Performance Management White Papers
Our white papers are designed to help you gain a better understanding of relevant industry issues and how SevOne helps you address them with our leading application-aware network performance management solution.
Complete Visibility: Converging Performance Monitoring for Advanced Services & Infrastructures
Network operators face daunting challenges in keeping up with growth and complexity within the managed environment – a situation aggravated by IT transformations towards service-centric operations that ratchet up demands for high performing, flawlessly available networks. This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) whitepaper reviews the demands and requirements for integrated performance management in light of current major trends and evaluates how the most recent release of SevOne’s performance monitoring solution aligns with those needs. 
Ensuring Superior Quality of Experience for Enterprise IP Telephony
Complete visibility of performance is essential for IT operations teams tasked with deploying and managing IP telephony, VoIP and video. These real-time applications are sensitive to latency, jitter and packet loss, and call for an integrated performance management system to ensure quality of experience and network availability for all services.This whitepaper examines the challenges faced by enterprises in assessing network readiness, call quality, IP phone availability and network performance when converging voice, data and video onto a single network infrastructure.
Cisco IP SLA Management Application Note
Network Operations teams need to continuously ensure that the network is capable of supporting key business applications that serve the business. This includes being able to verify service guarantees, increase network reliability by validating network performance, and proactively identify network issues. Cisco IP SLAs uses active monitoring to generate traffic in a continuous, reliable, and predictable manner, enabling the measurement of network performance and health. Leveraging this technology within a network performance management system allows the operations team to utilize the network to verify performance when access to end-user response data is not available.
Assuring Ethernet Backhaul Performance
With the demand for Ethernet backhaul booming, the need for effective performance monitoring has increased as more and more providers seek to deliver this vital traffic. Their ability to ensure high-quality transport services and being able to deliver Service Level Agreements to their customers are both key differentiators.This whitepaper looks at the challenges for carriers offering Ethernet backhaul in meeting the performance expectations demanded by service providers, businesses and end users, against a backdrop of exploding growth in traffic, devices and applications.
Using Speed at Scale to Ensure Performance for Financial Services
Virtualization, cloud computing, and network convergence call for a fresh approach to network performance management in the financial services, retail banking, and insurance sectors. Technical innovations continue to drive investments for progressive players looking to maintain or even increase their competitive edge.This whitepaper examines the ever-increasing need for speed at scale, proactive analysis, and higher levels of accessibility, granularity and visibility, as IT managers strive to ensure uptime and rapid response in business-critical networks and customer-facing networks.
Monitoring 4G LTE and IMS Performance at Scale
IMS and 4G LTE deliver the next-generation of broadband mobile services. The use of multiple technologies and an exponential rise in network elements calls for a next-generation performance management platform supporting the scale, real-time visibility and rapid response demanded by wireless carriers as commercial LTE services come on-line. This whitepaper examines the challenges in achieving an end-to-end view of IMS and LTE network performance and service availability.
Using NetFlow for Real-Time Network Performance Management
Network managers must constantly balance the need to maximize network resources with the ability to foresee any potential negative performance impacts on critical business applications. This white paper describes the unique strengths of the SevOne Netflow solution and its integration with SNMP monitoring for providing real-time performance management, troubleshooting, and network reporting for a fraction of the cost of a traditional packet inspection-based system.
Ten Key Factors For Selecting a Network Performance Management Solution
Selecting the right network performance management solution can be a very challenging exercise because there are many network elements to monitor and many alternative solutions from which to choose. With this in mind, here are the many key factors that organizations need to consider when selecting a network performance management solution.
The Mandate for More Effective Application Performance Management
Managing application performance is increasing in both importance and in difficulty and this presents a mandate to IT managers. That mandate is to ensure that their organization is continually getting better at managing application performance. This article also discusses the functionality that IT managers should demand be part of an application performance management tool in order for them to successfully respond to this mandate.
The Business Case to Rethink Performance
Today’s enterprise networks have evolved into highly complex systems dependent on the reliable performance of thousands of interconnected applications and devices. In the event that any one of those variables degrades or fails, the performance of the business itself is in jeopardy. While many companies are aware of the problem, they rely on tools that cannot scale to handle their entire network.