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Computer networking company
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Gigamon is a privately held computer security company with products that delivers network-derived intelligence and insights to cloud, security, observability, and network management tools.[3][4] It is one of the main parts in the deep observability market.[5] Formerly traded publicly,[6] it is now owned by Elliott Management and headquartered in Santa Clara, California.[7]
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Hybrid cloud Infrastructure, Hybrid cloud security, Deep observability |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Number of employees | 1,000 (As of April 2025[update])[2] |
| Website | gigamon |
History
Gigamon LLC was founded in 2004 and was originally operated by Gigamon Systems, LLC.[8][9][10] In 2009, Gigamon converted from a limited liability company to a corporation and changed its name to Gigamon Inc.[10] It is currently led by President and CEO, Shane Buckley.[11]
In July 2012 the company filed for an IPO, and then went public on June 11, 2013, on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “GIMO”.[12][13] During the initial public offering on June 12, 2013, investors bought 6.75 million shares priced at $19 each, generating $128 million in sales.[3][14][15][16]
In 2015, Gigamon introduced its formalized Partner Program.[9] At the time, the company already had 220 partners in North America and more in other countries.[9] That same year, Gigamon moved its headquarters to Santa Clara.[17]
Gigamon officials rang the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange on February 24, 2016.[18][19] That year, Gigamon had almost $311 million in revenue, up from $68 million in 2011.[20]
In 2017, Elliott Management Corp through its private equity arm Evergreen Coast Capital, agreed to acquire Gigamon.[4][21][22]
That same year the company entered the network detection and response (NDR) market when it acquired the startup ICEBRG.[23]
In the early 2020s, Gigamon moved from a traditional data center network visibility to a hybrid and multi-cloud environment. The company introduced “deep observability,” combining network-level telemetry, metadata extraction, and encrypted traffic inspection using Linux eBPF. A technology that provides visibility into cloud-based traffic while reducing data volumes sent to monitoring and security tools.[24]
In December 2021, Gigamon partnered with Cirrus Networks to offer managed security services to governments and large enterprises in Australia.[25] The initial three-year partnership focused on the following industries: government, mining, financial services, and education.[25]
In February 2022, the company announced a series of enhancements to ThreatINSIGHT that included providing 365-date rich network metadata retention to provide SOC teams with historical data and tools to use that data to identify adversary activity.[26] In December 2022, Gigamon sold ThreatINSIGHT to Fortinet.[27]
In 2023, Elliott Investment Management explored a potential sale of Gigamon, valuing the company at more than $2 billion.[22]
In 2024, Gigamon secured an investment from Siris Capital Group, which will support its efforts to enhance deep observability solutions. This investment is expected to accelerate Gigamon's growth and innovation, solidifying its position in the cloud security market.[28]
Products
In 2020 Application Filtering Intelligence was introduced, which identifies application traffic from a database of more than 3,000 applications and directs selected traffic to monitoring, security, or data loss prevention tools.[29]
In October 2021, Gigamon announced a joint solution with Armis, a device security platform provider.[30] The integration combined Gigamon's visibility and analytics fabric with the Armis Agentless Device Security Platform to monitor network traffic across hybrid environments.[30] The same year, Gigamon released a cloud-based platform called Hawk, designed to monitor data in motion within cloud environments.[31] Hawk was later relabeled the Deep Observability Pipeline.[32]
In October 2022, Gigamon announced an integration with LogRhythm's SIEM platform.[32] The following month, the company announced a partnership with Infovista related to network monitoring and analytics.[33]
Gigamon introduced a feature called Precryption in September 2023, which captures network traffic before encryption or after decryption using eBPF technology.[34][35]
In June 2025, Gigamon introduced AI traffic analysis, including ChatGPT and Gemini, into the Deep Observability Pipeline.[36][37]
Gigamon has also reported partnerships and integrations with companies including Vectra AI and Cribl.io.[38][39][40]
Lawsuits
On Friday, April 23, 2021, a federal jury of the US District Court and Eastern District of Texas delivered its verdict regarding Gigamon’s claims of APCON Inc.’s infringement on certain specified network technology patents. Gigamon’s infringement assertions were denied when the jury unanimously ruled that not only were allegations of APCON’s infringement invalid, but all claims related to five network data management patents at issue were invalid as well.[41]