Application Performance Monitoring, Analysis and Troubleshooting

"This application is ever so slow!"     

Where's the problem?      What's causing it?   How do we fix it"

Traffic levels?     Network?    Server?    Database?    Application?    Virtualisation?

Whatever advances are made in networking and server techniques the traditional cry of "it's gone slow" continues from the actual end-users of networked applications. Poor application performance is extremely costly in terms of lost business, plus the time and expense of troubleshooting and rectifying problems when they do arise.

Phoenix Datacom supplies outstanding products that reduce your costs by allowing you to monitor and alert on performance, and then rapidly identify and troubleshoot problems with pinpoint accuracy. Where's the problem? What's causing it? How do we fix it?

Overview

No two organisations have the same issues or management infrastructure - according to particular needs, one or more of the following well-established products will provide a solution.

	Xangati provides real-time visibility of application traffic flows within both physical and virtualised environments - implemented as a high performance appliance on physical networks and an .OVF virtual appliance in VMware environments    >>read on
	BlueStripe provides a real-time application-centric view and detailed analysis of application and server behaviour - implemented as software agents on target servers and a management console application    >>read on
	Extrahop provides full application delivery assurance with 7-layer content-aware monitoring, threshold and trend alerting, and troubleshooting - implemented as a powerful network appliance, passively connected, that provides full stream reassembly and analysis    >>read on

   Analysing traffic flows within physical and virtualised environments

Products from Xangati provides excellent real-time monitoring and analysis of applications traffic flows in both physical and virtual networks.

The Xangati appliance provides real-time streaming visibility into all IP communications, Virtual to Virtual, Virtual to Physical, Physical to Physical, using an easy to implement, easy to use, agent-less technology accessing pre- existing NetFlow or flow data equivalents to view communications between devices.

Everything that is tracked and presented live is also recorded providing a VCR capability for troubleshooting and review. Automatic profiling thresholds every object's network activity for active, real-time network behaviour analysis and alerting.

In addition, Xangati for ESX Pro allows the features and benefits of NetFlow based visibility to extend to virtual switches and virtual machines in VMware environments.   >>more

   Real-time analysis of application and server behaviour

FactFinder software from BlueStripe Software enables Service Delivery, IT Operations, and Application Support teams to monitor and manage application system performance and troubleshoot system components across any application environment - Multi-tier application systems, Windows, Linux, Unix, and Mainframes, Physical, Virtual, and Cloud Computing platforms.

FactFinder software allows you to see where transactions go and where they spend their time across tiers and between nodes, at the process-level, for each application component across an entire application system.

FactFinder identifies the application and provides real-time application transaction dependency maps, hop-by-hop service request performance metrics, and problem triage for the most complex enterprise applications.  >>more

    End-to-end 7-layer application delivery assurance

The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system is a powerful passive network appliance that provides in- depth troubleshooting, end-to-end visibility of application end-user experience, and threshold and trend alerting on critical performance metrics.

Whilst other products typically only inspect Layer 4 headers, the ExtraHop system performs full-stream reassembly and analysis of the payload from Layer 2 to Layer 7.

Full-stream reassembly right up to Layer 7 provides fine detail real-time analysis of application transactions traversing the network, server, database, and storage tiers - and is able to alert on thresholds and trends across many different performance-affecting aspects of the total system.   >>more

To find out more about Phoenix Datacom products for Application Performance Management, call Phoenix Datacom in the UK on +44(0)1296 397711 , send an email or use the Request More Info form.

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