Brocade Network Monitoring Service Improves Data Availability and Efficiency.Summary: BrocadeA (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BRCD) announced today the next-generation Brocade Network Monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. Service (NMS See NetWare Management System. ), which provides organizations with an end-to-end remote monitoring (protocol) remote monitoring - (RMON) A network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas SNMP gathers network data from a single type of Management Information Base (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a , alerting, and reporting service for their data center fabrics. Brocade NMS now provides 24Eu7 expert end-to-end monitoring about the health and status of data center fabrics to help maximize network efficiency, availability, and uptime. Moreover, Brocade NMS provides organizations with valuable information and rules-based business intelligence to maximize application availability and optimize data center resources. Brocade Network Monitoring Service Improves Data Availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. and Efficiency Provides Customers a Secure, Highly Reliable Remote Monitoring, Alerting, and Reporting Service for Their Data Center Fabrics--Optimizing Resources and Enabling Infrastructure Growth without Hiring BrocadeA (NASDAQ: BRCD) announced today the next-generation Brocade Network Monitoring Service (NMS), which provides organizations with an end-to-end remote monitoring, alerting, and reporting service for their data center fabrics. Brocade NMS now provides 24Eu7 expert end-to-end monitoring about the health and status of data center fabrics to help maximize network efficiency, availability, and uptime. Moreover, Brocade NMS provides organizations with valuable information and rules-based business intelligence to maximize application availability and optimize data center resources. Through this service, IT organizations can better manage growing and increasingly complex data center infrastructures with their current staff. "Managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality are one of the fastest-growing segments of the storage services market," said Gartner Storage Services Principal Analyst Adam Couture. "Gartner anticipates that in a weakened economy this should accelerate as IT departments are asked to do more with less and may have headcounts frozen or even reduced." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner's 2008 CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. survey, business intelligence is a top technology priority. Brocade NMS helps fulfill that need by providing deeper business intelligence, enabling organizations to make faster and more-informed decisions. Brocade NMS does this by integrating expertise from knowledgeable storage and networking professionals with a comprehensive monitoring approach, advanced event management, and predictive diagnostic techniques. This integration can help reduce overall problem resolution time by almost one hour per event, resulting in decreased downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. costs and increased productivity to subscribers. In addition to 24Eu7 monitoring, Brocade NMS collects and analyzes a wide variety of performance, utilization, and throughput data. Real-time alerts warn administrators of networking issues, bottlenecks, or potential system outages, thereby enabling proactive action to minimize or avoid an impact to application performance and availability. Real-time and historical data and flexible reports are generated automatically and are available via a secure Web portal See portal. . As a result, organizations can analyze historical trends, optimize resource utilization and cost-effectively plan future capacity. New features of Brocade NMS include: A[cedilla ce·dil·la n. A mark ( ¸ ) placed beneath the letter c, as in the spelling of the French word garçon, to indicate that the letter is to be pronounced (s). ] Expanded monitoring and reporting from extension devices into the data center across all Brocade products and many third-party products, creating an end-to-end view of the data center fabric. A[cedilla] A flexible new architecture that enables policy-based monitoring, event correlation Event Correlation is the processes involved with reducing a large number of incident alerts to a much smaller, more manageable number within automated monitoring and incident/problem management in a Support Management System. , and "yellow light" alerts to increase business intelligence and enable a more proactive approach. A[cedilla] An infrastructure that provides faster, more reliable access, as well as enhanced security. An enhanced reporting platform provides real-time and historical performance information along with flexible, customizable reports and data views to meet specific requirements. A[cedilla] More precise fault determination across the data center fabric for faster resolution and increased ability to meet application SLAs. "The newly enhanced Brocade NMS helps customers get the most value from their data center network investments and ensures that under-staffed IT resources can focus on the business," said Hugues Meyrath, Vice President and General Manager of Brocade Global Services. "Through constant monitoring and reporting, Brocade NMS helps ensure that our customers' data center networks are running optimally and that applications and data are readily available to users." For more information visit www.brocade.com/nms. 2008 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com) 2008 Al Bawaba (Albawaba.com) Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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