Case Studies
Marvell Semiconductor
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Overview
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Marvell Technology Group, Ltd., specializes in the design and marketing of high performance, mixed-signal and digital integrated circuits (ICs) aimed at the high speed computer, storage, communications and multimedia markets.
The Challenge
Marvell has a very lean IT team who takes care of the network that services its corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The company also has affiliate offices in Singapore, Japan and Israel, so the IT team also supports Marvell's global network. Additionally, Marvell is expanding to a new campus to accommodate growth. Along with adding the new buildings to its network and setting-up the employees, the IT team has to keep the existing network up and running.
The Solution
One of the key reasons Marvell decided to purchase Netcordia's NetMRI was its easy-to-use and easy-to-understand system-level analysis that will help Marvell manage the expansion. It will be used to get a pre-expansion baseline of Marvell's healthy network, and will then help the IT team quickly identify and fix any issues.
"NetMRI will help us know immediately if there are any routing or switching configuration issues. It enables us to see if there is a problem, look at the problem and address it," said Walter Curd, Director of Information Technology at Marvell. Beyond the expansion, the Marvell IT team also needed a product that could help diagnose the network for them, and let them know about problems before the problems became an issue.
"NetMRI goes beyond basic monitoring," continued Mr. Curd. "It's like having an expert network engineer look at our network and make recommendations on what problems there are and how to fix them — objectively and automatically."
Summary
With just a minimal amount of time, the NetMRI network health diagnostic solution lets the IT team know if there are issues that will affect the overall operation. When NetMRI was initially installed at Marvell, it immediately identified several issues that, when addressed, improved system performance.