David Mann, Senior Director of Global Network Services at McGraw-Hill discusses the evolution of McGraw-Hill into a digitally transformed business and how a revised IT operations and visibility stack is critical to eliminate digital risks to deliver superior learning experience to their customers.
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How McGraw-Hill Transformed ITOps to Mitigate Digital Risks
1. How McGraw-Hill Transformed ITOps to
Mitigate Digital Risks
David Mann, Sr. Director of Global Network Services, McGraw-Hill
Archana Kesavan, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, ThousandEyes
2. @ThousandEyesMcGraw-Hill |
Agenda
• Welcome & Introduction
• McGraw-Hill’s Digital Transformation
• Adapting to Digital Transformation
Archana Kesavan
Sr.Product
Marketing Manager
ThousandEyes
@archana_k7
David Mann
Sr.Director, Global
Network Services
McGraw-Hill
• Modern Ops IT Stack
• Optimizing with ThousandEyes
• Q&A
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About ThousandEyes
Network Intelligence solution
that helps you understand
performance from every user
to every application over any
network
Routing
User App
End-to-End Performance Data
User
Experience
App
Performance
Routing
Topology
Network
Topology
Enterprise, Endpoint and Cloud Agents
Network
Connectivity
Device
Performance
Digital Experience Modern WAN Cloud Adoption
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Improving outcomes and delivering ed tech
at scale across higher education and K-12
We partner with…
14,000+authors and
educators in various fields and study.
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Digital Transformation Challenges
Increased external dependencies
• How do users access online applications
• Increasing third-party vendors
—Content Delivery Networks
—Cloud applications
Risks of doing business online
• Prone to security threats such as DDoS
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How Does IT Cope With these Challenges?
Invest in a
technology stack best
suited for digital transformation
Address the visibility
“blindspot”
Adopt a
”customer-first”
model across the
entire organization
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Before Digital Transformation: The IT Monitoring Stack
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Monitoring Category IT Management Domain
Presentation Layer All
IT Service Management All
APM Internally Developed Apps & Services
IT Infrastructure Mgmt (SNMP)
Internal Data Center
&
WAN infrastructure
Network Perf Mgmt & Diagnostics (Flow/PCAP)
Network Capacity Mgmt (Flow)
Log Mgmt All
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Digital Transformation Creates a Visibility Blindspot
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Monitoring Category IT Management Domain
Presentation Layer All
IT Service Management All
APM Internally Developed Apps & Services
IT Infrastructure Mgmt (SNMP)
Internal Data Center
&
WAN infrastructure
Network Perf Mgmt & Diagnostics (Flow/PCAP)
Network Capacity Mgmt (Flow)
Log Mgmt All
Internal Data Center & WAN infrastructure
Cloud-Specific Mgmt (CloudWatch)
Cloud Infrastructure
Missing Visibility
Digital Experience
ISP, DNS, CDN, DDoS. CASB providers
SaaS providers
SD-WAN Internet transport
Internet Routing
IT Infrastructure Mgmt (SNMP)
Network Perf Mgmt & Diagnostics (Flow/PCAP)
Network Capacity Mgmt (Flow)
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After Digital Transformation: The IT Monitoring Stack
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Monitoring Category IT Management Domain
Presentation Layer All
IT Service Management All
APM Internally Developed Apps & Services
Log Mgmt All
Internal Data Center & WAN infrastructure
Cloud-Specific Mgmt (CloudWatch)
Cloud Infrastructure
IT Infrastructure Mgmt (SNMP)
Network Perf Mgmt & Diagnostics (Flow/PCAP)
Network Capacity Mgmt (Flow)
Digital Experience
ISP, DNS, CDN, DDoS. CASB providers
SaaS providers
SD-WAN Internet transport
Internet Routing
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Optimizing Networks & Operations with
ThousandEyes
Custom Service Dashboards
Incident Response
Operational EnhancementEnhancing
Customer Service
Interactions
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Enhancing Customer Service Interactions
McGraw Hill customer losing access to
their site periodically during the day
Uninterrupted availability after fault
diagnosis
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Incident Response Operational Enhancement
Availability to services dropped at an alarming rate
Blast radius of
the outage
c
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DDoS Attack Path Visualization
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Signature of a DDoS attack
manifests through elevated
packet loss on the network