Evident Software baselines usage with NetFlow

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06/30/05
Today's focus: Evident Software baselines usage with NetFlow

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Today's focus: Evident Software baselines usage with NetFlow

By Denise Dubie

Evident Software last week announced a service at Cisco's
Networkers 2005 conference in Las Vegas that takes advantage of
the NetFlow information on Cisco gear.

Evident's representatives say the company is making its IT usage
and accounting software available as a service to customers
looking to get a better handle on application usage for
cost-cutting measures. Tapping NetFlow, Evident's professional
services group can help IT managers at large enterprise
companies get granular information on the assets they know they
have and the assets they may not be entirely aware of - as well
as who's using them.

"Other tools use NetFlow to track performance and availability
information," says Helen Donnelly, Evident's vice president of
marketing. "Evident's Usage Baseline service uses NetFlow to
help IT managers get a report on what assets are being used, how
and by whom."

NetFlow is a part of Cisco's IOS software that shows how
specific applications are being used and how that usage affects
the network. Vendors such as NetQoS, NetScout and AdventNet use
NetFlow to help improve performance on enterprise nets.

Donnelly says Evident can help large companies begin an IT
governance initiative. For example, IBM's office of the CIO
estimates it will save 6% of its global network costs with the
IT intelligence provided by Evident. And Fidelity Investments
has also saved over $90 million since implementing Evident,
according to the company.

The Usage Baseline requires customers to install Evident's
software in their data centers while the professional services
group does its work. The software resides on Microsoft Windows
or Sun Solaris servers and collects application flows, or
conversation data, from a variety of network probes, devices,
servers and end users. Evident uses a distributed model and
recommends users install its software on servers across networks
and in data centers. A centralized server collects the data from
distributed servers and acts as an administration console for IT
managers.

The Usage Baseline is available immediately for $150,000, to
assess a single data center in a period of four to eight weeks.

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Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers network and systems management
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