2011 Network Instruments News
eWeek Labs
Monitor to Manage
October 11, 2011: Cloud computing moves the “do I care” technical conversation to new and different places, but at the end of the day someone still has to care about network and application performance at the physical level.
Today Network Instruments announced Observer 15, the latest rev of the useful network monitoring platform. This is a tool for people who must care for complex networks, for people who are not “abstracted away” from the underlying compute infrastructure. Observer 15 is for the highly knowledgeable, buck-stops-here engineers that keep make it possible for the airy structures of the cloud.
TMCnet
Network Instruments Launches Observer 15
October 19, 2011: Network Instruments (News - Alert), a worldwide leader in network and application performance monitoring, recently launched the latest version of its Observer performance management platform. Addressing critical application challenges in validating video conferencing performance, the solution supports complex communications and multi-tiered application environments. It also helps network managers address network overhead and scalability limitations challenges while deploying performance management systems in the data center.
TMCnet
Network Instruments Reports Infrastructure Monitoring Solution
September 2, 2011: Network Instruments, a provider of network and application performance monitoring, announced its infrastructure monitoring solution Observer Infrastructure now provides visibility into public and private cloud components and in-depth tracking of cloud provider performance.
Network World
Products of the Week
September 5, 2011: Observer Infrastructure 3.0 (OI 3.0) provides extensive metrics and insight into Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) performance for major providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google App Engine, Rackspace, GoGrid, and Hosting.com, by utilizing cloud vendor APIs and CloudKick. Critical cloud service performance metrics including CPU, disk activity, user experience, and memory can be viewed within the context of overall IT operations to validate performance of cloud investments.
Light Reading
New Product Recap: June 2011
July 7, 2011: [Network Instruments] has increased the write-to-disk and analysis performance by up to 116 per cent on its GigaStor retrospective network analysis appliances. The improved performance, achieved through software and hardware enhancements, allows network teams to capture and save full-duplex 10Gbit/s traffic to disk at line rate utilizing a smaller form factor.
Information Management
New Cloud Performance Monitoring Tool Available
September 1, 2011: Network Instruments, a provider of network and application performance monitoring technologies, announced that its infrastructure monitoring system, Observer Infrastructure, now provides visibility into public and private cloud components and in-depth cloud performance tracking.
Network Computing
Network Instruments Introduces Native Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
August 30, 2011: Enterprises can now directly monitor the status of their network devices, servers and applications in the cloud with the latest release of Network Instruments' Observer Infrastructure (OI) product. OI 3.0 also provides enhanced monitoring of virtual environments utilizing vBlocks, the pre-integrated, pre-configured virtual cloud environment packages from the partnership of EMC, Cisco, VMware and Intel, and FlexPod, a similar capability delivered by NetApp on Cisco network infrastructure.
Enterprise Systems
Network Instruments Assures Public, Private Cloud Application Delivery
August 31, 2011: The newest version of OI provides insight into Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) performance for major providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google App Engine, Rackspace, GoGrid, and Hosting.com by utilizing cloud-vendor APIs and CloudKick. Critical cloud-service performance metrics (including CPU, disk activity, user experience, and memory) can be viewed within the context of overall IT operations to validate performance of cloud investments.
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Clearing Up 'The Cloud'
July 13, 2011: Brad Reinboldt, Sr. Product Manager at Network Instruments wrote an article on Cloud computing and it growth. His article shows that usage of cloud applications has increased by 20 percent in the last year according to a polling of attendees of Interop, a leading US IT conference, released by Network Instruments. Of course, organizations want to know how it will affect their network management and if the pros will outweigh the cons. In order to do this, let’s first discuss what makes up the cloud.
TelecomReseller
Network Instruments: The big and small view of your network
July 31, 2011: Network Instruments Product Marketing Manager Brad Reinboldt talks about the unique perspective Network Instruments offers, including support for companies getting into cloud and virtualization.
Datamation
Cloud Computing Management and Monitoring: 7 Emerging Vendors: Page 2
June 28, 2011: Network Instrument’s performance management platform allows IT operations managers to isolate issues as soon as they arise, investigating and remedying the cause before critical losses occur. IT teams can track performance and availability in real time or retrospectively, and they can also compare the performance of internally hosted services to those from service providers.
Network World – March 27, 2011
Kwik Trip Convenience Store Chain Likes Fast Packet Capture
"We're bringing NetFlow traffic and network trending data from all our international and major U.S. offices into the Observer Suite, which runs on our ORS platform. So what we've been working on this year is bringing all that data together and providing more visibility," says Dave Schraudt, network analyst at the Fortune 500 corporation.
Forbes - February 28, 2011
Virtualization and the cloud: The trouble is troubleshooting
"Managing cloud services does present new challenges for the network, however. Chief among the difficulties cited was a lack of tools to properly monitor the network."
LoveMyTool.com – February 23, 2011
Application life cycle management
“Though you may not know it, with today’s multi-tiered and distributed applications, making sure the service runs in a manner that provides acceptable end-user experience demands tight collaboration between network, infrastructure and applications groups.”
Enterprise Storage Journal – February 15, 2011
Ten ways to avoid performance black holes in data center build outs
Will my monitoring tools provide visibility and analysis into these new data center technologies and challenges?” Here are 10 key capabilities your performance management solution will need to successfully monitor data center performance and avoid visibility black holes.
Processor – February 11, 2011
Enterprise videoconferencing: rethink & reshape your communication landscape
“According to Network Instruments’ State of the Network Global Study, nearly two-thirds of today’s companies have implemented videoconferencing technologies to some extent, and that number is expected to reach 90% in the next two years.”
The DNS Zone (TMCnet) – February 2, 2011
Network Instruments' nTAPs exceed 67,000 ports shipped
Network Instruments shipped its 67,000th port for network access and monitoring. The company achieved this significant milestone by recording strong year-over-year revenue growth of 20 percent in 2010.
Key on IT – January 12, 2011
Virtualization solutions create problems, or challenges if you prefer
Identifying the root cause of problems is one of the most vexing issues that confront people managing virtualized environments. At times it can be like finding a needle in a haystack.
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