New white paper "Essentials for Assuring Network and Application Performance" from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) provides a framework for evaluating performance monitoring and management initiatives. With this framework, you'll know if your solution delivers what you need: high-level visibility with tightly integrated workflow paths to the deepest underlying packet/flow details that can be invoked as needed.
As a network professional, it's not enough to be focused on network failures. You need to be able to assure network and application performance. And yesterday's tools can leave you shooting in the dark.
- With basic SNMP statistics, you won't know which applications or services drive usage or perform adequately.
- With flow records, such as NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, or Jflow, you're unable to track or understand the quality of end-user experience.
- With some network-based end-to-end performance monitoring tools, you're missing traffic and conversations occurring between virtual machines located on the same physical server.
Read this white paper to eliminate blind spots. With EMA's framework for evaluating performance monitoring and management initiatives you can experience 360
o network visibility.
Founded in 1996, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is a leading industry analyst and consulting firm dedicated to the IT management market. The firm provides IT vendors and enterprise IT professionals with objective insight into the real-world business value of long-established and emerging technologies, ranging from security, storage and IT Service Management (ITSM) to the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), virtualization and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Even with its rapid growth, EMA has never lost sight of the client, and continues to offer personalized support and convenient access to its analysts.