Gigamon Honored to Be Recognized in Six Gartner Hype Cycle Reports

In 2024, Gigamon was recognized as a Sample Vendor in six Hype Cycle™ reports from Gartner® which included eBPF technology: Gartner, Hype Cycle for Workload and Network Security, 2024 (Read now) Gartner, Hype Cycle for Monitoring and Observability, 2024 (Requires Gartner subscription) Gartner, Hype Cycle for Container Technology, 2024 (Requires Gartner subscription) Gartner, Hype Cycle for Compute, 2024 (Requires Gartner subscription) Gartner, Hype Cycle for Zero-Trust Networking, 2024 (Requires Gartner subscription) Gartner, Hype Cycle for APIs, 2024 (Requires Gartner subscription) In the fast-evolving world of IT, staying ahead of emerging technologies and managing their underlying risks is crucial. I have found the Gartner Hype Cycle to be an invaluable tool for businesses to help them gauge when to invest in new technologies and when to exercise caution, depending upon their risk appetite. More specifically, Gartner Hype Cycles provide a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities. As discussed in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Workload and Network Security, 2024, eBPF (previously known as extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is expected to reach mainstream adoption in two to five years. From my perspective, it is moving beyond early adopters to broader industry interest as more organizations begin to leverage the benefits. As Gartner explains, eBPF is an enhancement to the Linux operating system kernel that allows specific instruction sets to run (sandboxed) inside the kernel. It enables companies to add features to Linux without changing kernel source code or requiring kernel modules.1 It’s a modern approach to capture telemetry for security and performance monitoring and observability purposes. Figure 1. Hype Cycle for Workload and Network Security, 2024 eBPF supports various use cases, including high-performance networking