A Technology Partnership Agreement has been created between Kratos Networks, a premier provider of network monitoring and management solutions, and Nastel Technologies, a premier global provider of application performance monitoring and business transaction performance, to integrate Nastel's AutoPilot M6 technology with Kratos' NeuralStar (News - Alert) and dopplerVUE network event management products.
IT managers, through the resulting solutions, will be offered sophisticated Application-Aware Network Performance Management, a seamless, 360-degree view of their IT infrastructure -- hardware, applications and services.
A constellation of Web-based, mobile and network-centric applications across sophisticated, security-conscious network configurations that combine physical, virtual and cloud-based servers and resources, is deployed by today's IT environments. The stovepipe management disciplines that have traditionally separated router performance from cybersecurity from application availability are defied by these topologies. Together, Kratos and Nastel will provide that integrated view at the right levels, scope and scale.
The solutions will include products for both enterprise and mid-sized networks, achieved by integrating Nastel's AutoPilot M6 with two Kratos products -- NeuralStar, a "manager of managers" and event integration platform for enterprises and distributed networks; and dopplerVUE, a business-class monitoring solution that brings enterprise grade management features to networks of any size.
AutoPilot, Nastel's application performance management solution, ensures the availability and performance of critical business applications via auto discovery, business transaction management, real-time monitoring, dynamic dashboards, complex event processing, application performance analysis, root cause analysis, proactive alerting and automated problem resolution.
To guarantee high application performance, service level agreement compliance, reduced user impact, fewer incidents, lower costs and greater productivity, the customers in the line of business, development and IT utilize AutoPilot.
A real-time, end-to-end view of the performance and availability of all network, application, server, services and business transactions in dynamic, customizable dashboards are provided by the integrated product sets. IT managers can use the combined solutions to:
Troubleshoot and isolate the root cause of problems between the network, applications and servers
Predict potential IT failures and latency problems and take proactive action to avoid them
Filter alerts and warnings across network and application domains
Automatically resolve many IT issues without human involvement
These capabilities enable workload consolidation for organizations seeking to reduce costs, as well as efficiency gains, improved experience for end-users, reduced latency and higher productivity.
"Nastel is at the cutting edge of advanced applications monitoring," said Phil Carrai, president of Kratos Technologies, in a press release. "Integrating our respective capabilities gives our customers unparalleled visibility into their environments and user services. Through a single 'pane of glass' they can manage, troubleshoot and remediate IT problems quickly before they can cause a real hardship to the organization."
"We are pleased to partner with Kratos in offering a solution combining AutoPilot, our award winning business transaction management and application performance monitoring solution, integrated with Kratos' industry leading NeuralStar and dopplerVUE network event management products," said David Mavashev, CEO of Nastel Technologies, in a press release. "The combined solution will deliver a rapid return on investment by reducing the mean time-to-know about problems spanning the network and applications. This will enable our joint customers to meet their service level agreements, mitigate risk and deliver superior service."
In related news, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, a San Diego, Calif.-based National Security Solutions provider, was awarded an $8 million services contract by the U.S. Navy.
Deepika Mala is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
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