The nGenius Application Fabric Monitor Combines Benefits of
Monitoring and Analysis with Extended Packet Capture and Decode in
High-Performance Design
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2006-- NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of
application and network performance management solutions, today
introduced the nGenius(R) Application Fabric Monitor, the industry's
first performance management appliance to simultaneously collect
performance metrics for real-time and historical analysis and record
full packet streams for forensic analysis. The new product provides
the network-based application visibility that enterprises need to
proactively identify and resolve performance problems and assure
business service reliability in an increasingly complex and high speed
network environment.
The nGenius Application Fabric Monitor's combination of
distributed packet recording, analysis and flow-based monitoring is
another step to meet the challenge of managing the 'Application
Fabric' underlying enterprise IT services. The Application Fabric
refers to the interconnected, virtualized resource infrastructure used
to deliver the applications that underpin business processes. In such
complex environments, IT operations require solutions that can provide
automated analysis of application performance from a network vantage
point with deep packet-level visibility and analysis when necessary.
One of the limitations of traditional statistical monitoring
approaches is their inability to retain all the packet details
underlying performance problems, especially when they are
intermittent. Newer devices for continuous capture of packet streams
have emerged, but lack the cross-enterprise, high-level views
necessary for analyzing and correlating service degradations. The
nGenius Application Fabric Monitor overcomes these handicaps by
combining both functions into a single appliance specially designed to
deliver high-performance and high-capacity packet recording with
simultaneous enterprise-wide network-based application flow
monitoring.
"While packet-level recording is necessary for troubleshooting
certain severe performance problems, medium and large enterprises will
struggle to effectively manage application performance working solely
from the bottom-up with packet decodes. Manually digging through
packets for every issue just isn't scalable for companies with large
mission-critical networks," said Rich Ptak, Partner and Principal
Analyst at analyst firm Ptak Noel & Associates. "NetScout's
combination of packet recording and decodes with monitoring and
automated analysis for key network links or aggregation points
demonstrates a clear understanding of the operational realities facing
enterprise IT groups."
The new architecture of the nGenius Application Fabric Monitor is
another example of NetScout's leadership in innovation for performance
management. It uses on-board processing to avoid inefficient
client-based analysis mechanisms that require massive recorded packet
streams to be transferred over the network, slowing problem resolution
times and further burdening network resources. Additionally, its
processing architecture accommodates simultaneous recording of traffic
flows with always-on real-time monitoring of critical performance
metrics. Competitors either require multiple devices to accomplish
both functions, use multiple steps to record all the data and then
analyze it, taxing the system and providing non-real-time statistics,
or must turn off either recording or monitoring functionalities while
the other is engaged.
"This product is another fundamental element in NetScout's
Application Fabric Performance Management strategy, providing
unparalleled granular visibility into application performance from our
crucial network vantage point," said Michael Szabados, senior vice
president of product operations for NetScout. "We're meeting our
customers' need for combined recording and performance monitoring with
a leading-edge device that can meet today's demands and lays the
groundwork for monitoring new application types and architectures."
NetScout architected the new product from the ground up to meet
the evolving demands for enterprise-class performance management. To
ensure high performance and availability, it features dual CPUs,
RAID-5 storage with hot-swappable disk drives, separate dual disk
drives for the operating system and redundant hot-swappable power
supplies.
The nGenius Application Fabric Monitor
- Captures continuous packet streams on the network, maintaining
an audit trail for forensic analysis and incident
reconstruction, using technology now fielded in NetScout's
nGenius Flow Recorder;
- Combines precision data mining, intuitive graphical views, a
powerful decode engine and sub-second granularity for
pinpointing difficult, subtle, or intermittent network and
application problems;
- Collects and maps traffic flow statistics from Gigabit
Ethernet links, virtual circuits, and remote sites, providing
business-relevant application-level information for real-time
troubleshooting and historical reporting, based on NetScout's
Common Data Model (CDM) technology from the nGenius Probe
family;
- Delivers an integrated solution for automatically monitoring
business-relevant information, troubleshooting with
drill-downs in High Definition (using 1-minute measurements
with 1-second peak values) to all applications, hosts, and
conversations, and when necessary for particularly difficult
issues or to research problems reported after they occur, to a
trace file of all packets from the recent past;
- Supports a variety of alerting mechanisms for the nGenius
Solution including nGenius Analytics intelligent alerts based
on anomalous network activity, and for third-party enterprise
or network management systems; and
- Allows network organizations to reduce the total cost of
ownership by reducing the number of in-line devices needed for
monitoring and recording, based on lower maintenance and staff
training costs.
Availability, Configuration & Pricing
The nGenius Application Fabric Monitor is now available in two
configurations with five or eight terabytes of on-board storage.
Pricing begins at $79,995.
About NetScout Systems
NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is a market leader and
pioneer of integrated application and network performance management
products and solutions that help IT organizations assure critical
business services across the enterprise. More than 3000 leading
companies and government organizations worldwide have deployed
NetScout's nGenius(R) Performance Management System to 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, Progressive Analytics 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.
CONTACT: NetScout Systems, Inc.
Dylan Locsin, 978-614-4113
locsind@netscout.com
or
Davies Murphy Group
Brian Alberti, 781-418-2403
netscout@daviesmurphy.com
www.netscout.com
SOURCE: NetScout Systems, Inc.