Elastic{ON} Tour Toronto - Elastic at RBC 1 Year Later

Elastic{ON} Tour Toronto - September 26, 2017

Learn how RBC has grown their Elasticsearch use case over the past year.

Kevin Phillips | Director of Technology and Operations | RBC

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1. 1 Kevin Phillips Director, Technology & Operations RBC Elastic @ RBC 1yr later
2. 2 Context RBC IT § 30,000 compute nodes § 25,000 network nodes § 3,000+ databases § 3,500+ applications RBC Financial Group § > 400 technologies and vendors § Dedicated services, shared services § Physical, virtual § IAAS, PAAS, On-prem, Off-prem § In-house, off-shore, internal/external services § A top 50 bank in the world. § 5 lines of business. § Offices in Canada, the U.S. and 35 other countries. § 80,000+ employees. § More than16 million clients.
3. 3 Chronology Meager start to global coverage Logging • 3 VMs • Problem isolation and identification. 2014 Logging & Analytics • 5 physical srvrs • VMware (1,000+ nodes) • All system mgmt tools 2015 Logging & Analytics • 15 Physical • VMware (1,000+ nodes) • All system mgmt tools • All network security devices. • Network traffic analysis & reporting. 2016 Logging, Analytics, & Search • 50+ Physical & VMs • VMware & Cloud • All network security devices • Real time analysis of network traffic. • Search embedded in applications. • New solutions leveraging logging, analytics, & search 2017
4. 4 Logging: 2016 vs 2017 Success breeds success 2016 2017
5. 5 Raw data /day External traffic logging Logging records / sec Traffic volumes are not predictable Index latency Fast index means fast analytics: fast decisions 1Tb 100k 1ms
6. 6 Analytics Application, Security, and more Network Security Problem Isolation & Identification Performance, Capacity, Config mgmt, Cost recovery
7. 7 Search Find anything, including what you don’t know
8. 8 8 Demo
9. 9 Thank You!
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