Stories about: Fluke Networks

You might believe, and with some real justification, that the term "end to end" is only used by vendors who custom-fit the definition to the scope of their particular product.

Network performance-management vendor Fluke Networks this week expanded its product portfolio when it acquired for an undisclosed sum the intellectual property of VoIP management player Viola Networks.

Enterprise Management Associates is back again after a year of absence, this time on a monthly basis. We've really missed your dialog and comments, and hopefully we've been missed as well. As before, this column will focus on network management trends as they fit into the bigger IT management landscape - focusing from time to time on application performance, or SLM versus BSM, or new approaches to asset management, or trends like CMDB adoption as they may affect the NOC.

At SunTrust, a major bank with US$182 billion in assets, network executives had the blues. Although mergers and acquisitions had boosted the bank's branch and ATM presence across the Southeast, they had created a network-management morass.

Fluke Networks this week unveiled the fruit of two acquisitions and quite a bit of integration work when it shared details around its unified performance management software, which the vendor says will help customers better manage application performance while tapping knowledge of the underlying network.

Network General this week announced three new products the company says will help network managers better track NetFlow data, provide insight into virtual environments and monitor application performance across distributed networks down to the user device.

Network analysis company Fluke Networks has introduced a new version of its OptiView Analyzer.

Cisco Systems is clearing the air around enterprise wireless LANs with a partner that specializes in radio spectrum analysis.

Like veteran poker players, network executives have long depended on a mix of skill, instincts and just plain luck to predict application performance. With business success hanging in the balance, however, today's stakes are too high for a gamble on application optimization.

Network execs may need up to three layers of tools sets to ensure great application performance.

A new network processor chip could cut the cost of 10Gig Ethernet to as little as US$400 a port, according to semiconductor company Bay Microsystems.