Find out fast who/what is consuming network bandwidth with NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.
No doubt you’ve sent half a dozen e-mails, pleading with employees to stop using the corporate network for bandwidth-hogging applications like streaming music and playing World of Warcraft, but no one seems to care. You’ve been called out by upper management due to poor network performance more times than you’ve thought about attending Comic-Con. Not to worry, we have an answer.

Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer enables you to capture flow data from continuous streams of network traffic and convert those raw numbers into easy-to-interpret charts and tables that quantify exactly how the corporate network is being used, by whom and for what purpose – enabling you to shut down the bandwidth hogs.

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Highlights:

• Monitors network traffic by capturing flow data from network devices, including Cisco® NetFlow v5 or v9, Juniper® J-Flow, and sFlow®
• Quickly and easily identifies which users, applications, and protocols are consuming the most network bandwidth
• Accelerates pinpointing the cause of network over-utilization and highlights the IP addresses of the top talkers on the network
• Provides historical trends for WAN and LAN bandwidth usage to determine whether additional bandwidth needs to be purchased
• Generates network traffic reports with just a few clicks
• Enables you to optimize network resources to make the most of your bandwidth
• Monitors Quality of Service (QoS) metrics to verify that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are being met
• Isolates current or historic suspicious traffic

***Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is a powerful module of Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM). In order to deploy the 30-day trial of Network Traffic Analyzer, you will also need to install Orion NPM which is included in this download.

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Are you looking for a comprehensive solution that addresses insufficient or congested bandwidth, impaired application performance, slow remote backup and replication or obstacles to IT consolidation?
This paper will explain how Riverbed, whose product line, the Steelhead family of appliances, optimizes TCP/IP traffic, addresses these issues with a single Wide-area Data Services (WDS) solution, so that users can enjoy LAN-like access to important data and applications regardless of their location. Download this paper today!

Prepared by IDC; Sponsored by Riverbed Technology

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Learn the drivers for considering open source and the IT situations where open source makes sense.
IT teams have long recognized that an enterprise-class IT management system is absolutely essential, especially given the mission-critical nature of most corporate IT networks. Yet for many years, IT executives resigned themselves to a frustrating reality: In order to fulfill their need for robust IT monitoring and management functionality, they had no alternative but to use a proprietary solution—even though these commercial platforms (such as HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli) have been widely criticized as being expensive, overly complex, and difficult to deploy and manage.

Now companies like Cingular Wireless, TimeWarner Cable, Siemens, and TicketMaster have embraced and rely on open source IT management products. Successful adoption by high profile firms such as these provides concrete evidence that IT teams now have a viable and market-tested open source alternative to closed commercial systems.

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Learn how to save money and improve productivity with a new intranet solution.
When it opened in 2002, St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana was the first freestanding hospital in Indianapolis to provide advanced treatment of cardiovascular disease. The facility relied on an HTML-based intranet to disseminate announcements, links and other information to its 470 employees and 200 contract workers. Information on that system was difficult to find.

The hospital deployed Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 to launch a new intranet.

The benefits of this new intranet included:

• Organization of diverse information
• Improved productivity
• Enhanced employee relations
• Increased security
• Streamlined content management

In a hospital survey, 87% of St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana team members and contractors who completed the survey responded favorably to the new intranet solution.

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SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (Orion NPM) is an award-winning, Web-based network performance monitoring solution trusted by thousands of network engineers worldwide. It is a cost-effective, easy to use and scalable solution that addresses the day-to-day problems faced by network professionals in the enterprise.
Orion NPM provides real-time visibility into the health of network devices, servers, and applications for large companies and businesses, and ensures you have the information needed to keep your systems running at peak performance.

Orion NPM capabilities include:

• Monitoring and analyzing real-time, in-depth network performance metrics for routers, switches, servers, and any other SNMP-enabled devices
• Providing a highly intuitive, customizable web interface that supports multiple views by user and department, as well as map views of your global network
• Enabling advanced alerting for correlated events, sustained conditions, and complex combinations of device states
• Scaling to accommodate growth and management needs with a hot standby engine, multiple polling engines, and additional web servers
• Quick installation (less than an hour) and immediate data collection to increase network productivity!

In addition, Orion NPM modules can easily extend monitoring capabilities to NetFlow traffic analysis and monitoring of VoIP performance, wireless devices, applications and servers.

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Discover practical techniques for application monitoring and a method for value engineering the overall design.
After studying dozens of designs for application monitoring, it has been found that the optimal solution is often achieved through simple synthetic transaction monitors, combined with multi-measure containers for simple and less critical applications. The cost effectiveness of this solution is leveraged substantially when the same tools are used for monitoring release testing, and load testing of n-tier applications. The complex white box testing techniques are useful primarily for diagnostics.

Applying these principles to application monitoring, coupled with a well-managed project, can achieve significant business benefits. These include:

• higher application availability
• employee productivity
• lower capital and operating costs

Whether using expensive monitoring software or open source tools, the value of the monitoring system derives from the effectiveness of its design and implementation plan, and the business processes that use its output - not the features of the software.

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Learn how large organization CIOs should prepare for the inevitable migration of Access Management from applications to the network.
How do CIOs make sure that credentialed users can access the IT resources they need while hackers and criminals are locked out? In this white paper, Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group discusses why this is far from straightforward. In most companies, access controls are made up of a complex error-prone patchwork of network, system, and application security gates like firewalls, Access Controls (ACLs), network directories, and application-specific custom coding. Aside from being an ugly disconnected mess, do these controls really serve the business and security needs of large organizations?

Prepared by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.; Sponsored by Rohati.

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Learn how to receive a free copy of Trapeze Networks’ Network Management & Guest Access Software.
For a limited time, Trapeze Networks is offering a FREE base license of the award-winning RingMaster management suite AND SmartPass guest access software. Find out how!

SmartPass®
Guest access and security software highlights:

• Easy Guest Access provisioning
• Lets you lock down bandwidth abusers
• Restricts user access based on location
• Prevents access based on time and date
• Comprehensive reports on activity and roaming

RingMaster™
Enterprise network management software highlights:

• Visualization of network on your floorplans
• Supports indoor and outdoor wireless
• Easy and error-free offline configuration
• Powerful capacity planning wizards
• Real-time reporting and monitoring
• Extensive set of security-related alarms
• 30 day history and granular reporting
• Only 11n ready network management

Trapeze Smart Mobile delivers NonStop Wireless for the Always-On Enterprise.

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This guide describes the need for vulnerability management.
It introduces the sources of vulnerabilities and their related fallout, then relates why the nature of modern threats to the network requires automated technology to counter sophisticated exploits. The guide defines elements of vulnerability management and how it controls the detection and remediation process. As an important byproduct, vulnerability management can also document compliance with security provisions mandated by legislation, industry and business policy.

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