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NetSensory Enterprise Architecture delivers distributed intelligence for global application infrastructure visibility, troubleshooting, and reporting. Product is based on operating system, NetSensoryT OS v4.0, which runs company's NP-2000 appliance and NP-DirectorT. Each appliance collects, baselines, correlates, and stores detailed application service flow knowledge then reports high-level summary, along with automatic or user-programmed alerts.
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Network Physics Introduces NetSensory Enterprise Architecture
Industry's First Distributed Intelligence for Global Applications InfrastructureVisibility, Troubleshooting and Reporting
Mountain View, Calif., September 27, 2004 - Network Physics, the leader in network application management across converging networks, today introduced the NetSensory Enterprise Architecture-the industry's first distributed intelligence for global applications infrastructure visibility, troubleshooting and reporting. This architecture is based on a new, distributed operating system, the NetSensoryT OS 4.0, which runs on both the company's award-winning NP-2000 appliance and a new hardware appliance, the NP-DirectorT. For the first time, the NetSensory solution provides global visibility to help enterprises ensure the integrity and security of their entire applications infrastructure-end-to-end, across the network from servers to clients.
IT departments are still struggling to effectively pinpoint the source of application infrastructure response time issues, despite implementing a variety of network management tools. Current tools provide a fragmented view of the network that lacks user and application context, cannot deploy across new public and shared services, and cannot effectively scale for real-time application infrastructure performance visibility. In contrast, the Network Physics NetSensory Enterprise Architecture harnesses the distributed intelligence of NP-2000 appliances at the edge, enabling broad visibility into end-to-end application service flows, management across all converged network types and unlimited real-time scalability.
"Today's centralized management tools lack application and user relevance, can't scale, aren't real-time, and fail to provide clear visibility across converging public and private networks," said Bob Quillin, vice president of marketing and product management at Network Physics. "The NetSensory Enterprise Architecture is the only platform designed to answer the needs of the new distributed environment by relying on edge intelligence and a federated database model. It sets a new standard in real-time scalability and global application infrastructure visibility."
Precise Troubleshooting of Application Infrastructure Delays
The Enterprise-Wide Service Topology is the industry's first real-time, service topology map, displaying the performance of active application service flows across the global enterprise including site to site, data center to branch office, and server farm to business unit. This topology map, when combined with the Network Physics enterprise problem dashboard, enables global troubleshooting, so both local and global managers can easily discover and pinpoint application infrastructure performance delays among business entities, from which they can drill down to specific IP conversations to diagnose a variety of conditions including application infrastructure response problems, worm and virus infections, and MPLS network delays.
End-to-End Reporting Brings Together Server, Application, and Network Teams
The NetSensory business-ready enterprise reporting capabilities enhance collaboration among traditionally warring IT departments. They achieve this by providing a common, application- and user-relevant way to report end-to-end, application infrastructure issues that span server, application and network components.
Instant Detection and Diagnosis of Worms and Viruses
The NP-Director allows distributed isolation of infection hotspots by tracking the propagation of worm and virus infections detected and diagnosed by a NetSensory domain of distributed NP-2000s. This enables more effective security triage and incident response management.
The Architecture: NetSensory OS, The NP-Director and the NP-2000
Like the human autonomic nervous system, the NetSensory OS can integrate a wide range of "sensory" inputs from many different sources into an integrated, real-time picture while retaining the ability to react quickly to emergencies on a local scale. The unique flexibility of the NetSensory OS permits both local and global configuration without conflict, preserving the managerial roles and responsibilities determined by business needs, rather than imposing its own structure. The NP-Director is a new global management appliance that leverages the edge intelligence of NP-2000s by collecting summary and aggregate information to troubleshoot global application infrastructure response time issues and enable top-down enterprise visibility and reporting. NP-2000 appliances form the intelligent edge via their regional collection, baselining, correlation and federated storage.
How The NetSensory Enterprise Architecture Works
After locally collecting, baselining, correlating and storing detailed application service flow knowledge, each NP-2000 reports a high-level summary of this information, along with automatic or user-programmed alerts, to the NP-Director coordinating the domain. With the NP-Director, global managers have a unified view from all appliances. The NetSensory OS in the NP-Director presents business-relevant information and alerts via a rich collection of tables, charts and topological views from which the user can drill down, transparently and automatically, to the more detailed information stored on the database in each NP-2000 appliance.
The NP-Director can coordinate up to 20 NP-2000 appliances, creating a distributed network application management solution whose federated database offers 2.7 terabytes of storage and whose packet-processing capability approaches 2.5 million packets/second at speeds exceeding 15 gigabytes/second.
Each NP-2000 appliance that reports data to the NP-Director can be installed in less than an hour and imposes no burden on the network and requires no agents, synthetic transactions or SNMP. All measurements and end-to-end response time metrics are gathered from the users' real network traffic, not from synthetic transactions. Each NP-2000 is totally self-sufficient, greatly reducing the management burden by comparison to centralized, device-oriented systems.
Pricing and Availability
The NetSensory OS and the NP-Director are shipping now. Typical initial deployments, consisting of two to three NP-2000s and one NP-Director, range from $150,000 to $250,000, depending on the needs of the individual enterprise.
About Network Physics
The Network Physics award-winning network application management solution helps enterprises ensure the integrity and security of the applications infrastructure by eliminating response-time problems across converging networks. The company's patented technology applies proven techniques from high-energy physics to assure the delivery of business-critical networked applications and services, and gives the IT staff unprecedented visibility into applications and services to better align IT operations with business priorities. This enables users to dramatically reduce the time and cost of new application and service delivery, improve service quality and uptime, align IT operations with business priorities, and reduce operating costs by finding and fixing problems faster. Network Physics was founded in March 1999, and its products are currently deployed at a wide range of Global 2000 corporations. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.networkphysics.com.
