The modern applications delivery environment is distributed and dependent on data centers and network connectivity. Therefore, users are increasingly dependent on consistent network performance for day-to-day activities. Since the volume and speed of the traffic are dramatically increasing, they pose bigger operational challenges to managing performance, reliability, and user expectations of consistent quality of experience.
Unfortunately, the workflow and tools used by the operations teams were not designed for the scale, speed, and complexity of the modern environment. The operations teams lack real-time situational awareness and effective visibility into applications behavior and bottlenecks. Coarse metrics of average link utilization which are collected by SNMP obscure critical application miss behaviors, intermittencies and spikes. Also, troubleshooting by aggregating traffic and recording a large number of packets does not scale to the modern distributed environments where the traffic volume and speed are increasing exponentially. With lack of real-time visibility, today’s common workflow is reactive and addresses issues only after they have negatively impacted the end-users.
In this webinar, our panel will address these questions:
- How would you address the operations efficiency gap where complexity, speed, and volume of traffic are increasing exponentially?
- What is needed to find the “needle in the network haystack”?
- What are the economic benefits of proactive real-time monitoring?
- What pitfalls should a business avoid when implementing a network monitoring solution?
Speakers include:
- Ashar Baig, Research Director, Gigaom Research
- Greg Ferro, Independent Analyst/Writer, Contract Network Engineer/Architect
- Lee Doyle, Principal Analyst, Doyle Research
- Rony Kay, CEO, cPacket Networks
Register here to join Gigaom Research and our sponsor cPacket for “Real-Time Pervasive Network Intelligence for Today’s Cloudy Network Infrastructure” a free analyst webinar on Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 10 a.m. PT.

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