Engineering and Customer-led Sessions Educate Attendees on Performance
Troubleshooting, Proactive Performance Management, and Integrating NetFlow
Technologies with the nGenius Solution
WESTFORD, Mass., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NetScout Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: NTCT), a leading provider of network and application performance
management solutions, today announced the highest attendance ever at the
NetScout User Forum conference, which took place last week in Cambridge, Mass.
NetScout's network engineering, operations and IT management users from
enterprise and service provider businesses, civilian government and defense
agencies converged at the 2005 conference for education by their peers and
NetScout's top engineering talent. During the conference, user forum members
from around the world shared best practices and met with NetScout executives
and engineers to discuss the most pressing trends impacting the performance of
their business-critical applications and networks.
One of the dominant exchanges of the conference centered on challenges
facing IT organizations in early recognition of application and network
performance problems and the need to shorten mean-time-to-repair while working
across organizational boundaries. In fact, an on-site survey revealed that
the vast majority of attending companies still rely on end-user calls as the
first sign of application performance problems. Other hot topics of
discussion included ITIL processes and quality programs, and Web services.
Additional Conference Highlights
Anil Singhal, president and CEO of NetScout presented the evolution of the
company's High Definition Performance Management (HDPM) strategy in relation
to the company's expanding product lines and future industry trends.
Educational sessions led by NetScout engineering and experienced customers
included techniques to take advantage of the nGenius Performance Management
Solution's integration with HP Openview, expand network monitoring
capabilities with NetScout's NetFlow collection, and exploit the nGenius Flow
Recorder's extended trace recording and expert analysis capabilities.
NetScout's training and customer support organizations led hands-on lab
training sessions and best-practices workshops.
Keynote addresses by Daniel Burrus, notable technology futurist, and Dr.
Jim Metzler, industry analyst and Network World columnist. Burrus delivered
entertaining and practical tips for attendees to improve visibility into the
near-future and embrace useful technologies for automation. Dr. Metzler spoke
on the growing and future impact of Web services on enterprise networks.
"The NetScout User Forum conference has become a vitally important source
of collaboration between our user base and product development and marketing
teams, to best focus our offerings on helping organizations improve the
performance of the business-critical applications that depend upon their
networks," said Michael Szabados, senior vice president of product operations,
NetScout Systems. "Our user forum has become the single-largest annual event
NetScout organizes, which is a sign of the vigor and usefulness of the
dialogue customers have with us and with other customers."
About the NetScout User Forum
The NetScout User Forum is a company-sponsored and -led group that focuses
on the best use of NetScout's performance management products worldwide. It
assists NetScout users with maximizing the benefits of their nGenius Solutions
to manage the performance and costs of their mission-critical applications and
networks. The Forum is free for all current users of NetScout products, and
offers discussion groups, educational seminars and technical briefs, as well
as Web-based exchange of information and events. In the last year, NetScout
User Forum membership has grown to nearly 1,000 members, representing more
than 600 organizations worldwide.
About NetScout Systems
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT) is a market leader and pioneer of
integrated network and application performance management products and
solutions that unify performance across the enterprise. NetScout's nGenius(R)
Performance Management System is helping more than 3,000 leading companies
increase their return on infrastructure investments by optimizing the
performance of networks and applications according to business priorities.
NetScout is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts and has offices
worldwide. Further information is available at http://www.netscout.com.
NetScout and the NetScout logo, nGenius, and Quantiva are registered
trademarks of NetScout Systems, Inc. The CDM logo, MasterCare, the MasterCare
logo, and Progressive Analytics 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.
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