Emulex launches Endace Fusion Ecosystem Programme

The Endace Fusion Ecosystem programme recognises that providing the right data to Network Operations (NetOps) and Security Operations (SecOps) personnel is critical to identifying and correcting network issues. The Endace Fusion programme is focused primarily on applications and partners who provide complementary capabilities to those of the Endace portfolio, resulting in integrated tools that simplify NetOps/SecOps workload. The programme fosters the integration of tools within the network, security, and performance monitoring ecosystem to better monitor and maintain network health, and to reduce resolution time for network and security incidents.

“As part of our strategy to enable the network and application performance management (NPM and APM) industries, we have created the Endace Fusion Ecosystem programme to enable EndaceProbe INR customers to extract more value from their investments with their current management and monitoring tools,” said Mike Riley, senior vice president and general manager, Endace division, Emulex. “This programme is the first step in integrating the Emulex line of Endace products with complementary partner solutions, which is essential to providing customers with an overall solution that can pass data between them, or work on a single set of data, seamlessly. This enables a simplified workflow and quicker time to problem resolution for NetOps and SecOps specialists.”

The Endace Fusion Ecosystem programme is focused on select partners nominated by customers and brings together three different aspects of the network recording ecosystem:
• Fusion Connectors, are designed to facilitate streamlined workflows from a network, application or security event generated in a dashboard to the detailed network data related to the event. By deploying Fusion Connectors for their monitoring tools, organisations can drive down their time-to-resolution (TTR) and reduce the risk/impact of unplanned network downtime and security breaches. Fusion Connectors are enabled by the Endace RESTful API, which encourages developers and application vendors to develop Fusion Connectors for their applications.
• The Endace Application Dock allows customers to run open source, custom or third-party vendor tools in a virtual environment on EndaceProbe INRs.
• ?Fusion Alliances™ are collaborative industry relationships with complementary technology vendors that deliver solutions proven to help EndaceProbe INR customers extract more value from their investments.

“As the leader in application performance management, we understand the value of simple and efficient issue resolution of network and application issues, and keeping mission-critical networks running smoothly for our customers,” said Steve Tack, Vice President of Product Management for Compuware’s APM business unit. “Through the Endace Fusion Ecosystem programme, Compuware APM will leverage the Endace high-speed, lossless data acquisition architecture to automate the collection, retrieval and display of trace file-level data in the highest speed networking environments. We look forward to releasing a Compuware Fusion Connector later this year.”

“The network is the lifeblood of our customers’ business and any performance degradation can easily cost millions of dollars,” said Casey Murray, vice president global strategic alliances, SevOne. “We look forward to leveraging the Fusion Connector with our application aware performance monitoring platform to help drive down customers’ time-to-resolution (TTR) and reduce their risk of unplanned network downtime.”

“Endace Application Dock provides the best hardware hosting platform for our trade flow analytics application. Our recent win at a large financial customer was largely due to our ability to offer our application running in the Endace Application Dock on an EndaceProbe INR,” said Paul Spencer, chief operating officer of Velocimetrics.