Global IT Solutions Provider Bases New Network Visibility Offering on NetQoS Performance Center Product Portfolio
LONDON & AUSTIN, Texas – Feb. 16, 2008 –
NetQoS® Inc. technology has been chosen as the foundation of a new network visibility service offered by Savvis, Inc. (Nasdaq: SVVS), a global leader in outsourced managed computing and network infrastructure for IT applications. The service offering will provide Savvis Global Network Solutions customers with unprecedented insight into traffic composition, network utilisation, and application performance assurance on Savvis’ MPLS-enabled Application Transport Services.
“In today’s difficult economic conditions, our enterprise customers are increasingly being driven to focus on their core business activities,” said Dennis Brouwer, Savvis Vice President of Global Network Solutions. “As a result, many of the companies we work with are attempting to reconcile the apparent conflict between outsourcing critical infrastructure, while retaining the application visibility and control they’ve come to expect over the years. We’ve worked very closely with NetQoS to design a solution that meets the customer demand for visibility into performance of critical applications and infrastructure usage, and enables a broader range of enterprise and commercial companies to utilise our solutions and optimise their business models through targeted outsourcing.”
Savvis selected the network traffic analysis and infrastructure performance monitoring modules of the NetQoS Performance Center product suite to build the Savvis Application Transport Service (ATS) Performance Analyst offering. The embedded NetQoS technologies will help Savvis Global Network Solutions customers understand the levels of service they are receiving, including how the network infrastructure contributes to application performance.
NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer™ will show Savvis customers the composition of traffic across the network, including what applications are being used, who is using them, and how much bandwidth is being consumed on each link. Monitoring application flows is important in an
MPLS environment to achieve continuous visibility of bandwidth usage, as MPLS injects new traffic paths between edge sites.
NetQoS NetVoyant® will provide Savvis customers with reports detailing performance metrics such as jitter, loss, and latency for applications that are sensitive to delay across the infrastructure. For example, NetVoyant can run synthetic VoIP or video tests between any two devices, such as edge routers at remote sites. Insight into these types of metrics is critical because of the alterations MPLS makes on the network, including changes in routing paths and the size of network links.
“Savvis MPLS-enabled Application Transport Services are foundational to every solution we take to market,” continued Brouwer. “With that in mind, we chose the NetQoS products to form the basis of our new network visibility service because they scale to our global infrastructure and allow us to provide the visibility into performance information that customers are demanding, without having to add software or hardware at the customer sites. This service will enable our customers to stream-line their IT operations while closely monitoring and ensuring application performance. ”
“Savvis is ahead of its competition by offering a differentiated set of infrastructure performance management services that help global customers gain visibility and control over exactly what is happening on their networks,” said Mike Magri, Client Delivery Executive for NetQoS. “The NetQoS non-intrusive approach to traffic analysis and performance monitoring provides Savvis with an efficient and cost-effective way to deploy this service and help customers accurately measure the quality and quantity of application delivery across their infrastructure.”
