NetQoS making strides in application flow mgmt.

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENNIS DROGSETH ON NETWORK/SYSTEMS
MANAGEMENT
09/12/05
Today's focus: NetQoS making strides in application flow mgmt.

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* Analysis of NetQoS's strategy
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Today's focus: NetQoS making strides in application flow mgmt.

By Dennis Drogseth

Vendors with interrelated, flow-based technology foundations are
moving beyond specific, narrow niches to provide more
full-fledged suites. For instance, many vendors are beginning to
combine packet and protocol analysis (targeted at performance
management) with pair-based flow analysis (more focused on
volume and consumption), with basic SNMP statistics for
component-oriented analysis.

NetQoS is one of these vendors. It supplemented application
response analysis in SuperAgent with NetFlow-based capacity and
optimization capabilities in Reporter Analyzer, and supplemented
its SNMP device monitoring with the acquisition of RedPoint in
April. NetQoS also introduced a chargeback capability that
leverages its NetFlow monitoring.

More recently, NetQoS introduced Performance Center, a Web-based
management portal that's offered as a free extension to its
products. Performance Center offers executive-level, role-based
views, and views supporting core network operations, where in
the past its products have been used primarily by network
engineers and planners. Performance Center also provides native
integration across the NetQoS portfolio, as well as potentially
with third-party software. The latter can integrate through Web
services-based calls for bi-directional GUI access.

In an overall enterprise management market that is growing
barely above 10% annually (which is still healthy growth),
NetQoS shot up well over 100% year to year, and did so with
established profitability and a company size approaching the
mid-tier range. (It was founded in March 1999.)

One reason for its success is its focus on pragmatic, scalable
and deployable products. NetQoS doesn't aim to do everything.
Its design point has always been on focused data gathering for
focused uses. On the other hand, NetQoS has innovated in areas
where context and efficiency count, such as using the
type-of-service bit and other capabilities for application
identification in ReporterAnalyzer, and application-to-network
performance triage in SuperAgent. Most customers and users,
needless to say, like this combination of pragmatism and
innovation.

NetQoS should do well as it grows its feature set to support a
more complex matrix of roles and monitoring choices. NetQoS
still has a way to go in capturing true executive requirements,
but it gets high marks for being responsive to customers, which
should serve it well in charting its next steps. It's certainly
worth considering NetQoS if you're interested in
application-to-network performance and optimization issues and
want real value without having to boil the ocean.

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To contact: Dennis Drogseth

Dennis Drogseth is a vice president with Enterprise Management
Associates <http://www.enterprisemanagement.com/>, a leading
analyst, market research and IT consulting firm based in
Boulder, Colorado, focusing exclusively on all aspects of
enterprise management. Dennis has extensive experience in
service level management and network management platforms and
products. He is actively researching trends in management
software and changing IT roles internationally. His 22-plus
years of experience in high-tech includes positions at IBM and
Cabletron. He is widely quoted in the press and is a speaker at
many industry events. He can be reached via e-mail
<mailto:drogseth@enterprisemanagement.com>.
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This newsletter is sponsored by ProCurve Networking by HP
Network World Executive Guide: The Evolution of Management
Technologies

With applications and infrastructures growing more sophisticated
and demanding, network and systems management technologies are
more critical than ever. Elevating their focus from bits and
bytes, these networked systems are being called on to close the
gap between IT and business services. Read about the future of
management, including BSM and emerging automation tools. Learn
about 'hot spots' and 'best products' in network management.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=114134
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