NWC News Network, Aug 22 2007, 1500 hrs
The Yankee Group has published a research report about the end-user visibility fed by Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) which misses out in current network management tools.
According to the research, “the dynamic nature of today’s enterprise networks demands greater visibility into behavior to optimize the business; NBA provides this needed visibility of the entire enterprise network. NBA has the ability to manage and monitor meaningful change and thus help in problem resolution; it enables effective management of infrastructure change while maintaining balance between performance and security.”
George Hamilton, director of Yankee Group’s Enabling Technologies Enterprise Group, and research author said, “Network operations groups have already begun incorporating behavioral analysis so they can add behavioral context to their existing management systems. NBA tools can display network activity rolled back in time just prior to a performance event to accelerate root-cause analysis and problem resolution. Network administrators still rely on existing network and systems management tools to isolate and apply fixes, but this capability ensures NBA’s place in network operations and is sure to intensify competition with other network performance management tools.”
The report also explains the value NBA systems can bring to WAN optimization initiatives. An NBA system provides data about the object traversing the WAN and also improves troubleshooting and capacity planning, thus ensuring superior quality of service to end-users.
Paul Brady, CEO, Mazu Networks, provider of NBA systems said, “Our customers have long understood the limitations of existing network operations and security solutions, and have counted on Mazu to gain the visibility needed to improve network and application performance in addition to better securing their infrastructures. This research from Yankee speaks of the success our customers have already experienced with Mazu and will help educate other enterprises about the network operations and security benefits they can gain from using NBA.”
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