WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- October 3, 2008 --
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT), an industry leader in
advanced network and application performance management, today
announced that it will host Engage '08, NetScout's annual user
conference, which includes sponsorship from HP and Riverbed
Technology. Engage '08 is taking place October 6-9, 2008 in San Diego,
California.
Sessions during the event will showcase the benefits of HP and
Riverbed(R) technologies working in coordination with the nGenius(R)
Performance Management solution. By taking part in the sessions,
attendees can learn how to immediately extend a NetScout deployment by
using nGenius in coordination with HP Network Node Manager and HP
Business Availability Center, both HP Business Service Management
offerings, or with Riverbed Steelhead(R) WDS.
"At Engage '08, our customers will have an important opportunity
to see for themselves how NetScout's solutions can work together with
other key network technology," said Bruce Sweet, vice president of
business development, NetScout. "Using nGenius in coordination with HP
and Riverbed adds tremendous value to all the technologies involved
and helps take some of the complexity out of managing the modern IP
network."
In late 2007, NetScout announced it was working with HP to develop
a tight integration between its technologies and HP Network Node
Manager i-series. In addition, NetScout has been working closely with
HP to deliver integration between nGenuis and the HP Business
Availability Center. Both integrations are available today and the
solutions being demonstrated at Engage '08 showcase the power of
advanced, application-aware performance alarming, analysis, and
troubleshooting when brought to bear at the front line of IT support
for both enterprise and service provider networks. The solutions also
enable early warning of application performance degradations and an
integrated workflow for problem detection and root cause analysis,
providing an edge to businesses in assuring quality delivery of
applications and services on the network.
In June 2008, NetScout and Riverbed entered an agreement whereby
NetScout would extend nGenius to support the protocol used among
Riverbed's Steelhead appliances. At Engage '08, NetScout customers
will be able to see firsthand the result of this important technology
integration that enables enterprises to collect the same detailed
information about the impact and performance of Steelhead appliances
as they do other key pieces of IT infrastructure. The combination of
NetScout's nGenius Performance Management system and Riverbed
Steelhead appliances delivers the tools network operations teams
require to establish both pre- and post-acceleration baseline network
and application performance. Armed with this data, organizations can
best evaluate the full benefits that Riverbed WDS solutions deliver.
As important, a better understanding of how specific applications
behave when accelerated can be used to identify the WAN segments that
will most benefit from acceleration using Riverbed Steelhead
appliances.
"Global business strategies require consistent network performance
and through our relationship with NetScout, our joint customers are
provided powerful tools to achieve crucial visibility into the
performance of their applications over the WAN," said Alan Saldich,
vice president of product marketing and alliances at Riverbed. "At
Engage '08, we're showing our joint enterprise customers how
end-to-end network management will result in greater capacity to
analyze, manage, optimize and accelerate business applications over
the WAN."
About NetScout Systems
NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) has been an industry leader
for advanced network and service assurance solutions for over twenty
years. NetScout's breakthrough technology solutions provide trusted,
comprehensive real-time and historical performance intelligence,
including advanced early warnings and rapid, definitive problem
analysis. These capabilities are vital to IT operators who are
accountable for reducing the Mean Time to Resolution. The world's
largest enterprises, government agencies, and service providers depend
upon NetScout's nGenius and Sniffer (formerly Network General) brand
solutions to assure service levels to their users by reducing or
preventing disruptions and degradations. More information about
NetScout is available at http://www.netscout.com.
Source: NetScout Systems, Inc.