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Market Report
The Trusted News and Resource Site for SDx, SDN, NFV, Cloud and Virtualization Infrastructure
Special Report: Network
Performance Management
Takes On Applications
How the Future of Performance Management
Integrates Network Monitoring, Analytics,
Application Intelligence
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Table of Contents
Intro: A New Era for APM and NPM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Application Performance Management Trends in the Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Performance Analytics Drive the New User Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Market Trends Converging Performance Management Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Performance Management Products and the Road to Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Featured Performance Management Products
CA Technologies: CA Virtual Network Assurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Juniper Networks, Inc.: Contrail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Pluribus Networks: VCF Insight Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Network Testing and Network Performance Management
Accedian Networks Inc.: SkyLIGHT VCX Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Arista Networks: Aristas CloudVision Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Big Switch Networks: Big Monitoring Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Gigamon: Unified Visibility Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Kentik: Kentik Detect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Netmon: Netmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
NIKSUN: NIKSUN NetVCR Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Polystar: Polystar OSIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Qosmos: Qosmos ixEngine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Rocana: Rocana Ops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SolarWinds: SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Spirent: Spirent TestCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Zoho: WebNMS Symphony Orchestration Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Cloud and Application Performance Management
AppDynamics: Application Intelligence Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Astellia: Nova Explorer, Nova Alerter, Nova Performance Analytics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
BigPanda: BigPanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
BMC: TrueSight App Visibility Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Datadog: Datadog Cloud Scale Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Dell: Dell Foglight Performance Monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
IBM: IBM Application Performance Management APM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Idera: Uptime Infrastructure Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Microsoft Corporation: Microsoft Operations Management Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Nagios: Nagios XI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
New Relic: New Relic APM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Oracle: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Radware: Radware Alteon Virtual Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Riverbed Technologies: Riverbed SteelCentral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sinefa: Network Visibility and Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Splunk: Splunk Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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Integrated NPM and APM
Brocade: Brocade Network Visibility Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Cisco Systems: Cisco Nexus Data Broker & Cisco Prime Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Corvil: Corvil Solution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Dynatrace: Dynatrace Digital Performance Platform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
EXFO: EXFO Worx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
ExtraHop: ExtraHop Platform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Hewlett Packard Enterprise: HPE AppPulse Suite & HPE Network Node Manager i . . . . . . . . . . 42
InfoVista: VistaInsight and 5View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
InMon Corp.: sFlow-RT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Ixia: Hawkeye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
LiveAction: LiveNX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
LogicMonitor: LogicMonitor Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
NetScout Systems Inc.: nGeniusONE Service Assurance Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Nokia: VitalSuite Performance Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Viavi Solutions: Viavi Performance Management Solution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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VCF Insight Analytics is
a monitoring solution
intended to replace
the most common
deployment of packet
brokers and analysis
tools. It provides an
inexpensive means to
monitor and track the
performance of business
application flows of
information, and can
be used with or
without existing
Pluribus Networks
based switching fabrics.
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What matters to them is areliable digital experience.Next-generation networks demand next-generation assurance
CA Virtual Network Assurance
SDN/NFV performance and fault management.Learn more atca.com/vna
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Intro: A New Era for APM and NPM
The landscape for application performance management (APM) and network performance management (NPM)
has changed enormously over the last few years, driven largely by changing infrastructure and application
architectures.
The industry as a whole, including enterprises, service providers and vendors, is grappling with difficult
performance management issues. How do you monitor, analyze and optimize the behavior of highly distributed,
virtualized, cloud-based systems built of ever smaller components such as containers and micro-services?
In this report, SDxCentral examines the trends that are re-shaping the APM and NPM markets and driving the
need for integrated APM/NPM solutions.
Trends Impacting APM and NPM Solutions
A variety of trends are driving the APM and NPM markets to converge. Key trends highlighted in this report
include:
Adoption of hybrid data center architectures and cloud-based services and applications is driving the need
for cloud support in APM/NPM tools, including end-to-end views of application transactions Strong uptake of SDN and NFV to automate provisioning is driving the need for performance management to
follow
Relentless growth in network traffic, fueled by video, Internet of Things and other applications is driving the
need for scalable tools that can collect and analyze very high volumes of application and network traffic and
performance data
Rise of the consumer user is driving the need for transaction-oriented end-user experience metrics
New software development approaches such as DevOps and containers is driving the need for closed-loop
monitoring and visibility into application components and their interdependenciesAn introduction to SDx
infrastructure security
APM and NPM Convergence
Todays applications and networks are deeply intertwined. Those interdependenciesand their rapid rate of
change--are driving the need for a more holistic approach to performance management. Network and appli-
cation metrics must both be factored into measuring application performance and end user experience if CIOs
are to gain a quantitative understanding of whether their applications meet business objectives.
A key challenge for the industry is the need to instrument, collect and manage large volumes of monitoring
data, including complex interdependencies among application components, infrastructure, LAN, WAN and
cloud environments. While many enterprises and service providers are successfully using SDN and NFV for
automation, the industry has only begun to address the need for performance monitoring and management of
these deployments.
Vendors efforts to deliver a suite of converged APM/NPM products has spurred considerable consolidation
along with new product classes and descriptions such as application-aware NPM and application-aware infra-structure performance management.
User Feedback on APM/NPM Market
SDxCentral conducted a survey asking the community to weigh in on the APM and NPM markets. Of the 79
respondents to the APM-NPM survey, 37% were technology vendors; 24% telecommunications service
providers; 19% enterprise end-users; 9% were cloud service providers; and 11% other. Figures in this report sort
these results into two groups of respondents: technology vendors and end-users/customers (which includes
enterprises, telecommunications service providers and cloud service providers).
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When asked to rank the principle benefits of APM and NPM technologies, respondents identified improved
visibility and simplified operations as the biggest value (42% for APM, 48% for NPM). For APM, respondents also
cited improved user experiences and customer satisfaction (42%), and for NPM solutions cited enhanced
productivity from improved network performance (40%).
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PRINCIPLE BENEFITS OF APM TECHNOLOGY
42%
24%
18%
41%
42%
59%
17%
28%
17%
14%
18%
10%
10%
7%
20%
14%
Improved Visibility andSimplified Operations, with a
Single Pane of Glass
Enhanced Productivityfrom Improved Application
Performance
Business Growth Enablement
Better User Experience andCustomer Satisfaction
Cost Control Due toBetter Use of Resources
Improved Network and IT Planning,with the Ability to Determine where
to Reconfigure / Recode
Improved ApplicationManagement
Ability to Trace TransactionsAcross Distributed Applications
Competitive Differentiation
6%
10%
End Users
Vendors
Respondents could choose their top two principle benefits.
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PRINCIPLE BENEFITS OF NPM TECHNOLOGY
48%
41%
20%
31%
40%
28%
10%
38%
41%
6%
8%
4%
10%
7%
32%
31%
Improved Visibility andSimplified Operations, with a
Single Pane of Glass
Cost Control Due to Better
Use of Resources
Enhanced Productivityfrom Improved Network
Performance
Business Growth Enablement
Improved Network and IT Planning,with the Ability to Determine where
to Reconfigure / Recode
Competitive Differentiation
Better User Experience/Customer Satisfaction
Improved ApplicationManagement
End Users
Vendors
Respondents could choose their top two principle benefits.
0 20%10% 30% 50%40%
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Despite recognizing the benefits of performance management, the majority of those surveyed said current APM
and NPM tools are not meeting their needs. The complexity and cost of these solutions are major challenges for
customers. Gaps in coverage and lack of integration with SDN/NFV are the next biggest pain points.
Given the current performance management challenges, interest in integrated solutions is highfavored by 92%
of customer respondents.
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BIGGEST CHALLENGES WITH APM & NPM SOLUTIONS
75%
50%
25%
0
Complexity
64%
Costs
54%
Gaps inCoverage
30%
Lack ofIntegration with
SDN/NFV
Capabilities
30%
Lack ofIntegration with
Container
Technologies
14%
Lack ofSecurity
Features
8%
Respondents could choose their top 3 challenges. Results from 50 end users surveyed.
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Application Performance Management Trends in the Cloud
A variety of technology initiatives and trends are driving the need for a new, integrated approach to APM and
NPM. We highlight the key trends here.
Adoption of Cloud ArchitecturesCloud architectures are increasingly popular for the data center, especially hybrid clouds that combine
on-premises resources with public cloud-based services. A recent survey conducted by IDG Research Services
found that 83% of respondents currently use or plan to use a hybrid cloud environment.1
On the plus side, hybrid clouds let enterprises instantly expand resources or spin up a new application, often at
considerable savings compared to in-house deployments. However, use of public cloud services makes
end-to-end performance management a challenge since IT staff often have little to no visibility into traffic in the
cloud, nor can they control it. The lack of end-to-end visibility across public cloud and on-premises
infrastructure is one of the key challenges to deploying hybrid clouds.
Another challenge is that clouds, by their nature, are highly dynamic. Cloud management software can provision
entire application systems automatically, while deployment tools like Puppet can update thousands of virtual
machines simultaneously. Monitoring this dynamic resource usage and tracking the various network paths
present in hybrid environments is difficult, making it hard to diagnose application performance issues.
Uptake of SDN and NFV
Adoption of software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies are
contributing to the need for new performance management solutions. Many enterprises and service providers
are already using SDN in their data centers to automate provisioning, benefiting from lower operational
overhead and the ability to respond dynamically to business and application demands. Similarly, by separating
network functions into discrete elements that can be activated and managed in software, NFV makes the IT
infrastructure more flexible and scalable.
However, making resources and services immediately available presents performance management challenges.
For example, traditional network management tools only run discovery operations periodically, creatingsignificant visibility gaps in SDN and NFV deployments. Automating changes or instantiating user-demanded
services without knowing whether the network can fulfill these requests is risky, as they could be provisioned
over paths that are near the saturation point. Likewise, changes to one component in an SDN or NFV
environment can affect many other components; performance management tools need to provide visibility into
these interdependencies.
Impact of Network Traffic Trends
Changes in the volume, type and duration of network traffic are also having an impact on the type of
performance management tools needed. Traffic volumes continue to climb. Video traffic, in particular, is
escalating, both for consumer and business use (Netflix and YouTube now account for over half of all broadband
traffic during peak hours). Uptake of VoIP, graphics-heavy social media sites and applications such as Snapchat
and Instagram, as well as peer-to-peer file sharing are also contributing to rising traffic volumes.
Internet of Things (IoT) devices as diverse as store kiosks and smart watches are also adding to network traffic
loads. Its estimated that the number of IoT devices could reach as high as 50 billion nodes in 2020, driven by
both commercial and consumer use cases.
1Source: http://apmdigest.com/application-performance-hybrid-cloud-1
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End User Expectations
In the era of the consumer user, employees, end customers and other users have come to expect anywhere,
anytime access to content and applications with performance equivalent to a wired connection (or, put another
way, I want it now!). Research shows that just a one-second increase in page response time can decrease page
views by 11%, cut customer satisfaction by 16%, and decrease revenue by 7%.2
Applications Trends
In contrast to yesterdays monolithic applications, today's apps are built with reusable components and are
highly distributed, often with components spread across on-premises data centers and public clouds.
Development approaches such as DevOps allow IT to build, test and deploy applications much faster than in the
past, so the pace of application development and deployment is accelerating. Container software systems such
as Docker are being used to create large platforms for distributed apps, as well as to develop microservices,
which execute in containers. Some containers address each others workloads through API calls, while other
container systems rely on network functionality to connect their distributed parts.
Many organizations are now managing application ecosystems composed of hundreds or thousands of
foundational elements, with transactions executing across heterogeneous software platforms, networks,
databases, and legacy technologies. As enterprise applications become more componentized and networked,
an understanding of the relationships and dependencies between infrastructure and application elements has
become critical to performance management.
Performance Analytics Drive the New User Experience
Given the critical role applications play in business success, a key goal for enterprises and service providers is to
ensure the best possible application performance. Poor performance can originate in the network, servers,
application logic, database or other areas. Trying to pinpoint the cause is increasingly difficult since applications
change rapidly and now run on a highly dynamic, automated and increasingly virtualized infrastructure thats
often distributed across on-premises and public cloud infrastructure.
Traditionally, APM and NPM tools have provided views of individual aspects of service delivery, such as network,
systems and storage. But today application and network performance have become more intertwined than ever.
Its no longer sufficient simply to monitor discrete network elements, such as CPU/memory utilization, device
pooling, packet loss and jitter, and to infer application performance from resource utilization. In addition, the
dynamic nature of todays virtualized infrastructure means IT can no longer count on a static topology as a
source of monitoring data.
When asked about the top functions theyre looking for in APM/NPM solutions, the majority of customers (52%)
that responded to SDxCentrals survey cited the ability to monitor cloud services across public, private and
hybrid environments. The next most sought after functions include application performance monitoring (44%),
real-time application monitoring (36%), SDN controller integration (36%), and deep packet inspection (32%).
And, as noted earlier, more than 90% want an integrated APM/NPM solution.
2Source: Riverbed - The Aberdeen Group
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TOP FUNCTIONS CUSTOMERS ARE LOOKING FOR IN APM/NPM SOLUTIONS
52%38%
24%
34%
44%
48%
22%
21%
12%
3%
36%
59%
20%
24%
10%
7%
36%
28%
18%
7%
10%
3%
32%
31%
18%
10%
10%
17%
32%
41%
16%
17%
8%
7%
Cloud Services Monitoringacross Public, Private, and
Hybrid Environments
Real-time ApplicationMonitoring
Mobile Device Monitoring
SLA Monitoring
Code-level Monitoring
Application PerformanceMonitoring
Response-time Analysis(network)
Deep Packet Inspection(DPI)
Controller Integration
Real-time Network Monitoring
Transaction Analytics AcrossDistributed Applications
Traffic Analytics
Database Diagnostics
SDN Controller Integration
User Analytics
Response-time Analysis(applications)
Protocol-level Analysis
End Users
Vendors
Respondents could choose their top four functions
0 30%15% 45% 60%
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Below we highlight some of the key requirements for modern performance management solutions.
Cloud Considerations
Managing performance across hybrid and public cloud-based applications is a major challenge. Monitoring
traditional APM metrics, such as server availability, arent always useful in the cloud. For example, servers/VMs
come and go so monitoring server availability wont tell you much about the performance of an application as a
whole.
Rather, the focus has shifted to the user transaction and its response time, which requires end-to-end visibility
across on-premises infrastructure and public cloud infrastructure. Among the capabilities that a converged
APM/NPM solution needs to support cloud-based applications and services are the ability to:
Discover and map each applications topology across the relevant data centers/clouds
Consume and analyze metrics from API gateways, messaging platforms, and other integration points
Provide visibility into performance across application tiers
Optimize workloads through established policies
Support application agents that can initiate a connection (call home) to the management system.
The last item is a big change. Legacy performance management systems typically rely on remote procedure
calls from the management system to the monitors and other data collectors. However, this pull approach
wont work in the cloud because its not necessarily possible to open an inbound port into cloud-based
applications.
End User Experience Todays 99.999
Applications are essential for business success. For many enterprises and service providers, end user experience
(EUE) has become the metric by which applicationand therefore business--performance is measured. A
whopping 95% of line of business respondents to an IDC survey3 said that maintaining a positive user
experience for business-critical applications is very important, and 85% said not doing so has a strong negative
impact on the business.
A key issue facing many enterprises is the need to track the performance of every type of application they
support, including commercial applications such as SAP, Oracle Financial and Microsoft Exchange; custom-built
apps; web-enabled apps; and mobile apps. Many traditional APM tools focus only on custom-built applications;
however, IT needs a performance management solution that can provide end-to-end visibility into all application
types and transactions running across hybrid environments, and discover all application dependencies no
matter where they are located.
The complexity of modern applications also presents a serious challenge to managing service delivery. Theres
a growing consensus that the best way to measure EUE from an application perspective is to measure the
response time and throughput of every application in production, rather than focus on resource utilization, such
as CPU and memory use. Similarly, the key metric for network performance is end-to-end latency, not simply
the bandwidth utilization and response time of individual network devices.
From a product standpoint, EUE management requires a unified APM/NPM architecture that can do the
following:
Provide visibility into how system and network resources are serving all applications.
3Source: https://www.appdynamics.com/press-release/
idc-releases-first-ever-devops-and-application-performance-survey/
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Represents the relationships between application components and network components, including visibility
into real-time communication between the different application tiers.
Correlates network and application performance data in real time.
The Data Deluge and Need for High-Volume Data Analytics
Given the dynamic, transient nature of the IT infrastructure and the explosion of inter-dependencies among
application and infrastructure components, its become clear that application and network monitoring must be
done with much greater fidelity and frequency. That means collecting and analyzing much more data than ever
before.
Below are some of the key characteristics that need to be included to provide comprehensive APM and NPM.
The Type of Monitoring Data Collected
Gartner recommends taking a data-centric approach to monitoring and combining input from multiple sources4,
such as: log files for infrastructure and applications; API data, which includes utilization metrics gathered from
APIs built into components; wire data extracted from packets and flows across networks; intra-code
instrumentation data gathered by instrumentation inserted into apps and infrastructure elements; and synthetic
data, such as that derived from simulating business transactions. Gartner analysts recommend that operators
focus on these data sources and treat topology information, CMDB schema and other static, domain-specific
models as secondary, heuristic devices.
Wire data is created by reassembling network data into full streams and providing payload analysis and full
context in real time. Thats why wire data is an especially good source of accurate information about behavior
events across the entire IT infrastructure and application portfolio. In fact, because packet header information in
wire data can provide direct observations of end-user experience, analysts believe that wire data5will play a
primary role in availability and performance analysis.
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Respondents could choose their top three important protocols. Results from 50 end users surveyed.
sdxcentral.com
NETWORK PROTOCOLS BY IMPORTANCE
Netflow76%
SNMP44%
TWAMP2%
Jflow6%
Telnet/CLI vendor-specific format10%
Y.1731, 802.3ag12%
SSH vendor-specific format20%
IPFIX26%
Syslog vendor-specific format30%
IP SLA40%
sFlow30%
0 20% 60% 80%40%
Wire data is also used to understand inter-tier transaction performance. The graph below illustrates the
protocols that SDxCentral survey respondents consider most important to monitor.
Howand How FrequentlyData is Collected: Scalability Challenges
Collecting performance data at scale with the necessary frequency and volume is driving the need for very
high-performance monitoring solutions. On the network side, for example, technologies such as packet sniffers,
flow analyzers, deep-packet inspection, and network probes must evolve to keep pace with multi-gigabit
network speeds. Some vendors have responded by introducing monitoring fabrics.
Monitoring must be done much more frequently than before, with data collection occurring in the 5 to 15 second
range to avoid missing important events in the dynamic infrastructure. Increasing the frequency of monitoring
also increases the volume of data collected and in need of analysis.
In addition, many industry players see a need for agents, collectors, and other entities that forward monitoring
data to use phone home techniques to communicate to the back-end management system. Part of the
problem is that traditional polling methods cant support the sheer volume of data that needs to be collected;
the polling traffic itself could cause bottlenecks.
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Some vendors as well as the Principal Architect and Manager of Googles Network Architecture team6have
expressed the need for telemetry in network devices that can push status information to management
systems rather than the management system periodically polling those devices. Currently, the SNMP agent on a
device will only push messages, or traps, to the management system when a threshold, such as CPU or
bandwidth utilization, is crossed.
Storing and Analyzing All that Data: More Scalability ChallengesA converged performance management solution will need to be supported by an underlying data architecture
that can cope with the arrival rate and quantity of management data collected. Having a common data store is
key to enabling data sharing by different performance management tools, whether these are from a single
vendor or best-of-breed solutions from different vendors.
Once collected, the data needs to be analyzed and presented. Again, scalability is an issue as the amount of
data that needs to be analyzed is quite large. The industry is looking to self-learning analytics and other
methods to handle combing through these volumes of data and performing functions such as statistical
analysis, machine-learning-assisted pattern discovery, anomaly detection, causal analysis and data visualization.
APM/NPM and the Capability to Leverage SDN/NFV
Both SDN and NFV environments need real-time monitoring and analytics so the network software itself can
factor performance into the provisioning process. For example, if a given link is performing poorly, an SDN
network with performance intelligence can route around it. Likewise, changes to one component in an SDN or
NFV environment can affect many other components, so operators need visibility into these interdependencies.
In the NFV market, the trend is toward the creation of microservices, which will be connected to one another via
network virtualization, creating even more interdependencies.
In SDN and NFV environments, performance management tools need to provide granular visibility into changes
occurring in these environments as well as highly scalable relationship analytics to support the many
interdependencies.
Flexible Deployment Options
Customers want business-oriented performance metrics that can be used by multiple stakeholder groups. They
also want less complex management interfaces with more sophisticated visualization and drill-down capabilities.
Customers are also looking for a flexible delivery model that lets them choose to deploy APM/NPM tools in any
combination of on-premises, SaaS, or hybrid implementations, based on their existing platform and business
model.
Use of SDN/NFV and White Box Technologies in Performance Monitoring
Start-ups in the SDN/NFV space have introduced new tools that are less dependent on proprietary hardware and
that leverage commodity silicon from vendors like Broadcom. These new breed of solutions, coupled with SDN
technologies and Big Data analytics create novel approaches that provide improved visibility of both networks
and applications at a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional solutions. Companies like Big Switch
Networks and Pluribus Networks are pushing the boundaries of monitoring and coupling application awarenesswith network telemetry, allowing them to make inroads against more entrenched vendors like Cisco, CA
Technologies as well as IXIA, NetScout and Gigamon.
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Summary of User Requirements for Converged APM/NPM Solutions
Supports cloud architectures
Collects a variety of data types (log, API, wire, etc.) at very frequent intervals (5-15 seconds)
Provides application delivery/user-experience monitoring both end-to-end and at the component level
Network monitoring able to scale to 40 or 100 Gbps and handle encrypted traffic at line rate
Highly scalable, including efficient storage and handling of terabytes and petabytes of application and
network traffic and performance data
Provides visibility into and performance management of SDN and NFV environments
Tracks, correlates and provides end-to-end visibility into complex application component interdependencies
Tracks, correlates and provides end-to-end visibility into complex application, infrastructure and network
relationships and interdependencies
Supports a variety of monitoring architectures to accommodate different business goals.
Integrates with DevOps environments for closed-loop monitoring and provides visibility into container-based
applications
Ease of use based on automated, rather than manual, configuration and tagging
Is programmable, allowing customer to extend the platform or tools functionality
Market Trends Converging Performance Management Platforms
In todays cloud-based, virtualized IT infrastructure, applications and networks are deeply intertwined. These
interdependencies are driving the need for a more holistic approach to performance management.
Consequently, vendor approaches to performance management are shifting, spawning new sets of tool sets
that combine APM and NPM functionality in order to provide an accurate picture of end-user experience and
performance across the entire application delivery environment.
Understandably, a lot is in flux. Traditional APM and NPM vendors are trying to expand the reach of their
product portfolios, new players continue to enter the market, and new terms have emerged for converged
solutions, including: application-aware NPM; network-aware APM; and application-aware infrastructure
performance management (AA-IPM). Vendors are busy both buying and building out their solutions, and market
consolidation continues apace. Here we highlight key trends in the market.
Consolidation Continues
Consolidation is likely to continue in the APM/NPM market as vendors seek to buy key capabilities to round out
their product lines. For example, both Microsoft and BMC Software beefed up their AA-IPM chops last year,
buying up BlueStripe Software and Boundary Networks, respectively. For its part InfoVista, a CSP and
large-enterprise-focused NPM provider, acquired Ipanema Technologies as a means to expand its APM
capabilities, particularly for VoIP and UC.
(Interestingly, BMC was acquired by a private investor group in 2013, and InfoVista is owned by a private equity
firm that also has major stakes in Dynatrace and Riverbed Technology.)
Microsoft is integrating BlueStripes application management technology into its own management products
and services, including System Center and Operations Management Suite (OMS). This technology includes an
OS-based agent that watches the traffic flow between the OS and everything it talks to, down to the transaction
level; discovers the topology of the applications running on each server; maps applications and their
dependencies; calculates an end-to-end and hop-by-hop response-time metric for each application; and
pinpoints problems, helping maintain SLAs across complex underlying infrastructure. The agent was designed
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to support applications running on Windows, Linux, AIX, and Solaris OS.
BMC has a range of IT operations management products as well as APM offerings, including TrueSight
Operations Management and the TrueSight App Visibility Manager, which provides application server and EUE
monitoring. With its purchase of Boundary, BMC added a SaaS-based AA-IPM solution, dubbed TrueSight Pulse,
to its mix. TrueSight Pulse provides visibility into cloud and server infrastructure using real-time telemetry andphone home capabilities to monitor metrics from web applications and the underlying cloud and on-premises
infrastructure. Its support for Amazon Web Service (AWS) includes discovery of all AWS services and resources;
real-time data collection and display; and predefined alarm settings for key metric values.
Architectural Approaches to Converged APM/NPM
Theres strong demand among enterprises and service providers for open performance management solutions
that support a collection of best-of-breed tools. Many would like to see the DevOps model used to create
bundles of open and interoperable APM/NPM tools that can analyze a variety of performance data sources. The
majority (60%) of customers who responded SDxCentrals survey indicated they want APM/ NPM solutions
delivered as virtual network functions (VNFs).
Here are two approaches vendors are taking to unify APM and NPM in a converged solution.
The Integrated Platform Approach
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), IBM, CA Technologies and BMC are among the vendors offering perfor-
mance management platforms designed to unify application, network and infrastructure performance
management by integrating disparate data sets, tools, reporting, etc. While platform vendors sell suites of their
own tools for their platforms, some also support an ecosystem of third-party products.
A Common Big Data Back End
With this approach, each ecosystem partner puts their unique data and its schema into a common data store
and makes it available to every other vendor in the ecosystem. Currently, cooperating APM/NPM vendors are
reusing each others data through common big data back ends such as Splunk and OpsDataStore.
Splunk is the leading big data back end. It has an established ecosystem of partners that take advantage of the
large variety of log and other monitoring data Splunk collects and stores. Similarly, start-up OpsDataStore
launched its data back end with an ecosystem of partners including AppDynamics, Dynatrace, ExtraHop, Qlik,
and Tableau. For example, through OpsDataStore, detailed wire data from Extrahop is available for use by
Dynatrace and AppDynamics APM suites.
With these building blocks, sophisticated IT shops can create their own converged tools for APM, NPM, infra-
structure performance management, operations and cloud management.
Tackling Performance Management in SDN and NFV Environments
The industry has made progress in addressing the performance management challenges that SDN and NFV
present, including key standards work, which is imperative given the roles of these technologies in todays IT
infrastructure.
For example, close work between the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) andOpen Networking Foundation (ONF) has spurred the development of an open source implementation focused
on automating unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) quality of experience (QoE). This solution is
designed to combine network element information with UC&C session metrics in real-time to provide visibility
into an automated problem resolution for voice, video and desktop-sharing sessions in-flight or any period
thereafter.
While this is just one use case, it demonstrates how SDN can be used to automatically program dynamic QoS
policies across the network on a per session basis. Its also significant because the focus is on the end point,
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enabling an end user, real-time media application to communicate the bandwidth and traffic treatment it needs,
which the network then automatically provisions. At the same time, this solution provides visibility needed for
root cause analysis of UC&C quality issues, and automates problem resolution without requiring dedicated
probes, synthetics, etc.
The NFV camp has also been busy. For example, the Management and Orchestration (MANO) Working Groupof the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has defined an architecture for the
management and orchestration of all resources in the cloud data center, including computing, networking,
storage, and virtual machine resources. One of the key components of the NFV management and orchestration
(NFV MANO) architecture is the virtual infrastructure manager (VIM).
The VIM coordinates the physical resources necessary to deliver network services, which includes: managing
compute, storage, network and other hardware resources as well as software resources such as hypervisors;
discovery of their capabilities and features; maintaining an inventory of the allocation of virtual resources to
physical resources; and orchestrating and optimizing the allocation, upgrade, release, and reclamation of NFV
resources.
Many vendors offer VIMs. In addition, OpenStack is often deployed as a VIM: It controls pools of compute,
storage, and networking resources that can be managed through OpenStack API. Many vendors have createdOpenStack implementations of their own, including Red Hat, Mirantis, Oracle and VMware. Other vendors
supply VIM solutions as well as add-ons to OpenStack.
In addition to these industry efforts, some vendors support SDN and NFV within their performance
management tools. For example, CA Technologies supports SDN and NFV in its CA Virtual Network Assurance
gateway, which provides visibility into the multi-layered SDN/NFV stack and its physical network relationships.
HPE offers several SDN and NFV-related management tools, including the IMC Virtual Application Networks
(VAN) Software Defined Network (SDN) Manager Software, which provides monitoring, fault, configuration,
accounting and security for SDN environments. Similarly, the HPE NFV Director includes monitoring and perfor-
mance-related capabilities, including monitoring each VNF component; correlating the physical infrastructure
view into VNF-specific virtual infrastructure views; and proving views of network services, including correlating
all virtual and physical network functions that are part of a service.
Companies with Both NPM and APM Angles
While many companies are working on converged performance management tools, three companies stand out
for making it into both the APM and NPM Gartner Magic Quadrant reports.
CA Technologies CA Technologies offers a suite of performance management products, a cloud management
platform, SDN/NFV and other solutions. CA has an extensive NPM tool set, including network analytics, visibility
and management. Its APM offerings include: analytics and reporting of EUE information; mobile device
monitoring; monitoring support for microservices and Docker containers; and API gateway support for
management of API-connected services. The company aims to provide insight into the services and
components underlying an application and how change might impact its performance.
A key part of CA's strategy is to provide a unified architecture, including a single user interface and reportingsystem, via its CA Unified Infrastructure Management (CA UIM) solution. The company also has several cloud
offerings. CA UIM for Amazon Web Services lets customers monitor the availability and performance of AWS
EC2 and S3 systems. CA UIM interacts with the Amazon CloudWatch Web service and gathers resource
utilization metrics such as CPU, disk, network and memory, and has a CloudWatcher function that lets
customers view and manage cloud instances and associated CloudWatch services.
HPE A key component of HPEs management portfolio is its Intelligent Management Center (IMC) platform,
which supports a variety of modular tools including APM, network traffic analysis, service health manager, user
behavior and SDN management.
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HPE offers an array of application monitoring and performance management tools for desktop, web and mobile
apps that support on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The companys APM products are available in
any combination of on-premises, SaaS or hybrid implementations.
HPEs APM solutions support business transaction monitoring, providing visibility into process flows over the
entire application and infrastructure environment. HPEs Real User Monitoring (RUM) addresses EUE bymonitoring the performance and availability of application services and allowing IT to trace user experience
across tiers, capture live sessions, see where customers clicked, measure response times, and see pages that
caused problems. RUM supports more than 20 application protocols and applications such as SAP, Citrix and
native mobile application monitoring on Android. It also includes a software development kit for building
custom integrations to capture user experience in specific applications, such as for the banking and telecom
industries.
HPE has a long history providing enterprise network monitoring tools and has a substantial NPM portfolio and
customer base. For example, HPEs RUM and Network Node Manager i provide deep packet inspection that,
coupled with the IMC platforms extensive device support, provide end-to-end management for the entire
network and operation cycle.
Riverbed Technology Riverbed is better known for the technical breadth and depth of its NPM products but
also has a robust APM offering.
A key component of Riverbeds converged solution is the SteelCentral Portal, a console that integrates data
from SteelCentral and SteelHead products to provide visibility into and control over end-user experience,
application performance and network performance across hybrid environments. The SteelCentral Portal
supports a suite of performance-related tools, including: NetSensor for infrastructure component monitoring;
NetProfiler for network reporting and analytics, including core protocol and flow analysis; AppInternals for EUE
monitoring and transaction tracing; and AppResponse for fixing performance problems.
On the NPM side, the companys SteelHead product family is focused on WAN optimization and improving
service levels for applications across data centers, branch locations, cloud networks, and end users. The
SteelHead SaaS module is designed to boost the performance of SaaS applications, including Microsoft Office365 and Salesforce.com. Riverbed also supports open APIs and development tools, called SteelScript, that
allow software developers to write applications that communicate with other systems and services within the
Riverbed ecosystem.
APM and NPM Leaders
Within the APM market, AppDynamics, Dynatrace and New Relic maintain leading positions, while Cisco and
NetScout dominate the NPM market. These companies hold leadership spots in their respective areas, but all are
fleshing out their tool kits and addressing key challenges customers face, from cloud integration to transaction
times/EUE monitoring across diverse infrastructure.
AppDynamicsfocuses on providing real-time insights into application performance, user experience, and
business outcomes, and has made the business transaction its primary unit of management for software
applications. The company offers an application-centric unified monitoring platform designed to monitor end
user, application, database and infrastructure for end-to-end visibility into business transactions.
Dynatracealso focuses on giving customers the ability to trace individual transactions, from inception in a
users browser through the entire application system. The companys suite of APM products provide application
as well as user monitoring, and include both on-premises and SaaS components.
Dynatraces Ruxit product combines website and application performance monitoring and includes application
monitoring down to the code-level; server monitoring, including CPU, memory, and network health metrics
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down to the process level; network monitoring that reveals the quality of all process connections, including
processes distributed across virtualized cloud environments and data centers; and EUE monitoring, which
captures metrics from web browsers. Ruxit also monitors private as well as public cloud deployments, including
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Cloud Foundry and OpenStack environments.
New Relic delivers purely SaaS-based APM functionality. This approach has become popular with small tomid-size enterprises for its simplicity. After installing the New Relic agent in applications, customers log onto a
web console that points to the cloud-based back end, dubbed the Software Analytics Cloud. Via this back end,
customers get a single point of analysis for application performance, EUE and business outcomes.
New Relics suite of APM tools encompass application, server, browser, mobile and synthetic monitoring. The
company supports a range of cloud environments and tools, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web
Services. For example, New Relics Azure agent, which is available directly from the Microsoft Azure
Marketplace, provides performance dashboards as a live frame within the Azure portal, and supports Microsoft
Azure infrastructure, web and mobile services. Similarly, New Relics AWS plugin gives customers a single pane
for viewing New Relic application data alongside data from key AWS tools such as AWS Elastic Beanstalk,
Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS.
Cisco has a long history in the NPM area, given its network hardware roots and large installed base. The
companys Cisco Prime line encompasses a variety of NPM offerings for data center and cloud management.
These include: Cisco Prime Performance Manager, which gathers performance statistics for Cisco and
multivendor network devices spanning the network core, aggregation and access layers; Cisco Prime Network,
which provides automated network discovery, configuration and change management, with end-to-end views
of the physical and virtual network topology and inventory; and Cisco Prime Infrastructure, which provides
network-wide lifecycle management, assurance visibility and troubleshooting encompassing the data center,
WAN, branch office and wireless users. Many of these tools are designed to work together; for example,
combining Cisco Prime Network with the Prime Performance Manager gives operators granular visibility into
network and service topologies along with related performance metrics.
NetScout Systems expanded its product set considerably last year through an acquisition that included NPM
vendor Fluke Networks and VSS Monitoring, which provides network packet brokers and taps. NetScouts NPM
offerings include the nGeniusONE Service Assurance platform, which supports service management and
traffic-based intelligence across complex, converged IT environments. This platform provides metrics, analysis
and views into applications, service enablers, server transactions, user communities and the network, offering
customers visibility into the relationships across the IT environment.
NetScout added Flukes TruView line of products to its portfolio. Characterized as an application-aware NPM
product, TruView is an application and network performance monitoring and management tool that monitors
application transactions and reports response time for user, network and application tiers; monitors both
physical and virtual device/interface availability; and provides traffic analysis details across LAN, WAN, and
cloud environments. TruView also supports VoIP performance monitoring, among other features.
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TOP APM VENDORS
Respondents could choose their top three vendors
Cisco28%
Riverbed28%
IBM10%
Brocade18%
Other12%
Netmon4%
New Relic12%
InfoVista4%
BMC12%
Dell8%
SolarWinds18%
Oracle10%
NetScout/VSS20%
Microsoft20%
HPE20%
CA Technologies20%
AppDynamics22%
Dynatrace22%
0 20% 30%10%
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TOP NPM VENDORS
Cisco42%
NetScout/VSS34%
BMC8%
Ixia12%
IBM10%
Viavi4%
Spirent12%
Netmon8%
Other12%
Dell8%
Oracle12%
Corvil8%
InfoVista12%
HPE18%
CA Technologies18%
Brocade20%
SolarWinds30%
Gigamon26%
0 20% 40%10% 30%
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Performance Management Products and the Road to Convergence
Theres clear advantage to having a converged APM/NPM solution, given the complexity of todays hybrid,
virtualized IT infrastructure and the interdependencies between applications and the underlying infrastructure and
networks that support them. However, its going to take some more time to fully develop these solutions.
Product complexity continues to be an issue. APM/NPM solutions are comprised of many modules and separate
tools. Vendors have many overlapping and not-yet-integrated offerings sometimes representing conflicting
messages even within the same vendor. Simplifying these offerings and abstracting actionable information for
easy consumption remains a priority. Providing customers with a comprehensive, coherent data set available to
a suite of APM/NPM tools and usable by various stake holders also remains a priority.
On the plus side, the industry is tackling the need for cloud support, SDN and NFV integration, and EUE
monitoring. In addition, some good approaches to the scalability challenge are emerging. Likewise, there are
various ecosystems of vendors already in place that are helping customers build an APM/NPM tool kit using a
best-of-breed approach.
The availability of SaaS-based offerings and fully managed APM/NPM services is helping drive down costs, and
this trend is likely to accelerate. In addition, the impact of SDN and NFV-related performance managementefforts has yet to be felt.
The following sections of this report covers the products in detail solicited from participating vendors, including
specific positioning of products in the NPM and APM space. Please note that this is not intended to represent an
exhaustive list, rather it focuses on a select number of products and vendors that have established an early
position within the SDN and NFV markets for performance and applications performance manage.
These vendors were selected via surveys and polls by SDx readers; they were also identified during discussions
the SDxCentral research team had with enterprise and service provider users.
While every attempt has been made to validate the capabilities listed in the profiles, SDxCentral advises end
users to verify the veracity of each claim for themselves in their actual deployment environments. SDxCentral
cannot be held liable for unexpected operations, damages or incorrect operation due to any inaccuracies listedhere.
SDxCentral welcomes feedback and additional information from end users based on their real-world
experiences with the products and technologies listed. The SDxCentral Research Team can be reached at
The following are the vendors covered in the report: Accedian, AppDynamics, Arista Networks, Astellia,
BigPanda, Big Switch Networks, BMC, Brocade, CA Technologies, Cisco Systems, Corvil, Datadog, Dell,
Dynatrace, EXFO, ExtraHop, Gigamon, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Idera, InfoVista, InMon, Ixia, Juniper
Networks, Inc., Kentik, LiveAction, LogicMonitor, Microsoft, Nagios, Netmon, NetScout, New Relic, Niksun,
Oracle, Pluribus Networks, Polystar, Qosmos, Radware, Riverbed, Rocana, Sinefa, SolarWinds, Spirent, Splunk,
Viavi, Zoho
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CA Virtual Network Assurance aims to operationalize
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Application performance monitoring; Cloud servicesmonitoring across public, private, and hybrid clouds;
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Monitored Application Protocols
SNMP, HTTP, HTTPS, REST, TFTP, SOAP, TFTP, TCP,
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SNMP, Netflow, TWAMP, IPSLA, IPFIX, REST, IPDR via
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CA Virtual Network Assurance can discover, collect,
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CA Virtual Network Assurance interfaces through
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Container Infrastructure Integration
CA Virtual Network Assurance can reside incontainers as well as monitoring the processes of
containers running NFV.
Cloud Integration (Private, Public, Hybrid)
CA Virtual Network Assurance has flexible probes
to monitor private, public, and hybrid cloud systems
bringing together a single pane for comprehensive
analysis.
Service Chain Topology
Integrated NPM and APM
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Contrail(Click for Online Version)
www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/sdn/contrail/
1133 Innovation Way
Sunnyvale, California 94089 USA
888-JUNIPER (888-586-4737
www.juniper.ne
PUBLIC
JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC
Unique Value Proposition
Contrail Analytics, built on open APIs, provide
a seamless single logical view of the network in
one place. The analytics nodes are responsible for
the collection of system state information, usage
statistics, and debug information from all of thesoftware modules across all of the nodes of the
system. The analytics nodes store the data gathered
across the system in a database that is based on the
Apache Cassandra open source distributed database
management system. The database is queried by
means of an SQL-like language and representational
state transfer (REST) APIs. This data helps in
correlating underlay and overlay networks in the
datacenter.
Solution Demand
Cloud service providers, Financials, Government &
Education, Retail, Telecom
Product Areas/Functions
Cloud services monitoring across public, private, and
hybrid clouds; Load-balancing / application delivery
control, Real-time network monitoring, Response-time
analysis network, SDN analytics, SLA monitoring,
Server/Compute Monitoring
Pricing Model
Contact Juniper Networks at [email protected].
Monitored Application Protocols
Based on the TCP/UDP port, Contrail Analytics can
determine the application type and provide detailed
analysis of flows & traffic metrics. The northbound
Contrail Analytics APIs is open and schema-aware
APIs. The storage and retrieval of flows uses smartflow sampling, and all processing is horizontally
scalable. This enables responsive, real-time
and resource-efficient analysis. In addition, Contrail
Analytics collects and monitors
the following information:
Operational State , Alarms and Object Logs for
system object such as virtual machines, virtual
networks, service instances, BGP peers, routing
instances, and the like.
System log (syslog) messagesinformational and
debug messages generated by system software
components.
Trace messagesrecords of activities collectedlocally by software components and sent to
analytics nodes only on demand.
Container Infrastructure Integration
Contrail Analytics supports Kubernetes and Docker.
Maximum Scale
Contrail Analytics is horizontally scalable with
performance up to 100,000 messages per second per
analytics node.
Description of Company: Juniper Networks strives for solutions that give its customers true advantage over their
competition, whether thats bringing new, revenue-generating services to market in minutes versus months; or
reducing network costs; enabling smarter, more efficient business processes; providing security and protection
for their most valuable assets; or delivering a richer end-user experience.
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Description of Product(s):
Juniper Networks Contrail is a simple, open and agile Cloud Network Automation platform that implements secure
multitenancy and enables dynamic service chaining in private, public, and hybrid clouds. Contrail analytics provides
the right abstractions, aggregation, and syncing mechanisms to report and present information that can be used by
humans to operate and monitor a multi-tenant datacenter.
Contrail Analytics consists of two components:
1. An IDL for describing information that applications can send to Contrail Analytics, and C++ and Python
libraries for applications to do so.
2. An Analytics Engine that consumes information from applications, stores it, and presents it to clients via
the north-bound Contrail Analytics API.
Juniper Contrail Networking in SDxCentral Product Directory
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VCF Insight Analytics(Click for Online Version)
www.pluribusnetworks.com/products/network-performance-monitoring/
2455 Faber Place , Suite 100
Palo Alto, California 94303
1.650.289.4717
www.pluribusnetworks.com
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PLURIBUS NETWORKS
Company Size
51-200
Unique Value Proposition
Replaces Network Packet Brokers and Analysis tools
for the most common use cases. Reduces the cost of
network monitoring by up to 80% and can provide
application-level analysis to enable troubleshooting
and performance management of applications such
as HTTP, VDI, Hadoop and network storage.
Solution DemandFinancials, Government & Education, Healthcare, Retail
Product Areas/Functions
Application performance monitoring, Real-time
network monitoring, Response-time analysis
applications, Response-time analysis network, SDN
analytics
Monitored Application Protocols
VCF-Insight Analytics is aware of all popular TCP
applications. Including general purpose ones like
FTP and HTTP, as well as more modern apps such
as those for VDI, Hadoop as well as the Converged
Infrastructure suppliers like Nutanix.
Monitoring Standards Supported
sFlow, IPFIX
Maximum Scale
No known limit. Uses Elastic search technology to allow
instant navigation through BILLIONS of flows without
pause.
SDN and NFV integration
Works with any 10G/40G environment via the
deployment of inexpensive hardware aggregators
which connect to existing SPAN/MIRROR ports.
These aggregators monitor all packets and essentially
convert those packets into FLOWS, metadata is
added and then stored indefinitely. The User Interface
of VCF-IA allows interactive navigation through any
quantity of this stored information with interactive
performance. Directly connects to any Pluribus
networks already in place without any additionalhardware.
Container Infrastructure Integration
Any flow of information is monitored and the business
application is stored. Application can exist on a server
directly, in a VM or in a container. It is the flow of
information across the network that is monitored, not
just the raw packets.
Cloud Integration (Private, Public, Hybrid)
Any flow of information, where hardware aggregation
SPAN/MIRROR port access is available can be
monitored.
Pricing Model
Hardware aggregators at about $300/10G port, VCF-
Insight Analytics license starting at $25K for 100Million
flows.
URL for Licensing/Pricing Information
http://www.pluribusnetworks.com/products/vcf-
insight-analytics/
Description of Company: Pluribus Networks provides data center solutions that allow your business to run
unconstrained. Our software-defined, open networking, fabric-based solutions transform existing network
infrastructures into flexible and strategic assets fully aligned with todays digital business needs. Our Virtualization-
Centric Fabric (VCF) architecture provides unprecedented insight, agility and security to customers seeking to
simplify operations, run more cost effectively and bring new applications online faster.
Pluribus Networks in SDxCentral Company Directory
Description of Product(s):
VCF Insight Analytics is a monitoring solution intended to replace the most common deployment of packet brokers
and analysis tools. It provides an inexpensive means to monitor and track the performance of business application
flows of information, and can be used with or without existing Pluribus Networks based switching fabrics.
VCF Insight Analytics in SDxCentral Company Directory
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SkyLIGHT VCX Controller(Click for online version) SDxCentral Company Listing
Description of Product(s):
SkyLIGHT VCX Controller is the industrys first performance assurance controller employing Network Function
Virtualization (NFV) to bring advanced monitoring capabilities network-wide, without the need for expensive, high-end
test equipment. The VCX provides national scale, real-time performance monitoring using existing network elements as
part of the instrumentation, combining all the benefits of virtualization without compromising test speed or precision.
Unique Value Proposition Solution Demand
The SkyLIGHT VCX Controller offers enhanced network
performance, Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality
of Experience (QoE) visibilityat a fraction of the
cost of traditional solutions. Applications as diverse
as virtualized customer premises equipment (vCPE),
mobile network monitoring, and financial services
transaction assurance can all be implemented simply,
quickly, and ubiquitously.
Cloud Service Providers, Financials, Telecom
Product Areas/Functions
Protocol-level analysis, Real-time application monitoring,
Real-time network monitoring, SLA monitoring
Pricing Model
Standards-based reflectors (e.g. TWAMP) are used to
collect QoS metrics, and other standards-based and
patented techniques are used to augment collected
data to extract one-way performance metrics and
derive microsecond precision without requiring clock
synchronization between test points.
Customers
Telefonica (globally), Colt Technology Services, T-Mobile,
SK Telecom, Telecom Italia, CenturyLink
Aristas CloudVision Platform(Click for online version) SDxCentral Company Listing
Description of Product(s):The CloudVision platform is a software suite of services that deliver further operational simplification of the Arista physical
infrastructure. Arista CloudVision is a network-wide approach for workload orchestration and workflow automation as a
turnkey solution for cloud networking.
ACCEDIAN NETWORKS INChttps://accedian.com/
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Unique Value Proposition
Arista has pioneered the networking industry with its
software-defined cloud networking approach, built on
the programmable interfaces, publish-subscribe state
separation, resilient fault containment, and self-healing
attributes of Arista EOS. CloudVision extends the same
architectural approach of EOS across the network for
state, provisioning, change management, and visibility.Customers
https://www.arista.com/en/company/customer-
testimonials
Solution Demand
Cloud Service Providers, Financials, Government &
Education, Healthcare, IP Storage & Big Data, Media
Product Areas/Functions
Cloud services monitoring across public, private, and
hybrid clouds, Database diagnostics, Deep packet
inspection (DPI), Protocol-level analysis, Real-time
network monitoring, Response-time analysis network,
SDN analytics, SLA monitoring
Pricing Model
CloudVision is available as a software subscription via
the following two feature set offerings:
A CloudVision license (SKUs starting with SS-CV)
which includes all available CloudVision functionality.
A CloudVision Lite license (SKU starting with SS-
CV-LT) which includes a subset of CloudVision
functionality.
Pricing starts at $295/device per month.
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Big Monitoring Fabric(Click for online version) SDxCentral Company Listing
Description of Product(s):
Big Monitoring Fabric (BMF) is a modern 1G/10G/40G network visibility fabric that leverages high-performance, open
Ethernet switches to provide pervasive security monitoring and visibility of an organizations network traffic at ultra-low
CapEx/OpEx costs. Big Monitoring Fabric delivers feature parity with leading Network Packet Brokers, for 50% less. This
enables organizations of any size to tap every rack, and achieve pervasive network visibility - both East - West and North
- South.
Unified Visibility Fabric(C