Visual Network Systems Complimentary On-Demand Webcast Series
From VoIP and MPLS, to Application Performance Management, to leveraging Cisco IP SLA's, Visual Network Systems has a on-demand webcast that will help you manage your network better. Our complimentary webcast series will cover all of these hot topics and many more. All it takes is a simple registration.
IT Management
Round Table Webcast with Forrester Research: Ensuring Business Services Delivery with Better Application Performance Management:
Network management teams today manage complex and dynamic IP networks that connect customers, vendors, and employees to information they require in order to accomplish their goals. Planning, implementing, monitoring and supporting these application services along with the underlying networks that deliver them are all key deliverables of Business Service Management, and have increased in importance because of the constant drive of organizations to use technology to meet their goals and objectives.
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Best Practices in Managing Infrastructure Upgrade Changes:
There are two types of changes that organizations must be prepared to manage, planned changes and unexpected events. Each has its own unique challenges and IT organizations should have a strategy in place to deal with both so that delivery of critical business services is not impacted and expected ROI for new investments is met. During this 60 minute webcast, Forrester Research and Fluke Networks touch on effective methods to manage change that include pre-deployment assessments, managing and monitoring during and after deployment, and post deployment optimization.
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Get out of Your Internal Silos to Bring More Value (and revenue) to Your Company:
Most IT organizations have a legacy of working in silos. The operations group, the applications group, the NOC, etc. The downside to this is that as network management teams mature from fault to performance-based management, the silo approach makes it difficult to efficiently deploy resources and isolate issues. Join Fluke Networks and Dr. Jim Metzler of Ashton Metzler & Associates, as we review strategies for elevating IT organizations to manage overall quality of service and critical applications for an organization Creating metrics and reports that can help to quantify ROI for new applications and technologies.
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Round Table Webcast with Forrester Research:
Get Better Results from Your IT Investments: In today’s environment, you need to get the most out of your assets and people… all the while serving the strategic needs of your business and dealing with growth and acquisition issues. In addition, it is critically important to quantify results of those investments for leadership and accurately track service level agreements. This round-table webcast on this topic includes Q&A and a discussion with Rob Whiteley, Sr. Analyst for Forrester Research and Matt Gowarty, Sr. Product Manager with Fluke Networks.
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Ensuring ROI for Cost-Saving IT Projects
Utilizing Pre and Post Deployment WAN Acceleration Assessments to Validate ROI
In order to keep costs in check while ensuring acceptable levels of service, IT departments are commonly turning to point or distributed shaping, compression and acceleration solutions in lieu of adding costly bandwidth. But, one step that is commonly overlooked when investigating proprietary acceleration technologies is an independent assessment to quantify the perceived benefits and validate the expected ROI.
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Quickly and Efficiently Creating Reports for Billback or Chargeback Projects
If you are considering or currently deploying a billback or chargeback project, have you considered the granular and rich information that’s needed to create billback reports may already be available to you?
In order to keep costs in check while ensuring acceptable levels of service, IT departments are commonly turning to point or distributed shaping, compression and acceleration solutions in lieu of adding costly bandwidth. But, one step that is commonly overlooked when investigating proprietary acceleration technologies is an independent assessment to quantify the perceived benefits and validate the expected ROI. During this 30 minute webcast we review solutions that can store and report on every application conversation within every department and location.
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Managing Data Center Consolidation and Application Virtualization
With so many data center consolidation projects on fast-track implementation schedules, many IT professionals are struggling to bridge the gap. Two key components of a successful consolidation project are cross-domain collaboration and virtualization of applications. During this webcast, we'll share how you can take advantage of NetFlow technology-already available in the infrastructure-to more quickly deploy projects, manage a virtualized environment and increase cross-domain communications, thus helping IT become better aligned with overall business objectives.
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Security and Regulatory Compliance Utilizing NetFlow Technology
Throughout the IT ecosystem, security is consistently top of mind. It affects every person and resource that has a view into the enterprise as effective security is an integral inseparable component of all IT projects. NetFlow, a technology already embedded and available in most routers and switches, can provide a cost-effective and scalable means of identifying malicious intrusions, verifying security compliances for projects, and providing the information security dashboards required throughout the enterprise.
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Leveraging the Infrastructure of Your Cisco Network for Performance Management
Cisco WAAS - An Overview and Methods to Help You Prove and Quantify the Value Being Delivered to Your Business.
Join us for this webcast where we’ll share a technical overview of WAAS and the integration with Fluke Networks Systems solution, which provides full visibility into the before and after impact of deploying Cisco WAAS—both in terms of bandwidth usage and end-user response time.
Additionally, Fluke Networks Visual Performance Manager™ provides holistic, enterprise-wide views for the line of business owner, along with automatic performance baselines and transaction-level details for Operations and Network Engineers.
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Cisco WAAS - Quantifying the Performance Gains and Proving the Value in Your Environment
Faced with an urgent need to do more with less, IT organizations worldwide are implementing, evaluating, or recommending WAN optimization and application acceleration solutions. However, faced with today’s economic reality there are critical questions that must be answered before any investment in technology will be approved. Join this Fluke Networks webcast featuring Cisco and Forrester as we review new ways to measure the effectiveness of WAAS for each optimized application or site, all the way down to the individual users and transactions.
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Managing Data Center Changes Using Cisco IOS NetFlow
As a growing number of enterprises expand and reshape the identity of the data center, the need to understand resource utilization and application traffic patterns is becoming more important than ever before. In this changing environment, NetFlow once again is proving its value in providing needed visibility. During this one-hour round table discussion, our panelists provide an overview of NetFlow and the latest features in NetFlow, including egress NetFlow, multicast support and Flexible NetFlow as it applies to the datacenter environment.
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Leveraging Capabilities in Your Existing Cisco Network to Effectively Manage Application Performance from Data Center to WAN:
Join Cisco, Nemertes and Fluke Networks for this unique, round-table format webcast. The panelists discuss how to leverage your infrastructure's existing capabilities and data sources such as Cisco IOS, IP SLAs and NetFlow to manage application performance.
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Leveraging Capabilities in Your Existing Cisco Network for Optimized Performance and Troubleshooting:
Join Cisco, Yankee Group and Fluke Networks for this unique, round-table format webcast that includes Scott Van de Houten, Cisco Product Manager, Zeus Kerravala, Vice-President, with Yankee Group, and Ward Cobleigh, Business Development Director, Fluke Networks. The speakers provide their perspectives on trends, issues and products for managing and optimizing network performance with existing resources. This hour-long session, moderated by Mike Fratto, Managing Editor for Information Week, includes a lengthy Q&A session, with the panel.
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What is Netflow and How Does NetFlow Tracker Help?
Do you worry about viruses, hacking, worms, multicasting, and bandwidth consumed by P2P programs? Do you have real-time visibility over your entire network so you can track, troubleshoot and report on all activity? NetFlow Tracker utilizes the capabilities already inherent in your network infrastructure, including NetFlow, IPFIX, jFlow and sFlow for complete visibility into all of your network traffic.
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Leveraging the Infrastructure of Your Nortel Network for Performance Management
Using Capabilities Already in Your Nortel Network for Troubleshooting, Reporting and Forensics:
This webcast is a unique opportunity to listen to Nortel and Fluke Networks representatives discuss the value of IPFIX. Bill Lane, Nortel Product Manager and Ward Cobleigh, Fluke Networks Business Development Director discuss how to leverage your existing hardware for troubleshooting, reporting and forensic analysis utilizing the IPFIX and IPSLA capabilities already on your network.
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Application Performance
Get down to the underlying “Why” of Application Performance Problems
Join Forrester Research and Fluke Networks Systems for this webcast where we talk about not only why it’s important to get to root cause of Application Performance problems, but to understand the underlying reasons for why an issue occurred to begin with.
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Ensuring Business Services Delivery with Better 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 for this webcast and learn more about how Application Performance can affect overall delivery of Business Services and how Visual Performance Manager™ can help.
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Managing Application Performance and Moving Beyond “It’s Not the Network!”
In today’s environment, organizations need high performing and available networks and constantly need to improve performance while maximizing ROI and reducing costs. And the environment is always changing - applications, infrastructure, data center, acquisitions, etc. So where do you start to get a handle on things so you can manage user quality of experience?
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Monitoring & Improving Application Performance across your Company:
Application slowdowns, bottlenecks, response time issues - whatever you call them, are among the most challenging issues for IT organizations to monitor, resolve and prevent from happening again. During this webcast, we will review methods and strategies for resolving all of these issues.
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Effectively Manage Application Performance using Visual Performance Manager:
Enterprise wide performance problems have become so difficult to pinpoint that IT Managers must call upon their most seasoned network engineers to sift through reams of data to determine the cause of application performance. During this webcast, we'll share examples of how Visual Performance Manager can solve many of these issues efficiently and reduce the finger pointing.
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Correlating granular network and application visibility for improved performance:
IT organizations today are facing more challenges than they have in the past decade. Migration to MPLS, more mission-critical applications, VoIP and video deployments and workforces moving away from headquarters. The cost of degradation and downtime of applications is growing exponentially for most organizations. This webcast will focus on how to measure quality of experience, and understanding how application performance can be impacted by the network and vice-versa.
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Managing VoIP & MPLS
Understanding the Impact of Change for MPLS Networks:
Many organizations are migrating to IP-based networking including MPLS to improve overall application performance through any-to-any connectivity and service prioritization. During this webcast, we will show you have to understand the impact of change for MPLS-based networks.
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Managing VoIP across the WAN:
Having a strategic plan in place for VoIP performance management with visibility from edge-to-core throughout your VoIP lifecycle is imperative to managing a network successfully. This informative web cast is an in-depth discussion on Managing VoIP across the WAN with Visual UpTime Select. We will cover the issues and challenges that arise when managing VoIP across a WAN-based network.
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VoIP & MPLS - Making It Work For Your Company:
MPLS-based networks and VoIP are two of the hottest topics for networking professionals worldwide. In this webcast we will highlight how pre-assessment and post-deployment visibility can help enterprises understand the impacts of VoIP and MPLS and how to deploy successfully.
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Understanding Private IP/MPLS Based Networks:
Over the past several years, service providers have been rolling out private IP/MPLS-based network options for their customers. We will show you the benefits of private IP and how performance management with Visual UpTime Select can help you optimize the benefits associated with private IP while limiting the challenges of migrating.
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A Case Study - A Real Life Scenario of Migrating to an MPLS-Based Network:
When it comes to deploying an MPLS-based network as the primary WAN services, many enterprises have concerns and fears whether they are just considering an MPLS deployment or are trying to manage the new private IP VPN connectivity across the entire enterprise. We walk through a real-life case study for an organization of over 200 locations that recently migrated from a frame relay and ATM infrastructure to an MPLS-based networking solution.
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