Factiva, Hanover Compressor Company and UCSF Take Advantage of
NetScout's nGenius Solution
WESTFORD, Mass., March 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NetScout Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: NTCT), a leading provider of enterprise-wide network and application
performance management solutions, today announced several premier new
customers that are using the nGenius(R) Performance Management System.
Among the new customers are:
*Factiva(R), a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, which helps global
companies integrate internal and external news and business information
into their daily workflow to increase organizational intelligence.
Factiva purchased the nGenius Solution to help ensure the performance
of its Web-based products. In particular, Factiva is using the nGenius
Solution to remotely troubleshoot the local area networks in its
primary and secondary data centers.
*Hanover Compressor Company, a global market leader that provides full
service natural gas compression and a leading provider of service,
fabrication and equipment for oil and natural gas processing and
transportation applications. Hanover Compressor selected the nGenius
Solution to improve the performance of enterprise applications being
delivered across its new, high-speed core and wide area networks
connecting its Texas headquarters to many domestic and international
remote sites. One of the key applications being monitored is a new
Oracle-based ERP system, which will support more than 5,000 employees
worldwide.
*University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), one of the world's
premier health sciences universities and a leader in biomedical
research. UCSF recently selected the nGenius Solution to ensure smooth
network and application performance during a major upgrade of its
PeopleSoft system. The system supports approximately 18,000 faculty and
staff members. UCSF's large network covers three medical campuses in
San Francisco and more than 100 remote campuses and regional clinics.
"Major network initiatives such as Voice-over-IP, VPN, upgrades and re-
designs provide strong justification for implementing our solution," said Jim
Frey, NetScout's vice president of marketing. "With the visibility into the
network provided by the nGenius Solution, organizations can perform a more
complete audit of infrastructure activity and be better prepared for major
technology roll-outs. After going live, the nGenius Solution provides the
proactive, vendor-independent confirmation that business-critical applications
are meeting service demands."
The nGenius Performance Management System unifies network and application
performance management for the converging enterprise. NetScout's flagship
application, nGenius(R) Performance Manager, leverages the unified data made
available through NetScout's patent-pending CDMTM technology to deliver
consistent utilization, response time and availability metrics for application
monitoring, network monitoring, capacity planning, troubleshooting, fault
prevention and service level management-all from a single, fully integrated
solution.
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.
All rights reserved. NetScout and the NetScout logo, and nGenius are
registered trademarks of NetScout Systems, Inc. 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 Dawn Sullivan
NetScout Systems Schwartz Communications, Inc.
(978) 614-4162 (781) 684-0770
flynnp@netscout.com netscout@schwartz-pr.com
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