier than the manual option."
"The solution allows me to look at the configuration change, change the configuration, and get statistics."
"The solution has helped us improve the Time to Resolution."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker is data routing and management. The solution integrates well."
"Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker is stable and scalable, and has a FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) feature. Cisco also provides helpful technical support for the solution."
"This solution allows us to see exactly what is going on in the network and we can very quickly solve issues with users."
"It can help to write your rules, organize firewalls, your block, and also your protocols and IP address to come in or out of your network."
"There are many valuable features, but understanding end-user response times stands out. It provides a score-based evaluation of user experience, helping customers quickly pinpoint whether issues originate from the network, server, client, or application. Additionally, it facilitates in-depth analysis of application dependencies."
"It's able to capture packets and, after a long time, you can come and use that information; to check, to analyze - everything you would want to do. So it's very good and helpful if you want to protect your data. It is stored in a certain place where you can access it every time you want to analyze it."
"I also have the ability to see an application's performance, to see what's going on, why a network is slow, why this program for this user is experiencing a delay or some network issue"
"The ability to capture packets. It is not only for monitoring. That is very important for a company that wants to keep an eye on the packets, the transactions, the flows..."
"The solution's GUI should be made more user-friendly."
"The solution needs to make it easier to work with on-prem tool."
"The solution could improve the performance."
"There's a lack of good product-specific documentation for this solution, so it can be harder to work through this platform."
"Another area for improvement is with the setup of the solution, as it's complicated. I'd like Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker to have an easier setup in its next release."
"Maybe the graphical user interface could be simplified to allow people to use it more easily. It's already good, but they can work more on it to make it even easier."
"I would like to have more than 4TB of storage available in the portable version of this solution."
"Graphics need improvement. Because a lot of the information there you have to input first in some case to have full potential. It could be more automated."
"GigaStor feeds into Apex. So, the area where there could be improvement would be in artificial intelligence. For example, the incorporation of more advanced machine learning or AI capabilities could enhance its functionality."
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Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker is ranked 2nd in Network Packet Broker (NPB) with 6 reviews while Observer GigaStor is ranked 8th in Network Packet Broker (NPB) with 7 reviews. Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker is rated 8.6, while Observer GigaStor is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker writes "Quick initial setup, helpful support, and useful data routing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Observer GigaStor writes "Aids significantly in the threat-hunting process and provides a score-based evaluation of user experience". Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Ixia Network Packet Brokers, Arista Data ANalyZer and Big Switch Networks, whereas Observer GigaStor is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Wireshark and Kentik.
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