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NetScout | NetScout Monitor - The NetScout Monthly Newsletter > Issue: May/June 2009
Issue: July/August 2009
IN THIS ISSUE:
The nGenius Service Assurance Solution Enhances
Functionality for the Financial Industry
Instrumentation Deployment Considerations and Best
Practices Guidelines
New Industry-Focused Support for Healthcare Environments
New Consulting Services
The nGenius Service Assurance Solution
Enhances Functionality for the
Financial Industry
In recent years the financial industry has worked to meet
the growing need for market data volumes and everincreasing
speeds for algorithmic trading and critical market
feeds that their customers demand. In order to achieve
these goals these organizations have turned to new
messaging protocols exclusively designed for financial
electronic communications that increase messaging
throughput rates while at the same time reduce overall
latency in order to drive productivity. Many IT organizations,
however, are discovering that these faster and higher
volume protocols are virtually impossible to track and
monitor with most traditional monitoring tools.
The nGenius® Service Assurance Solution has recently
introduced additional functionality geared toward meeting
the needs of these financial IT operations. By leveraging
close ties with major exchanges and primary financial
players, NetScout® Systems, Inc. bridges the gap between
the business of trading and the underlying technology of
packet analysis by providing comprehensive visibility into
financial trading applications.
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November 3-5th, 2009
This year’s Engage ’09 User
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The nGenius Solution release 4.7 provides key financial
trading functionality, including:
Support for over 600 financial data feeds
The ability to manage market feeds specific to
individual environments
Real-time alarming for market message loss
The ability to quickly administer financial trading and
market feed settings within the system
Read more about the newly introduced financial
industry functionality.
Instrumentation Deployment Considerations
and Best Practices Guidelines
IT organizations need to invest in service delivery
management because the application services these
networks carry is critical to business operations and overall
organizational success.
This paper focuses on how organizations can develop a
strategic plan to leverage different types of network-based
packet-flow instrumentation to achieve the necessary
coverage and visibility for optimal service delivery
management.
Read more on these best practices guidelines.
New Industry-Focused Support for Healthcare
Environments
NetScout Systems recently introduced the Healthcare
Remote Site Engineer (HcRSE) service, the first of our new
industry-focused support services aimed at increasing our
investment in our Premium Support customers and the
engineers that support them.
The HcRSE service provides 20-hours per week of dedicated
backend administration and support of your NetScout
environment by a support engineer who resides at a
NetScout facility. The HcRSE will be fully trained on the
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IDC Technology Spotlight
Securing the Risks of
Portable Network
Analyzers, Gaining
Location-Based Knowledge
Read More
IT Impact Brief
The Need for Visibility
Jim Metzler discusses the
need for network visibility, a
common theme highlighted
across many discussion
panels at Interop 2009,
including the suppliers of
application performance
management tools, firewalls,
routers, LAN switches and
WAN optimization
controllers.
Read this IT Impact Brief
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technology, issues and privacy requirements specific to the
healthcare industry and will have active memberships in
HIMSS and HITSP, the associations that drive the IT
standards for the healthcare industry, in order to ensure
they become a strategic partner on your IT staff.
For more information, download the data sheet or contact
your account manager.
New Consulting Services
Many of today’s IT organizations are operating with
increased workloads and decreased staffing resources and
this often leaves them with little time for deploying new
services or for taking a more proactive stance toward
performance management. As a result of these ongoing and
escalating challenges, the NetScout Consulting Services
team has created several new specialized offerings that are
designed to:
Ease internal staffing and time challenges
Accelerate time to value
Reduce learning curves through practical onsite
knowledge transfer
Deliver short-term results in conjunction with a longterm
strategy
The new consulting services either provide deep and specific
knowledge around NetScout solutions or are focused on
meeting the specific needs of vertical specialties.
The Market Feed Operation Review proactively monitors
the regularly scheduled and published changes in market
feed standards and then implements all necessary changes
to the nGenius System to ensure continued visibility into
these highly sensitive trading environments.
The Financial Services Network Assessment identifies
the specific technical challenges of monitoring the highly
latency-sensitive services delivery environment of financial
services companies.
The Certification and Accreditation Assistance Service
accelerates Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG)
certification of NetScout equipment for use in federal
government networks.
The nGenius K2 Optimization offering defines, tunes and
configures nGenius Performance Manager and nGenius K2 to
support the customers most critical applications and
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On-Demand Webinars
Introducing nGenius K2:
Improving Service Delivery &
Preventing Network
Meltdown
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NetworkWorld IT Roadmap
September 2, 2009
Dallas, TX
NetworkWorld IT Roadmap
September 17, 2009
Seattle, WA
Cisco Networkers Australia
September 28 -
October 1, 2009
Brisbane, Australia
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services.
The Knowledge Transfer Session employs mentoring and
hands-on learning within an organization’s network
environment to increase IT staff proficiency with NetScout
solutions and technologies.
The Implementation Service focuses on installing and
configuring the nGenius Service Assurance Solution to
optimize and accelerate the customers ability to quickly
resolve service delivery issues.
Contact your account manager for more information.
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