Management Complexity Solved as Multiple Disciplines Converge Under One
Solution; New Product Releases Deliver on CDM Promise
WESTFORD, Mass., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NetScout Systems
(Nasdaq: NTCT) today announced the completed delivery of its CDM(TM)
Architecture in its nGenius(R) Performance Management System, the industry's
first next-generation solution that unifies and elevates best practices in
managing enterprise-wide network and application performance. The solution
includes an enhanced, unified performance management application, nGenius(R)
Performance Manager 2.0 and significantly expanded data collection and
analysis capabilities for the entire family of nGenius(R) Probes. In
addition, the company unveiled nGenius(R) Express, a full-featured, rapidly
deployable solution that will streamline the acquisition of NetScout's
proactive technology for new customers and allow NetScout channel partners to
more efficiently sell the nGenius solution. All of the products in today's
announcement are based on the company's patent-pending CDM Architecture, first
announced one year ago.
Working with premier companies across major industry and government
segments worldwide, NetScout has seen the need for performance management as
well-established, yet the benefits not well-realized. As organizations have
attempted to manage the performance of their complex, multi-technology IT
environments, they have been forced into narrow and splintered approaches that
produce significant cost, deployment and scalability problems. Seeking to
solve these challenges for its customers, NetScout initiated its CDM-based
strategy to unify network and application performance management across the
enterprise. The new nGenius solution delivers enterprise-wide, top-down,
information-rich perspectives on the performance of business-critical
networked applications from a single, unified system. The new solution brings
together the information, features and functions necessary to address multiple
network and application performance management disciplines within a single
product.
NetScout is completing its CDM Architecture with the release of new and
enhanced products across the full nGenius system:
* nGenius Performance Manager 2.0 - now eliminates management complexity
by unifying the information, features and functions of multiple
performance management disciplines within a single product. It delivers
seamlessly integrated network and application monitoring, capacity
planning and reporting, troubleshooting, fault prevention and service-
level management using enterprise-wide, unified information that has
been gathered and stored via NetScout's patent-pending CDM(TM)
Architecture. Expanded data collection includes new types of application
and protocol support, application flow records from industry-leading
routers and switches and basic traffic statistics from SNMP-enabled
infrastructure elements.
* nGenius Probe Firmware 6.0 - the industry's most advanced technology for
monitoring, collecting and analyzing performance data across the
enterprise, now includes a host of new features with support for
multiple new applications and protocols, traffic analysis by network QoS
level, integrated passive and active response time data collection,
innovative evidentiary threshold alarms, and CDM Probe Adaptors for
gathering and analyzing flow records such as sFlow and NetFlow from
industry-leading switches and routers.
* nGenius Express - now IT organizations seeking to advance their
management practices from reactive to proactive can obtain the full
power of the nGenius solution in a rapidly-deployable package designed
for new customers. The solution accelerates customers' time-to-value by
offering, in one package, a full-featured version of nGenius Performance
Manager 2.0 pre-installed on an appliance, an nGenius Probe of the
customer's choice and a full year of maintenance coverage. The offering
also includes on-site configuration and training services. It will also
benefit NetScout channel partners by simplifying the introduction and
sale of NetScout technology to customers in the U.S. and overseas.
"NetScout is again helping us optimize our infrastructure better by making
more information directly available for our decisions," said Jake Star, vice
president of technical services for Mohegan Sun. "In the past, many tasks
required multiple tools to get the right kinds of data. Using the nGenius
solution, all of these tools are delivered in a single product. We can
collect, organize and save the response time and utilization metrics for our
applications into a live 'workspace' that presents everything in the same
screen. In addition, it does the work of putting these various sources of
data into a consistent context for decision-making. With NetScout, we are
protected from acquiring excessive tools and getting lost in the data. By
going after our IT problems instead of our budget, NetScout has earned its
place as one of our key IT vendors."
"Enterprises are increasingly defining their business processes and then
building IT services to support them," said Stephen Elliot, senior analyst,
network management for IDC. "To manage services in a business context,
performance management technologies must deliver granular information that
exposes the performance and costs of supporting applications and end users
throughout the entire network. NetScout is building a platform for delivering
this type of granularity that helps increase IT satisfaction by identifying
and solving problems at every stage of IT service delivery, before they cause
revenue loss."
"NetScout has spent the last several years listening closely to our
customers' needs and working diligently to meet and exceed them," said Michael
Szabados, senior vice president of product operations for NetScout. "This
announcement not only represents the culmination of these efforts, it also
represents a significant step forward in the evolution of proactive
performance management solutions in the network management industry."
Availability
nGenius Performance Manager 2.0, nGenius Probe firmware 6.0, and nGenius
Express will be available within 30 days. For additional information about
nGenius solutions, call NetScout Systems at 1-800-357-7666 or visit our
Website at http://www.netscout.com.
About NetScout Systems, Inc.
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT) is a market leader and pioneer of
integrated network performance management products that unify performance
across the enterprise. NetScout's nGenius(R) Performance Management System is
helping more than 3000 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.
Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe
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financial performance of NetScout, constitute forward-looking statements which
involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from
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actual results to differ include, without limitation, risks and uncertainties
associated with the company's strategic relationships with Cisco Systems and
other partners, dependence upon broad-based acceptance of the company's
network performance management solutions, the company's ability to achieve and
maintain a high rate of growth, introduction and market acceptance of new
products and product enhancements such as the delivery of nGenius(R) product
platform probes and software solutions and the implementation of the Company's
CDM(TM) Technology strategy, the ability of NetScout to take advantage of
service provider opportunities, competitive pricing pressures, reliance on
sole source suppliers, successful expansion and management of direct and
indirect distribution channels, and dependence on proprietary technology, as
well as risks associated with a continued climate of tight IT spending, and
risks of further slowdowns or downturns in economic conditions generally and
in the market for network performance management solutions specifically. For a
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please refer to the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended March 31, 2003, on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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