Network Performance Management Software optimizes application availability.
Press Release Summary:
As unified system, Visual Performance Manager(TM) v6.0 provides actionable visibility to help deploy, manage, solve, and optimize delivery of enterprise applications. It correlates network utilization metrics flow data sources with application response metrics to manage network performance for optimal level of granularity. Also included, IntelliTrace(TM) feature provides intelligent trace file retrieval based on specific application performance event or degradation in service delivery.
Original Press Release:
Fluke Networks Introduces Visual Performance Manager(TM) 6.0
New Ability to Correlate Network Utilization and Application Performance Metrics Provides Enterprise-Wide Visibility for Better Networked Application Performance Management
EVERETT, Washington - Fluke Networks today announced the release of Visual Performance Manager(TM) 6.0, a unified system that provides actionable visibility to help organizations deploy, manage, solve and optimize the delivery of enterprise applications. The newest version of Visual Performance Manager offers all levels of the organization superior visibility and in-depth analysis by correlating network utilization metrics flow data sources with application response metrics to manage network performance for a level of granularity previously unavailable to users. This level of networked application visibility allows large distributed organizations to gain efficiencies, better leverage existing investments in network infrastructure and deliver better results by quickly driving to root cause and problem resolution.
This version of Visual Performance Manager also introduces IntelliTrace(TM), a patent pending technology that, within seconds, provides users with an intelligent trace file retrieval that is based on a particular application performance event or degradation in service delivery. With this technology, users can go from a transaction to the relevant packets which can then be easily shared with counterparts or supporting vendors.
"In today's business climate everyone is being asked to do more with less and discover even more organizational efficiencies to save time and critical dollars," said Lyn Cantor, Vice President and General Manager, Fluke Networks Systems. "With Visual Performance Manager 6.0, we deliver a best-in-class system designed to provide superior visibility into network and application performance at all levels of the IT organization and during all phases of core IT projects, whether application life cycle management, infrastructure change, data center consolidation or IT governance."
"For the network to be perceived as delivering good service quality, it must be measured in terms of the application performance it enables."
Gartner, Inc. "2008 Polling Results Show That Data Center Network Managers Are Increasingly Being Tasked With Meeting Application Performance Goals" by Debra Curtis & Will Cappelli. May 14, 2009
Being able to provide correlated application performance and usage metrics will provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 network operations teams with improved efficiency in their ability to quickly isolate problem domain when dealing with networked application issues. For line of business executives, application and network performance can be grouped and viewed as business functions such as a project, department, or business unit. The ability to link performance information to the business allows line of business executives to determine the impact of application performance on the business.
Fluke Networks' Visual Performance Manager 6.0 is now available and can be purchased directly from Fluke Networks or one its value added reseller partners. For more information visit www.flukenetworksperformance.com or call (888) 29-FLUKE.
About Fluke Networks
Fluke Networks provides innovative solutions for the installation and certification, testing, performance management, monitoring and analysis of copper, fiber and wireless networks used by enterprises and telecommunications carriers. The company's comprehensive line of Network SuperVision(TM) Solutions provide network installers, managers, owners, and maintainers with superior vision, combining speed, accuracy and ease of use to optimize network performance. Headquartered in Everett, Washington, the company distributes its products in more than 50 countries. More information can be found by visiting Fluke Networks' Web site at www.flukenetworks.com or by calling (888) 29-FLUKE.
