SolarWinds Improves Network Visibility and Performance with Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
SolarWinds, a leader in network management software, today announced Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NetFlow Traffic Analyzer), a new module in the Orion Network Management Platform (Orion). SolarWinds will be previewing the new module on their website at http://www.solarwinds.net starting today.
Network engineers continually face the substantial challenge of maintaining performance and availability of enterprise-class networks without sufficient knowledge of which users and which applications are consuming network bandwidth and without adequate visibility into anomalous patterns of network traffic that indicate malicious activities. Without a holistic view of network bandwidth usage, network engineers cannot quickly diagnose or prevent network problems or properly match network capacity to business needs.
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NetFlow Traffic Analyzer uniquely addresses the challenge by providing rich analysis and visibility into Cisco NetFlow data. The many-layered, information views combine the best top-down information from Cisco NetFlow data with the detailed, bottom-up data of Orion’s Network Performance Monitor. A unified console provides network engineers with point-and-click access to comprehensive charts and detailed reports that deliver a clear portrait of the network traffic, thereby increasing their ability to enhance the performance, availability and security of the network.
“With fewer resources available to manage the growing complexity of modern day networks, tools that can easily integrate network traffic analysis with availability and configuration information should find a welcome audience among many IT buyers,” said Dennis Drogseth, vice president, Enterprise Management Associates. “The NetFlow analysis product combined with Orion Network Performance Monitor from SolarWinds provides network engineers with just this type of information in a package that’s easily deployed and actually more affordable than just the maintenance agreements of some of the competition.”
Customers Ready for NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
Customers such as Tucson Medical Center, one of the 300 largest hospitals in the country and the largest in Southern Arizona, and Results Technology, a provider of IT infrastructure solutions to businesses, have seen tremendous value from Orion and look forward to integrating the fault tolerance data with the NetFlow capabilities for a holistic view of their network.
“We have been using the Orion platform from SolarWinds for more than three years and have greatly benefited from having the real-time capability to know how much bandwidth is being used within our organization. However, we have been unable to drill down and determine the use of the bandwidth and what is being affected,” said James Kemery, senior network engineer, Information Systems at Tucson Medical Center. “With the addition of NetFlow monitoring and reporting capabilities, we will be able to diagnose, report, and alert in real time on network problems greatly reducing our mean-time-to repair and providing the capability to predict future bottlenecks.”
“We have used Orion from SolarWinds for more than two years now and have been extremely pleased with the performance and professionalism of the product. We at Results Technology, along with our customers that we monitor with Orion have wanted a built-in system that would break down the dataflows on our WAN links to show us a more detailed output of what was going on,” said John Eberle, senior systems engineer at Results Technology. “SolarWinds has once again stepped up to the plate to deliver us the NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, which brings the visibility that we need.”
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides network engineers with vital information to more quickly detect, diagnose, predict and resolve network slowdowns and outages. Key capabilities include:
* Top-to-bottom Traffic Analysis — Enables network engineers to quickly examine Cisco NetFlow traffic data and drill down into the data to determine traffic by user, application, department, conversation, interface and protocol.
* Optimized Storage Engine — Intelligently summarizes large amounts of raw NetFlow data, allowing users quick access to historical data while reducing storage costs.
* Enterprise-ready Management Infrastructure — Scales to monitor interfaces with multi-gigabit throughput, enabling long-term storage of NetFlow data and a stable, reliable tool that requires little care and maintenance.
* Integration with Orion’s Network Performance Monitor — Enables network engineers to drill down from broad views of traffic patterns to detailed views of device performance.
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