1. SNMP - Allows any MIB variable to be tracked by SevOne, for data
analyzing and tracking performance indicators.
2. Flow-based technologies (NetFlow, SFlow, IPFIX) - Empowers users to
track application utilization & performance, investigate traffic
patterns, and drill down to individual conversations.
3. IP SLA (Cisco) - Using Cisco's IP SLA technology, SevOne can create
and graph synthetic, active measurements of end-to-end network
performance between any two points in the network providing a
validation of performance (latency, jitter, packet loss, throughput,
etc.) independent of devices that transmit network traffic. Many
other plugins are included such as synthetic HTTP and DNS transactions.
SevOne's flexible architecture allows for easy functionality expansion.
Other product differentiators include:
-- Single View - Real-time information and status of any network element.
-- Distributed Peer-to-Peer Architecture - Enables faster data
collection, enhanced scalability and improved performance.
-- Open APIs (SOAP) - Enables IT to quickly and easily import third-party
data into the SevOne appliance.
-- End-to-End Visibility - Distributed Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture
enables administrators to log into any SevOne appliance and retrieve data
from across the entire IT infrastructure.
-- By-the-Second Polling - "Micro polling" provides visibility down to 1
second which is critical for enterprises and telcos managing consumer-based
services.
-- Extensive Storage capacity - Each SevOne appliance stores 1 year of
detailed data (no roll-ups).
-- Rapid Customization - Feature customization occurs in days versus
months as is the case with most legacy frameworks.
The combination of the three technologies and unique differentiators yields
unprecedented visibility into the IT infrastructure. Jay Scott,
performance engineer at Alere, underscores this value, "With SevOne's Quick
Status View, administrators can jump on the system and if they're
questioning the health of a particular server, all they have to do is type
in the device to get CPU utilization, memory driver, traffic patterns and
other reports. From there it's pretty much point-and-click on what you
want to look at or drill down on. With legacy solutions, we would have to
run one report, and if that report didn't give us what we needed, we would
run several others until our desired information was found. With SevOne,
it's a couple of clicks and we have complete views."
Michael Phelan, SevOne's CEO, had this to say about the network performance
management challenges that enterprises and telecommunications companies
face today: "Unfortunately, many companies don't know where their network
and application performance problems are hiding and are severely limited in
their ability to measure and track system performance. Legacy performance
management systems fail to scale because of high cost and because their
distributed architecture is based around hierarchical models and not on
modern Peer-2-Peer and grid concepts. Thus they lack the scalability to
meet the demands of SOA-based applications where more real-time awareness
is needed."
Noted author and industry analyst Dr. Jim Metzler, Ashton, Metzler and
Associates, agrees with Phelan's assessment: "IT personnel typically do not
notice application degradation before the end-user and they do not have the
resources to manage all their applications 100 percent of the time -- the
impact is that IT loses credibility. These problems will be exacerbated
further as companies move toward virtualization, SOA and Web 2.0.
Enterprise and telco IT must take these problems seriously -- all that
really matters is the performance of applications."
SevOne will be unveiling their new appliance at Cisco Live, June 22-26, at
Booth #103 in Orlando, Fla.
Pricing and Availability
SevOne Performance Appliance is currently shipping with pricing that starts
under $25,000 U.S.
For additional insight into application performance management and its
associated challenges, please view SevOne's most recent white paper: The Business Case for
Performance Transparency
About SevOne
SevOne, Inc. is a network performance management company dedicated to
providing next-generation tools and services that enable enterprises to
keep increasingly complex networks and applications functioning at peak
performance levels. Based on a scalable and flexible modern software
architecture incorporating open web-services API, Web 2.0 GUI and
peer-to-peer clustering, the SevOne solution provides managers, architects
and engineers with the most accurate and timely data available to ensure
enterprise-wise network performance and reliability. For more information
please visit www.sevone.com or call 302-368-5650.
Contact Information: Contact: Michael Emerton BridgeView Marketing for SevOne (603) 766-3688 mike@bridgeviewmarketing.com
