Application Performance Management; Security and Compliance; WAN
Management; CMDB Discovery; and Data Center Consolidation and Migration
Revealed as the Most Pressing IT Challenges for Companies Worldwide
SAN FRANCISCO and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA
Conference -- Mazu Networks, the leading(1) provider of behavior-based,
enterprise-class availability and performance solutions, today announced
that the company has identified the five most pressing IT initiatives for
CIOs in 2008 that will enable them to improve the availability and
performance of business services. Extensive customer interviews conducted
by Mazu Networks during 2007 reveal that CIOs are most challenged by
finding solutions to address five key initiatives, which include:
application performance management; security and compliance; WAN
management; CMDB discovery; and data center consolidation and migration.
"During the last year, we have received overwhelming feedback from our
customers on the benefits they have realized through Mazu Profiler for
their security, network and data center operations functions," said Paul
Brady, CEO, Mazu Networks. "As a result of these extensive and intensive
customer meetings, we identified the major initiatives they are tasked with
in 2008 and learned how Mazu Profiler enables them to work toward resolving
their key challenges. Through strategic partnerships, customer wins and
major technology enhancements, Mazu Networks will continue to provide
evidence of how Mazu Profiler can address the most pressing IT operations
concerns for enterprises worldwide."
Mazu Profiler offers organizations a new way of looking at the IT
infrastructure. By analyzing network traffic to provide valuable
information about the interactions of and dependencies between users,
applications and systems, Mazu Profiler enables IT organizations to manage,
secure and optimize the availability and performance of business services.
Providing organizations with this new perspective enables CIOs to address
key IT initiatives in the following ways:
Application Performance Management
The range of tools available to help IT groups ensure service delivery
has not kept pace with infrastructure complexities introduced by
optimization technologies and Web-based n-tier applications. Mazu
Profiler's advanced network behavior analytics help today's IT
organizations by providing:
Proactive service assurance
-- Layer 7 visibility to distinguish actual business applications beyond
the protocol/port level
-- Defining service-level objectives and monitoring for exceptions
-- Defining usage policies and monitoring for violations
Faster problem resolution
-- Understanding dependencies between users, applications, networks and
systems
-- Automating workflow with contextual information
Effective WAN management
-- Identifying bandwidth utilization by application
-- Identifying trends for improved capacity management
Security and Compliance
Information and IT resources are the building blocks on which business
services depend; securing these assets is paramount. A security breach can
slow performance and prevent users from accessing information or resources
on the network and can result in a number of damaging consequences
including loss of revenue, negative impact to brand and inability to
achieve regulatory compliance, among others. Although many products address
critical security issues, they often make the business needs of an
organization a second priority. Mazu Profiler enables organizations to give
their networks lockdown- quality security without sacrificing performance
and availability of business services by:
-- Detecting the broadest range of security threats and vulnerabilities
across the entire network
-- Improving threat alerting and corrective actions
-- Automating compliance-readiness planning
-- Automating regulatory and usage policy enforcement
-- Reducing the effort and cost required to support audits
-- Providing cross-functional capabilities and reporting
WAN Management
Many IT organizations are turning to WAN management and acceleration
technologies as a way to deliver better performance for business services
without increasing bandwidth. However, these technologies are expensive,
require a significant amount of management to ensure that their WAN
investments are fulfilled and may cause IT teams to lose visibility into
what is going on in their networks. Mazu Profiler gives organizations the
following capabilities needed to improve WAN management:
-- Identify and prioritize optimization candidates
-- Quantify the benefits of optimization
-- Maintain WAN service levels
CMDB Discovery
Within today's complex IT infrastructure it is critical for companies
to maintain an up-to-date database of all IT resources that contribute to
business services and that includes current information on how they are
interconnected and configured. Changes based on an accurate CMDB are less
likely to adversely affect availability and performance. There are many
CMDB products on the market that help IT groups maintain and manage IT
processes. However, many of these products use active scanning which can
cause performance issues or prevent access to certain parts of the network
because they lack the appropriate credentials.
Mazu Profiler does not require agents or scanning to discover assets
and their dependencies on the network thereby allowing IT teams to
accurately populate their configuration databases without affecting
performance. Through partnerships with leading CMDB providers, Mazu
Networks offers the following complementary discovery capabilities:
-- Passive application discovery and dependency mapping
-- Collect flow data from existing network equipment as a primary source
-- Layer 7 application fingerprinting
-- Behavioral analytics to detect significant change
Data Center Consolidation and Migration
Data center consolidation and migration is a major undertaking that
consumes significant time and resources and is fraught with risk. Planning
is long and arduous, often reliant on manual processes and therefore
error-prone. Current tools do not go far enough to address the risks
associated with data center moves, but through Mazu Profiler IT teams can:
-- Understand actual dependencies (i.e., what applications are running on
what servers?)
-- Understand actual usage (i.e., when is the optimal time to make the
data center move?)
-- Understand the impact of change (i.e., who will be affected? When will
they be affected? What is my change window?)
-- Proactively identify post-implementation problems (i.e., why are users
in a certain location having connection problems now that the data
center is moved and back online?)
Maintaining high network availability and performance is critical to
running a productive business. With Mazu Profiler, companies can address
critical IT initiatives and evolve their networked infrastructures to keep
pace with the speed of business today. For more information on the ways
Mazu Profiler can resolve today's most pressing IT operations challenges,
please visit: http://www.mazunetworks.com/it-initiatives/index.php.
About Mazu Networks, Inc.
Mazu Networks offers solutions that enable IT organizations to manage,
secure, and optimize the availability and performance of business services.
Mazu Profiler uses Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) to provide a new way of
looking at the IT infrastructure by analyzing network traffic to provide
valuable information about the interactions of and dependencies between
users, applications, and systems. This enables enterprise IT organizations
to ensure optimal performance and availability, enhanced protection and
support for regulatory compliance, and informed decision making for IT
initiatives. Only Mazu Profiler offers behavioral analytics, user
identification and application fingerprinting, role-based presentation
using common data, and intelligent operation with other systems in the
infrastructure. With Mazu Profiler, hundreds of customers are able to
ensure the availability, performance, and security of business services as
well as to reduce costs and satisfy regulatory requirements. For more
information, please visit http://www.mazunetworks.com.
(1) See: http://www.mazunetworks.com/news-events/061201-yankee.php.
SOURCE Mazu Networks
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http://www.mazunetworks.com
http://www.mazunetworks.com/it-initiatives/index.php
http://www.mazunetworks.com/news-events/061201-yankee.php
CONTACT:
Karen Regan, +1-617-354-9292, ext. 148,
karen.regan@mazunetworks.com, or Carol Lee, +1-617-354-9292, ext.
104, carol.lee@mazunetworks.com, both of Mazu Networks
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