WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 28, 2017--
NETSCOUT
SYSTEMS, INC., (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of business
assurance, a powerful combination of service assurance, cybersecurity,
and business intelligence solutions, today announced that Paul Barrett,
NETSCOUT’s chief technology officer for Enterprise, was voted in as a
co-chair of the Open
Networking User Group (ONUG) Monitoring & Analytics 2.0 Open IT
Framework Initiatives committee. ONUG’s mission is to enable greater
choice and options for IT business leaders by advocating for open
interoperable hardware and software-defined infrastructure solutions
that span across the entire IT stack, all in an effort to create
business value.
“Ensuring IT organizations can maintain full visibility of their
applications and services as they migrate to the cloud is a central part
of NETSCOUT’s mission,” stated Paul Barrett, chief technology officer,
NETSCOUT. “ONUG brings together senior executives from IT organizations
and vendors alike, and provides a forum where we can discuss the
opportunities and challenges presented by digital transformation and how
we – as an industry – can best meet them.”
ONUG, founded in 2012, is a community of 5,000 IT end users and
currently has 31 vendor member companies who are actively working year
round to advance a set of new industry initiatives focused on open IT
frameworks developed by the IT user community. NETSCOUT joined ONUG in
2016.
“We are pleased to have NETSCOUT as an active member of ONUG and look
forward to drawing on their expertise to coordinate and drive the
Monitoring & Analytics 2.0 initiative,” said Nick Lippis, co-chairman
and co-founder, ONUG. “This new initiative will focus on infrastructure
analytic applications and monitoring 2.0, spanning from the state
information and format required from underlay and overlay components, to
its storage and retrieval in a data lake, to a range of new applications
that assist IT business leaders and operational teams with their
best-of-breed solution integration work and lifecycle management of
cloud-based software-defined infrastructure.”
About ONUG
ONUG is the leading community of IT executives focused on enabling
greater choice and options for IT business leaders by advocating open
interoperable hardware and software-defined infrastructure solutions
that span across the entire IT stack, all in an effort to create
business value. The ONUG Board is composed of IT leaders from Bank of
America, BNY Mellon, Cigna, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, eBay, FedEx,
Fidelity Investments, Gap Inc., GE, Intuit, JPMorgan Chase, the Lippis
Report, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, TD Ameritrade, UBS, and Yahoo. For more
on ONUG, go to www.OpenNetworkingUserGroup.com
or follow us on Twitter @ONUG_.
About NETSCOUT
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is a leading provider of business
assurance – a powerful combination of service assurance, cybersecurity,
and business intelligence solutions – for today’s most demanding service
provider, enterprise and government networks. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive
Service Intelligence (ASI) technology continuously monitors the service
delivery environment to identify performance issues and provides insight
into network-based security threats, helping teams to quickly resolve
issues that can cause business disruptions or impact user experience.
NETSCOUT delivers unmatched service visibility and protects the digital
infrastructure that supports our connected world. To learn more, visit www.netscout.com
or follow @NETSCOUT on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
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