Software - 1. - Upgrade to Visual Performance Manager 7.0
Version 7.0 is the current version of Visual Performance Manager for all server appliance types: VPM, NPA, and APA. To upgrade to version 7.0 our technical support staff will set up a time with you to help you through the upgrade process and supply the required software. Visit our Visual...
White Paper - 2011 Application & Delivery Handbook Part I
As we enter the next era of Application Delivery, leading IT organizations must focus on improving their ability to ensure acceptable application and service delivery. Throughout this handbook, Ashton, Metzler and Associates looks at how to ensure applications and services that an enterprise uses...
White Paper - 2011 Application & Delivery Handbook Part II
As we enter the next era of Application Delivery, leading IT organizations must focus on improving their ability to ensure acceptable application and service delivery. Throughout this handbook, Ashton, Metzler and Associates looks at how to ensure applications and services that an enterprise uses...
White Paper - 2011 Application & Delivery Handbook Part III
As we enter the next era of Application Delivery, leading IT organizations must focus on improving their ability to ensure acceptable application and service delivery. Throughout this handbook, Ashton, Metzler and Associates looks at how to ensure applications and services that an enterprise uses...
White Paper - 2011 Application & Delivery Handbook Part IV
As we enter the next era of Application Delivery, leading IT organizations must focus on improving their ability to ensure acceptable application and service delivery. Throughout this handbook, Ashton, Metzler and Associates looks at how to ensure applications and services that an enterprise uses...
White Paper - 2011 Cloud Networking Report - Part I
Executive Summary - The Emergency of Cloud Computing and Cloud Networking The 2011 Cloud Networking Report, authored and published by Dr. Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Assoc, is published in a five part series. This first section covers the emergence of cloud computing and networking and...
White Paper - 2011 Cloud Networking Report - Part II
Part II - The Emerging Data Center LAN The 2011 Cloud Networking Report, authored and published by Dr. Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Assoc, is published in a five part series. Part two covers the emerging Data Center LAN, first and second generation Data Center LAN's as well as the...
White Paper - 2011 Cloud Networking Report - Part III
Part III - The Wide Area Network (WAN) The 2011 Cloud Networking Report, authored and published by Dr. Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Assoc, is published in a five part series. This third section covers a background on WAN services, optimizing the performance of IT ...
White Paper - 2011 Cloud Networking Report - Part IV
Part IV - The Managment of Cloud Computing The 2011 Cloud Networking Report, authored and published by Dr. Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Assoc, is published in a five part series. Section four covers the importance of cloud computing, the evolving mangement environment and...
Video - An Introduction to VPM Connex
VPM Connex supports bi-directional exchange of data with third party enterprise management systems to support automation of process workflow, provide intelligence for decision support, and to automate configuration management.
White Paper - Building an ROI: Application and Network Performance Management
Introduction Enterprises of all types and sizes – across a wide array of vertical markets – are increasingly relying on the network and the applications that traverse it for organizational efficiency and business productivity. Consider these examples: A global conglomerate rolls out an...
Webcast - Business Service Delivery Through Improved Application Performance Management
Application Performance Management is a crucial component of any Business Service Management initiative. The core focus of network management should be to detect meaningful application performance issues, before these affect the end-users and therefore overall Business Service Management. Join us...
Video - Capacity Planning & Management
Utilizing Visual Performance Manager for Capacity Planning and Management
White Paper - Cisco and Visual Network Systems: Implement an End-to-End APM Solution
In today’s economy, IT departments are challenged to decide whether to deploy a distributed or a centralized infrastructure. Distributed infrastructure offers the appeal of increased employee productivity and performance, but it requires significantly higher capital expenditures (CapEx) and...
Video - Cisco Live 2011 Supersession
Watch the Cisco Live 2011 Supersession - Cloud and Virtualization, From Theory and Hype to Real and Practical.
White Paper - Complete Solutions for Effective WAN Service-Level Management
Visual Performance Manager provides an independent, third-party monitoring and measurement view into key service-level metrics needed to track service-level agreement compliance on wide-area network links. Its display of round-trip delay, throughput and availability statistics is timely and...
Webcast - Effectively Creating Reports for Billback or Chargeback Projects
If you are considering or currently deploying a billback or chargeback project, have you considered that the granular and rich information that’s needed to create billback reports may already be available to you? Join us for this webcast as we review solutions that can store and report on...
White Paper - EMA Impact Brief - OmniPoint Element
EMA Reviews the recent release of Visual Network Systems OmniPoint Element and the benefit to organizations working in a Cloud Environment.  
White Paper - Enterprise Management Associates Report - How BSM is Evolving Technically and Politically
Business Service Management (BSM) can be a rallying cry in certain IT organizations, just as it can be a source of confusion or even a negative term in others. But BSM does have distinctive and valuable roots which evolved beyond Service Level Management (SLM) to reflect a more process-centric way...
White Paper - Fluke Networks launches new network and application performance business:
On June 28, 2010, Fluke Networks announced the creation and launch of a new operating entity within the Danaher family – Visual Network Systems. The new group will take enterprise-class performance monitoring technologies for networks and applications from the Fluke Networks product portfolio...
Video - Get Proactive Notification of Degradation of End-User Response Times
Proactive Notification - Receive proactive notification as end-user response times begin to degrade at one remote site. Automated, time-correlated analysis of a spike in network utilization reveals the cause and effect impact of unwanted traffic on the end-user quality of experience and potential...
Video - Get to Root Cause of Application Performance Issues in Just 3 Clicks
Go from problem notification to root cause in three clicks - Unlike traditional performance management methods that can take hours to locate the cause of a slowdown, Visual Network Systems approach lets users quickly drill down to the level of individual transactions in order to pinpoint the reason...
Video - How Do you Deal with the Growing Demands on your IT Infrastructure?
Over the past decade, we have witnessed an explosion in the size and complexity of application infrastructures. This complexity leaves us in a world where performance problems typically ride a cycle that leads to little or no resolution at all. Meanwhile the end- user is stuck in and endless,...
White Paper - Independent Case Study: Understanding Application Performance from the Outside In
Forrester Research Inc. reviews an example of how a large, distributed retail bank addressed challenges with service delivery and quality in this September, 2011 Case Study. The IT team assessed its application support team and realized that there were many opportunities for...
Video - Learn How to Justify Your Investment in Cisco WAAS in 60 seconds
Visual Performance Manager, the Application Performance Appliance, and Cisco IOS NetFlow are used to prove the value being delivered by Cisco WAAS in just 1 minute.
White Paper - Managing Virtualization within Data Center Consolidation
At first look, consolidating data centers should make managing and monitoring performance easier because the infrastructure and IT organizations are more centralized. However, there are new challenges that can impact overall service quality within a consolidated environment – cross-domain...
White Paper - Manufacturing IT Service Operation: Calculating the Impacts of Poor Application Performance
You know application performance issue are impacting your organization. But how do you quantify that impact on the company? Trying to create a calculator that perfectly reflects your organization’s environment is probably not worth the effort. Just for starters, your calculator is likely to...
White Paper - Meet the challenge to deliver outstanding end user experience
IT faces an increasingly complex and difficult challenge in today’s business environment such as how to deliver high quality, business services to end users while coping with changing technology and complexity. Application diversity, scope of infrastructure and speed of change all present...
White Paper - Migrating to an MPLS-based/Private IP Network: Are you ready?
With the increased reliance on business-critical applications, enterprises are considering MPLS-based private IP networks to improve performance with class-of-service prioritization and any-to-any connectivity. This white paper will discuss the benefits associated with private IP networks as well...
Video - NetFlow Tracker Demonstration
Visual Network Systems NetFlow Tracker provides unparalleled analysis of your network traffic because it stores the full flow detail on every single conversation. We don't make decisions on your behalf as to what data should be kept. Here's an example of how having access to all the flows is a...