Network Of Network Emerge(Again)

The networking world will always be on high and had a propensity to get carried away with new trends and technologies.  While many of these technologies are simply re-inventions with new names, which not recall focusing on the basics of efficiently running a business network. Make sure that the network resides in the physical shared offices, some other data center, public or private cloud is mainly irrelevant.

What is important is to see is again a great task for the companies, but it is always suggestible to take of new, relevant technologies that help you improve the networking beyond where it is today.

Here are some examples of these technologies.

Next generation network monitoring

UK motoring firm the AA is using Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DC RUM), which is a network performance management system which will help you to ensure the stability of its network. such products enable the organizations to passively collect data about the traffic on its network, automatically discovering all applications, servers, and clients. While this data provides visibility into how the users interact with the web and enterprise applications that are used to deliver the AA’s services to its customers. This gives your firm the ability to identify how the performance of the underlying network infrastructure that supports its applications is affecting the overall experience for users, thereby guaranteeing service availability for its customers.

Cloud Virtualization

Cloud virtualization has been a central point for the convergence of networking and storage. The biggies include- Cisco, Dell, IBM, EMC, and HP have all been majorly involved, and has been plenty of activities beyond these incumbents.

However, the factors in the cloud and virtualization combination are from virtualized hardware to software systems. we can look at some of the examples, Avery -  has just introduced a virtual NAS product which provides the ability to deploy and scale compute in the cloud while using both on-premises and cloud based storage resources. The idea is to join the dots between the compute cloud, storage cloud, and on-premises storage, with no sacrificing performance, worrying about security or seeing IT overspend. This is a software product that runs in the computer cloud alongside to the applications providing low-latency access to the active data and enabling applications to run at maximum performance.

Traditional Tools go Current

While another transitioning technology is the application delivery controller (ADC). According to CTO of ADC provider jet Nexus, Greg Howett, gone are the days when these appliances were all hardware devices, designed to be configured and managed by expert systems engineers.

Re Managing the networks

The changing shape of the corporate networks has meant a change in the way it is managed, with performance and application management becoming increasingly prevalent. Network management is being re-invented. For instance, Sideband Networks’ XRE/VXRE system for network performance management correlates live traffic with logged network traffic, giving a single point of management regardless of wired/wireless or local area network LAN/wide area network WAN characteristics. The system provides analytics of network traffic up to 40Gbps, addressing both physical and virtual planes, and delivers intelligence that notifies with real-time alerts and actions for network issues. So it combines being a dynamic network discovery tool for network mapping with the ability to drill down into the network performance.