As we close out last year and look towards 2022, the IBM SevOne Network Performance Management team wanted to take a moment to reflect on our growing momentum. Written by Jim Melvin View all blogs >> Over the years, IBM SevOne NPM has become the quiet giant in the world of service assurance for business-critical …
As carriers evolve their networks to support network function virtualization (NFV), it is critical they are able to monitor their networks whether they are on dedicated, high performance networks, virtualized cloud-based architectures, or a combination of both. The Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager is an integrated element/network management system that provides service-level visibility and assurance, …
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Software Defined Everything, or SDx as it’s known – it’s the virtualization of compute, network and storage resources combined with automation and orchestration systems. And, it’s helping today’s enterprises and communication service providers significantly accelerate the time to deliver new applications and services. Need a new VM? Click a button. Want more storage? Click again. …
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The hidden costs of multiple performance monitoring tools It’s easy to understand how tool sprawl happens. Putting in a new WAN? Get a performance management tool. Deploying a cutting edge Wi-Fi network across your campus? Get a different tool. Then merge with or acquire a company whose IT team took a similar approach and suddenly, …
You’re in Network Operations. The boss is on the phone, asking why the network isn’t operating. Do you have the information to confidently give an answer? Or, like so many others in your situation, are you forced to admit you aren’t sure? “I don’t know” is never an easy thing to say. But the complexity …
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There has been a dramatic shift in healthcare technology in recent years, thanks to a rapidly growing population, evolving technology trends and demand by providers and consumers for real-time information and support. This has led to a mass introduction of electronic health records (EHRs) and other electronic systems by healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs). Unfortunately, according …
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The ongoing adoption and consumption of cloud services presents performance monitoring challenges for IT departments. Whether you are automating the provisioning of virtual machines, networks, and storage in a private cloud, migrating your enterprise applications to a public cloud, or leveraging the growing set of Software, Platform, or Infrastructure as a Service models, your performance monitoring …
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Introduction Today’s Managed Service Providers (MSPs) face the common challenge of needing to grow revenue and reduce costs. But, unlike other environments where IT represents a business expense, MSPs make money by delivering managed IT services. This gives them a unique set of IT challenges and opportunities – including the chance to create additional revenue. …
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Cisco Network Monitoring Thanks to strong alliances with key players in the industry, SevOne NPM helps you get the most out of your infrastructure monitoring solution. Our long-standing relationship with Cisco Systems helps you leverage Cisco manageability interfaces to implement a performance visibility strategy that seamlessly meets changing business needs. The SevOne NPM monitors the …
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and its counterpart, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), have ushered in a new way of thinking about application and service delivery. Leading service providers and enterprises are now modeling their digital infrastructure, redundancy and scale-out patterns from Web-scale and DevOps companies, and applying the methods discovered in that world to SDN and NFV …
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