188 Arista Networks Testimonials

"Arista's SDN innovations further enable solutions like ExtraHop to easily integrate within OpenFlow and OpenStack environments. As the only vendor in IT operational intelligence that can transform SDN wire data into correlated cross-tier visibility, ExtraHop is excited about this new release. SDN traffic can now be provisioned rapidly from Arista's control plane, forwarded to ExtraHop for real-time analysis and visibility across all tiers; application, network, or infrastructure and have that automatically correlated with the end-user experience."

"Overall, this has been a very successful project for us that has removed much of the complexity of our network while building a solid foundation that allows us to keep scaling the network to better serve the business.”

"We selected Arista for its known performance and robustness. Being a proven technology in combination with the fact that it runs Linux provides us the flexibility we need in a switch platform supporting a fast changing technology such as OpenStack.”

“I still remember the case where we were affected by the software bug related to the BGP process and spent almost 8 months before the vendor could shine a light on a root cause. Arista are different – they do things very fast and professionally and they are ready to go the extra mile for customer satisfaction.”

“We were building out 10 to 20 racks a week and hosting customers might have multiple elements such as dedicated servers, firewalls, switches and private clouds within their racks or rooms which needed to be physically connected in close proximity to overcome cabling issues and to improve performance. This meant we spent a lot of time physically moving servers around our data centres, resulting in delays in processing customer orders while proving time consuming for our technical teams.”

"Arista is one of the only companies that understands the role of the network in high performance data centers, Big Data, server virtualization and cloud computing. Simply stated, Arista is delivering leading performance and software functionality to drive its industry and customers forward."

"The Arista switches, with their leading port density, low power and robust software allowed us to meet the high standards that our customers demand from our social networking service."

“Improving the reliability of our network is always a key issue for us. In addition to ensuring redundancy of the networking equipment, we also have a robust framework in place for operation and maintenance.”

"At present, we are only utilizing the L2 functions. In the future, we are eager to better utilize the Arista switches’ characteristic functions such as automatic software installation and ‘MLAG’, which achieves link aggregation between different chassis.”

"Microsoft is committed to helping customers realize cloud computing benefits through our Cloud OS - a consistent platform spanning private clouds, service provider clouds and Windows Azure. The combination of Arista networking, including the Arista 7000 series switches and Microsoft’s Cloud OS, specifically System Center and Windows Server Hyper-V, delivers on the promise of Software Driven Cloud Networking for our mutual customers – in their datacenters or in hybrid clouds."

"The ability of IT and data center managers to effectively adopt and deploy 10Gb Ethernet has been hindered until recently by the lack of high-density, high-performance modular switches and high-performance 10GbE server adapters. Solarflare has addressed the need for high-performance 10 GbE adapters with the introduction last month of our SFN5122F adapter that can deliver 120 Gbps of bandwidth with the latest Intel and AMD based servers. When leveraged by the new Arista 7500 switch, customers will now be able to build reliable, power-efficient, high-performance 10 GbE fabrics that maximize data center performance when implementing solutions for cloud computing, virtualization, and other mission-critical applications."

"We are thrilled with Arista's new 7124SX switch and the ground-breaking Latency Analyzer (LANZ) feature. When combined with Solarflare's OpenOnload application acceleration middleware, the platform delivers record low application latency and jitter, which in turn results in a unique, compelling, and measurable business advantage. In addition, the improvements in form factor and power will significantly reduce OPEX costs and will definitely increase ROI."

“We use different vendors to build our networks and focus on ease of scaling the network, taking into account further business growth. When choosing a product, we evaluate the life cycle of this product for us, the minimum life cycle for a hardware platform is 4 years and above, for particular technology - 5 years and above.”

“As a research and development hub, OIST would be unable to accomplish anything without a fully operational network. The network backbone is mission critical infrastructure for OIST, a shutdown would impair every research facility on our campus. The two-layer ring topology constructed using network equipment from different manufacturers ensures a design that prevents a total functional shutdown in the event one ring fails. Another benefit that we emphasized in our evaluations was a low operational and management burden.”

“Like many other service providers, we are exploring cloud opportunities as this is where the market is heading. Our first step on this path was a major project to transform our existing infrastructure from traditional SDI cables and routers into a system based on TCP/IP networks using mostly commodity IT products.”