With explosion of consumer devices, IT finds greater need for network …
Computerworld - The rapid addition of consumer tablets and smartphones to corporate networks has created a greater demand for network-based application traffic analysis tools.
AppNeta, an application performance management software vendor, recently announced a cloud-based approach for its software-as-a-service offering called PathView Cloud.
The tool, which runs on top of AppNeta’s existing FlowView service, is designed to provide IT teams with information for analyzing network traffic and troubleshooting performance problems.
AppNeta, in a statement, cited Bill Gillis, an IT manager of clinical application services at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center In Boston, as an early user of the service. Prior to using PathView Cloud with FlowView, Gillis said IT used to spend weeks trying to find the causes of mysterious performance problems, but the new tools were able to pinpoint issues quickly and proved to be a great “bang for the buck.”
Gillis said AppNeta went beyond the traditional capabilities found in tools based on NetFlow, a network protocol for traffic analysis created by Enterasys Networks and Cisco.
Cliff Chapman, CEO of LinkStatus, a U.K.-based company that provides network application performance management for customers, said he had similar success using AppNeta’s FlowView technology to find the causes of network performance problems for
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