With More Than 1,800 Readers Casting Ballots, NetScout's Sniffer Application Intelligence Earns Gold Award in Applications and Network Management Category WESTFORD, Mass., March 19, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- NetScout Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: NTCT), the industry pacesetter for advanced network and service
assurance solutions, today announced that NetScout's Sniffer Application
Intelligence received SearchNetworking.com's 2008 Product Leadership Gold
Award in the applications and network management category.
According to the editors, the annual awards aim to cut through the noise
and identify products that enterprise IT professionals should consider adding
to their "A" lists of networking products to evaluate. Winning products were
selected by 1,800 networking professionals based on their assessment of
products currently deployed within their own enterprises. SearchNetworking.com
asked participants to evaluate the networking products according to defined
product-specific criteria each of which was assigned a weighted value based on
importance, with cumulative scores calculated for each product.
SearchNetworking.com editors used these scores to determine Gold, Silver and
Bronze award winners for the industry's best networking products.
Survey respondents gave high marks to the product for its ability to
detect network problems, its ability to measure application quality or
experience, and its ability to measure traffic against defined benchmarks. To
learn more about why NetScout's Sniffer Application Intelligence was
recognized for this honor, please visit Product Leadership Awards 2008
(http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/productsOfTheYear).
"What more can we ask but to have our technology recognized in such a
positive way by those using it on a daily basis?" said Jim Frey, vice
president, Marketing, NetScout. "The applications and services being
delivered by modern IP networks are the lifeblood of today's business.
Receiving this award is important validation that our solutions are making a
difference and are giving our customers the means to keep their businesses
running at peak performance."
NetScout's Sniffer Application Intelligence provides rich retrospective
analysis for all active applications, using detailed data mining of packet
trace sequences. The definitive results allow operations teams to understand
how applications and network resources interact, maximizing the performance of
whole system. The solution delivers detailed troubleshooting capabilities for
hundreds of "well known" applications such as SAP R/3, MS Exchange and Oracle,
as well as proprietary, in-house developed applications, speeding problem
diagnosis for even the most difficult performance problems.
About NetScout Systems
NetScout Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTCT) has been an industry leader for
advanced network and service assurance solutions for over twenty years.
NetScout's breakthrough technology solutions provide trusted, comprehensive
real-time and historical performance intelligence, including advanced early
warnings and rapid, definitive problem analysis. These capabilities are vital
to IT operators who are accountable for reducing the Mean Time to Resolution.
The world's largest enterprises, government agencies, and service providers
depend upon NetScout's nGenius and Sniffer (formerly Network General) brand
solutions to assure service levels to their users by reducing or preventing
disruptions and degradations. More information about NetScout is available at
http://www.netscout.com.
About SearchNetworking.com
SearchNetworking.com is one of the largest and most active online
communities dedicated to the enterprise network. Over 300,000 IT professionals
rely on SearchNetworking.com for industry news, technical tips and valuable
best practices on routing, switching, network security, network and
applications management and wireless LANs, so they can keep their networks up
to date and cope with constant change. More information is available at
www.SearchNetworking.com.
Headquartered in Needham, Mass., SearchNetworking.com is part of the
TechTarget(R) network (www.techtarget.com). TechTarget publishes integrated
media that enable information-technology (IT) marketers to reach targeted
communities of IT professionals and executives in all phases of the technology
decision-making and purchase process.
Christine Johansen
NetScout Systems, Inc.
978.614.4113
johansenc@netscout.com
Rob Morton
Davies Murphy Group, Inc.
781.418.2460
netscout@daviesmurphy.com
SOURCE NetScout Systems, Inc.
http://www.netscout.com