Network Emulation is an important technique that service providers, enterprises, and network equipment manufacturers should employ for predeployment testing in a lab environment. By applying proven scientific methodologies, businesses can stand to save a great deal of money and time versus deploying blindly and reacting as problems arise.
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Monitoring Is Critical
As security and IT professionals, network and application monitoring has become increasingly important for a variety of reasons, including:
• New Data Security and Lawful Intercept compliance requirements that mandate full monitoring coverage, rather than sampling, the most common monitoring approach before these regulations emerged
• Service-Level Agreements that require a minimum level of performance and availability on important
services and applications
• New high-bandwidth applications such as IPTV and VoIP that must not only be monitored, but must also be delivered to the user with the packets in the correct sequence
• Increased dependence on electronics communications mediums and digital business transactions, requiring minimized downtime to support revenue and other financial goals
• Desire to shorten troubleshooting and disaster recovery activities without interrupting business processes or making customers aware that a problem happened in the first place
• Need to increase the network operations team’s productivity and to pre-empt upgrade and service needs before problems emerge
Clearly, these issues are relevant to both technical and business stakeholders, so monitoring has become a core requirement for network operations and security purposes.
Monitoring Optimization ROI, Part I
NOTE: The Network View is offering a series of ROI-related posts focused on the question: “Why optimize my network and/or security monitoring?” This is the first installment, which will review the meaning of ROI briefly and set up the second entry.
Monitoring Resources: ts/sci security
NOTE: The Network View is offering a series of reviews on network visibility-related resources and blogs available online. Let’s keep with the theme of Security this week. Today we are profiling a resource that we only identified in the last two weeks, and it looks like a very useful one at that: ts/sci security.
Getting More from your Network and Application Monitoring Tools in Tight Budgetary Times
We have released a new podcast on how to squeeze maximum value from your existing monitoring tools. With budgets being slashed for all of us in 2009, this is a topic you don’t want to miss.
Download Podcast now: “Economy Got You Down?”
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