Will Highlight Approaches to Leverage Automation to Move Performance Management Processes from Reactive to ProactiveWESTFORD, Mass., June 22, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- NetScout Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: NTCT), a leading provider of network and application performance
management solutions, today announced that it will hold its fourth annual
NetScout User Forum conference on October 5-7, 2005 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
in Cambridge, Mass. The conference, "Automation: Reactive to Proactive," will
examine how enterprise and government IT organizations can benefit from
increasing automation and higher definition in application and network
performance management to evolve to faster, more intelligent, cost-effective,
and proactive approaches to managing infrastructure performance. All end-users
of NetScout products are invited to attend the event.
Attendees of the full three-day conference have the opportunity to learn
and share their knowledge on performance management at an even greater number
of technical sessions than last year's conference, including:
- Best practices workshops and customer case study panels;
- A town meeting-style idea exchange;
- One-on-one training labs on the nGenius(R) Performance Management
System with NetScout experts;
- New nGenius product feature demonstrations, including High-Definition
Performance Management, nGenius Flow Recorder and nGenius Flow
Collector;
- Product roadmap and strategy presentations and Q&A sessions with
NetScout senior management; and
- A look at the next steps in automation and analytics in performance
management, as enabled by the NetScout acquisition of Quantiva
Progressive Analytics(TM) technology.
Attendees will have numerous networking opportunities, hands-on product
training and access to the product experts throughout the conference,
culminating with a Gala dinner hosted at the John F. Kennedy Library in
Boston.
The conference will also feature keynote technologist and networking
expert speakers Daniel Burrus and Dr. Jim Metzler for their thought-provoking
analyses of industry and technology trends.
- Mr. Burrus, a principal at Burrus Research Associates, is one of the
world's leading technology forecasters and business strategists, and
the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed Technotrends.
Over the past two decades, Mr. Burrus has established a worldwide
reputation for accurately predicting the future of technological change
and its impact on the world of business.
- Dr. Metzler, of IT analysis and consulting firm Ashton Metzler &
Associates, has a unique perspective on IT industry trends and how they
are being shaped by many new and challenging business initiatives. An
authority on network technology and its business applications with
nearly three decades of experience, he has been the keynote speaker on
Network World seminar tours.
"Building on the success of our sold-out show last year, NetScout looks
forward to another great conference to expand our relationship with more than
800 User Forum members worldwide. We intend to offer more insight into some of
the best practices for applying our products," said June Nugent, director of
knowledge resources for NetScout Systems. "The conference also provides an
opportunity to examine how a number of emerging technologies will impact our
customers' work and their business."
Jim Frey, vice president of marketing for NetScout, said, "High-Definition
Performance Management is already receiving a warm welcome among our installed
base. Our customers have also told us that automation and analytics
technologies offer even greater potential for optimizing and simplifying
performance management in their production environments. The NetScout User
Forum conference represents an important strategic venue for NetScout to
constructively cultivate and maintain close dialogue about these and other
related topics with our most valued resource -- our customers."
To register for the conference, or join the membership of the NetScout
User Forum, please visit http://www.netscoutuserforum.com/nuf05.htm.
About the NetScout User Forum
The NetScout User Forum is a company-sponsored, customer-led group that
focuses on the best use of NetScout 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 at http://www.netscoutuserforum.com/.
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
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.
NetScout and the NetScout logo, nGenius, and Quantiva are registered
trademarks of NetScout Systems, Inc. The CDM logo, 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.
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