Using as starting point for our project the minimum viable product (MVP) developed during the first phase of the SME Instrument project and original Talaia’s products, Talaia, now Auvik, has been following an iterative approach to implement a unique product for active visibility and security in both traditional and SDN-based networks. In addition, Talaia has created the distributed infrastructure necessary to handle its massive-scale commercialization.
Talaia, with negligible exceptions, has achieved all the objectives proposed in the project. First, Talaia has created a solid technological foundation by combining big data and stream processing technologies with machine learning algorithms. This technical foundation powers the solution to ingest massive amounts of network metadata from the cloud. The main advantages of this approach are (1) it enables zero-hardware network visibility, and (2) it extracts rich insights from network activity, thus achieving a product that solves the problems of deployment complexity and excessive upfront costs of incumbent solutions. Second, a cutting-edge platform has been implemented in order to allow the massive-scale commercialization with crucial features: high available, fault tolerance, scalable, cost efficient, data integrity. Last, a set of new features covering last needs from the market have been created. Special attention got the implementation of the attack mitigation feature, that allowed our solution to actuate in the network (e.g. DDoS mitigation) without the need of extra hardware deployments to perform the mitigation.
The results of the project could not be better, as as a result of the awaken interest, the company has been acquired by Auvik Networks. Therefore, the strategy implemented during this project for the exploitation and dissemination of the product is no longer needed, as the product will be fully integrated in Auvik's product and the strategy will consequently be adapted.
