SolarWinds opens network engineers’ eyes to App-centric view of the world

Is it the network or the application? SolarWinds is helping network engineers answer this business-critical question with its latest release of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM). The company’s flagship and award-winning network performance monitoring solution has added new, enterprise-class deep packet inspection (DPI) and analysis technology to troubleshoot network performance on application latency. Finally, network engineers at any size organisation can afford to quickly and easily identify network and application response time issues for improved end-user quality of experience and continuity of business operations.

· IT organisations rely on a complex environment of business-critical applications to increase productivity, efficiency, and to ultimately drive revenue.
· Many popular modern applications like Skype®, YouTube® and Microsoft® Lync® are not identifiable on a network through the standard flow-based technologies alone, thereby sending network engineers to chase individual applications to troubleshoot performance.
· Previously, DPI and analysis technology has not been readily available to a vast number of IT organisations due to the complexity and cost of current offerings. SolarWinds now offers surprisingly affordable network performance monitoring plus DPI and analysis for a fraction of the traditional enterprise cost, starting at £1765.
· According to Gartner, one of the leading information technology research and advisory companies, “at an estimated $1 billion, the Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD) market is a fast-growing segment of the larger network management space ($1.8 billion in 2012), and overlaps slightly with aspects of the application performance monitoring (APM) space ($2 billion in 2012).”

What’s New in SolarWinds NPM 11.0
With the addition of the new out-of-the-box DPI and analysis sensors, SolarWinds NPM provides a comprehensive view of network fault, performance, availability, traffic, and latency allowing network engineers to more effectively IDENTIFY, PRIORITISE AND RESOLVE network issues before they impact application performance, end-users and the business by:
· Continuously monitoring packets across the wire
· Inspecting, identifying and classifying application traffic for over 1,200 applications such as Skype, YouTube and Microsoft Lync
· Displaying network and application response time in easy-view charts and graphs
· Complementing the power of flow-based technologies like NetFlow, sFlow® and J-Flow with DPI technology

In addition to providing insight into how the network impacts application performance, SolarWinds offers a host of integrated products to help IT Pros connect the dots between the full application stack – the connections between the application and all of software, middleware, and extended infrastructure that the application requires for performance, including:
· SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor – agentless application and server monitoring
· SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager – virtualisation management for Hybrid IT
· SolarWinds Storage Manager – heterogeneous storage performance and capacity management