SolarWinds Improves Network Visibility and Performance with Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.New Orion Module Provides Unique Traffic Analysis Capabilities AUSTIN, Texas -- SolarWinds, a leader in network management software, today announced Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer See network 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 www.solarwinds.net starting today. Network engineers continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. 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 a·nom·a·lous adj. 1. Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule. 2. Equivocal, as in classification or nature. patterns of network traffic that indicate malicious Involving malice; characterized by wicked or mischievous motives or intentions. An act done maliciously is one that is wrongful and performed willfully or intentionally, and without legal justification. DESERTION, MALICIOUS. activities. Without a holistic Holistic A practice of medicine that focuses on the whole patient, and addresses the social, emotional, and spiritual needs of a patient as well as their physical treatment. Mentioned in: Aromatherapy, Stress Reduction, Traditional Chinese Medicine view of network bandwidth usage, network engineers cannot quickly diagnose diagnose /di·ag·nose/ (di´ag-nos) to identify or recognize a disease. di·ag·nose v. 1. To distinguish or identify a disease by diagnosis. 2. or prevent network problems or properly match network capacity to business needs. 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 Southern Arizona is a region of the United States. It is the southernmost portion of the 48th state, Arizona. Southern Arizona's boundaries are not well defined, but certainly include all of present-day Cochise County, Pima County, Graham County, and Santa Cruz County. , 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 See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. 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 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. 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 professionalism the upholding by individuals of the principles, laws, ethics and conventions of their profession. 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 Co 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 Co Intelligently summarizes large amounts of raw NetFlow data, allowing users quick access to historical data while reducing storage costs. * Enterprise-ready Management Infrastructure Co Scales to monitor interfaces with multi-gigabit throughput The speed with which a computer processes data. It is a combination of internal processing speed, peripheral speeds (I/O) and the efficiency of the operating system and other system software all working together. 1. , 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 Co Enables network engineers to drill down from broad views of traffic patterns to detailed views of device performance. Availability and Pricing Orion Netflow Traffic Analyzer is available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. at www.solarwinds.net December 15, 2006. Pricing starts at $875 for 10 interfaces. For more information please visit www.solarwinds.net or contact the SolarWinds sales department at 866-530-8100. About Orion Network Performance Monitor Orion is a comprehensive Web-enabled fault, bandwidth and performance management application that allows users to view the real-time statistics and availability of their network from any Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Orion monitors, collects and analyzes data from routers, switches, servers and any other SNMP-enabled devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their network's health. In addition, the Orion Network Management Modules allow users to extend Orion's powerful monitoring and management capabilities to wireless devices and applications. Orion Network Performance Monitor modules include: Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Orion Wireless Network Monitor, Orion Application Monitor and Orion Hot Standby A hardware device that is connected to the computer or computer complex and remains powered on. It is ready to take over immediately if the primary unit fails. A hot standby may refer to a complete computer system; for example, a standby server, or a component in a computer such as a Engine. About SolarWinds SolarWinds is a leading provider of Windows-based network management, 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. and network discovery software. More than 40,000 customers spanning the military, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen SolarWinds to reduce network downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. , manage network compliance and change and improve staff efficiency. SolarWinds has developed and brought to market award-winning solutions that address the needs of network engineers from performance management to fault monitoring to configuration management. For more information, please visit http://www.SolarWinds.Net. SolarWinds, SolarWinds.Net and Orion are registered trademarks of SolarWinds.Net. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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