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NetScout, Evident Deliver Solutions For Dist. Infrastructures
NetScout Systems, a provider of enterprise-wide performance management
solutions, and Evident Software Inc, a provider of IT cost analysis solutions,
announced a new agreement to jointly deliver IT demand and cost analysis
solutions for large, distributed IT infrastructures. The combined solution
will provide large enterprises scalable, in-depth usage and cost analysis for
strategic outsourcing, utility computing and application services delivery
programs.
Large global organizations in public and private sectors continue to require
increased management control and accountability of IT utilization, cost and
performance. By transitioning from fixed, overprovisioned resources to a
demand-based model, enterprises can often achieve a lower, variable-cost
infrastructure. A necessary precursor to attaining such variable-cost
infrastructures is baselining IT demand and cost analysis. Detailed usage
visibility and knowledge of infrastructure capacity, cost and performance
provides CIOs and IT managers actionable intelligence for initial audits,
reducing the cost of services via optimization and demand management as well
as ongoing service level management.
Under the new agreement, NetScout and Evident have integrated their primary
product lines to deliver a jointly-certified solution based upon sharing of
NetScout's multi-purpose nGenius Probes, which act as common collectors and
consolidators of live network and application activity and usage data. This
data is used for performance management purposes and forwarded in parallel to
Evident's Enterprise Edition for detailed, business- oriented IT cost
analysis. As part of the agreement, Evident has also become a member of
NetScout's nGenius Alliance Program.
The combined NetScout and Evident solution is implemented at several United
States-based and multinational customer organizations. Among them, a worldwide
financial institution is using the solution as part of its strategic
outsourcing initiative centered on IT cost control. Another customer is Sony
Electronics' Network Technology Group that uses the solution internally to
collect and account for network usage by its global business units.
"As IS organizations embark on higher levels of IT management process maturity
and serious consideration of real-time infrastructure models, they require a
detailed understanding of the quality of the IT services they are providing
and the cost of delivering those IT services to end-users and business unit
customers," said Debra Curtis, research vice president of Gartner Inc. "Along
those lines, there is clear value in choosing management products that
simplify the process of gathering and presenting IT service quality and cost
data as a means to optimize infrastructure investments."
"Most all of our large institutional customers are actively initiating ways to
balance demand, cost and performance goals," said Bruce Sweet, vice president
of business development for NetScout Systems. "NetScout provides the live data
to address enterprise-wide network and application performance management, but
we look to partners such as Evident to derive and deliver additional value by
leveraging the consolidated activity and usage information made possible via
our patent-pending CDM Technology."
"The combination of NetScout and Evident technologies provides an unmatched
solution for our customers," said Rob Mignalia, Evident's vice president of
business development. "By focusing on our customers' business demands at a
very granular level, we provide the tools and the know-how to help customers
streamline IT investment, reduce overprovisioning and evaluate strategic
outsourcing agreements. That's knowledge no company should be without."
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