Agreements Signed with Dimension Data to Provide nGenius Performance
Management Solutions to Enterprise and Government Customers in the
UK and Germany
WESTFORD, Mass., March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT), a leading provider of network
performance management solutions, today announced that it has signed new
agreements with Dimension Data UK and Dimension Data Germany AG & Co., to
provide its nGenius(R) products within the United Kingdom and Germany
respectively. Both companies are wholly owned subsidiaries of Dimension Data
Holdings (plc) (LSE: DDT), a leading global technology company.
The agreements will enhance opportunity for NetScout in the company's
largest European markets. Plans include joint sales and marketing activities
aimed at delivering the nGenius Performance Management System to enterprise
and government customers. Initial results of these efforts include a major
sale of the nGenius solution to a large, UK-based international financial
services customer that will use nGenius to improve proactive control over
network and applications performance. In addition, nGenius will improve the
efficiency and effectiveness of its IT team by centralizing and simplifying
the management of its large, complex, global network.
"We provide networking solutions for large, premier businesses and
NetScout's nGenius System will provide excellent new capabilities for helping
them to solve management challenges, while improving performance and cost,"
said Mark Griffiths, Marketing Director for Dimension Data UK. "It is a
strong match of leading edge solutions and a shared vision of delivering
optimised IT solutions that underpin this exciting relationship."
Dimension Data's 'Application Network' architectural framework focuses on
enabling the converging application and infrastructure environments.
Dimension Data's customers will thus benefit from NetScout's solution that
unifies performance management for the converging enterprise. NetScout's
flagship management application, nGenius(R) Performance Manager, leverages the
unified data made available through NetScout's patent-pending CDM(TM)
technology to deliver real-time monitoring, troubleshooting, protocol analysis
and historical reporting from a single, comprehensive solution.
"We are optimistic about our growing relationship with Dimension Data and
look forward to this next level of partnering to solve our joint customers'
most pressing network management challenges," said Jim Frey, vice president of
marketing for NetScout Systems. "Dimension Data's established knowledge and
presence in these markets provides additional advantage toward growing our
customer base in Europe."
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data Holdings plc (LSE: DDT) is a leading global technology
company. The Group provides solutions and services that optimize and manage
the performance of IT infrastructures to enable business to build competitive
advantage. To achieve this, the Group delivers solutions using its proprietary
'Application Network' architectural framework and its expertise in networking,
application integration and managed services. Dimension Data, founded in 1983,
had revenues of $2.1 billion in 2002 and operates in 30+ countries with over
9,000 employees. Further information on the company is available on
www.didata.com.
About NetScout Systems, Inc.
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT) is a market leader and pioneer of
integrated network performance management solutions for leading companies and
service providers worldwide. NetScout's offerings are based upon its
nGenius(R) Performance Management System, an integrated solution of advanced
monitoring and reporting applications that draw on the rich performance data
generated by NetScout's real-time, application-aware probes, advanced
intelligent software agents and other network devices. The nGenius System
helps organizations increase their return on infrastructure investments by
optimizing the performance of their network and applications. NetScout is
headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts and has offices in North America,
Europe and Asia. Further information on the company is available on the World
Wide Web at http://www.netscout.com.
NetScout and the NetScout logo, and nGenius are registered trademarks of
NetScout Systems, Inc. ART MIB, Because the Network is the Business, CDM and
the CDM logo, and MasterCare and the MasterCare logo, are trademarks of
NetScout Systems, Inc. Other brands, product names and trademarks are
property of their respective owners. NetScout reserves the right, at its sole
discretion, to make changes at any time in its technical information and
specifications, and service and support programs.
For Further Information:
Peggy Flynn Anne Harding
NetScout Systems The Message Machine
+1 (978) 614-4162 +44 (0) 189-563-1448
flynnp@netscout.com anneh@netcomuk.co.uk
SOURCE NetScout Systems, Inc.