FEATURE: NETWORK MONITORING
Sridhar Ivengar says
that using streaming
applications to watch
sports matches
can impact your
bandwidth
to understand what the impact is. You can,
therefore, be proactive about this so the IT
administrator knows the problem before the
customer logs in and uses these services.
“In the cricket-loving parts of the world,
when there is a match, people follow it, just
like a football match, by using streaming
applications. That has an impact on your
bandwidth and the applications slow down
because people are using them for their
personal need.
“One of our customers used our product to
identify the specific IP address of the user
who was running these applications and
they were able to quarantine them or put it
on a low priority track so it did not impact
the corporate network. This is an example of
how a customer used our product to ensure
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IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT NETWORK
PERFORMANCE, IT’S ABOUT ALL
THE COMPONENTS OF THE ENTIRE
BUSINESS, LIKE THE SERVERS,
APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES.
their networks did not slow down. When it
comes to performance optimisation, one
thing that everybody needs is tools, like
performance monitoring tools or bandwidth
monitoring tools. “If you are a business that is running
its applications on a public cloud
infrastructure, like Amazon or Microsoft, we
have tools that can monitor performance of
these applications.
“It’s not just about network performance,
it’s about all the components of the entire
business, like the servers, applications and
devices. And in today’s world, a lot of people
are running their applications on the cloud
so monitoring extends to that as well. “The key is to have all these different tools in
place that gives you visibility.
“It’s about the customer experience and
if the application can react quickly and is
always available to provide the service.” n
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