Network Instruments' 2006-08 News
01/04/2008
IT-Director.com: An emerging network management headache: analysing ever-faster networks
Sniffer cannot yet cope with 10Gb Ethernet in real-time. The product nearest to achieving this at present is from Network Instruments.
• Read Article
01/04/2008
ComputerWeekly.com: How network managers deal with network slowdowns affecting application performance
Over the last two years, while IT teams purchased new tools to optimise applications and traffic, the amount of time spent troubleshooting performance problems increased
• Read Article
31/03/2008
Silicon.com: Is your network performance getting you down?
IT teams are dedicating increasing amounts of time on getting to the bottom of network performance issues. The research found performance problems are rising, with more than two-thirds of respondents spending between 25 and 50 days per year determining the cause of network issues.
• Read Article
31/3/2008
Network Managers Spend 25 Days Per Year Diagnosing Performance Issues
Annual State of the Network Global Study from Network Instruments reveals serious network analysis issues for three-quarters of respondents
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
27/03/2008
ITWeek: Network management increasingly challenging
“Research indicates application performance problems are on the rise. These problems will continue to grow as companies implement new technologies and applications on their networks, without the necessary visibility into them.”
• Read Article
23/1/2008
Network Instruments® 47 Per cent Growth Outpaces Industry
Comprehensive analysis offerings drive thirteenth consecutive year of double-digit growth
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
10/12/2007
ITWeek: Rivals enhance their admin suites
"Link Analyst is focused on infrastructure and is an active system for querying devices. New in Link Analyst 5 is the ability to put devices into named groups and then to monitor and report on both software and hardware on a group basis."
• Read Article
21/11/2007
TechWorld.com: New net admin tools focus on the business
"Network Instruments released Link Analyst 5, which polls and identifies network devices to assess your network infrastructure's availability and performance. This latest version allows this assessment to be done by business process or department, and also tracks changes."
• Read Article
14/11/2007
PC Pro: Product Reviews: Network Instruments Observer 12
When we last reviewed Network Instruments' Observer, we praised its comprehensive range of monitoring and analysis tools. It's now even better.
• Read Article
14/11/2007
Network Instruments® Link Analyst® Ensures Network Availability and Performance
Link Analyst 5 ties performance reporting to business functions, manages infrastructure availability, and monitors network assets
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
8/10/07
IT Week: An acute observer of LAN behaviour
The Observer 12 graphical user interface (GUI) has evolved gracefully over time and we found it an easy and powerful system. Observer 12 is suitable for any size or enterprise that is looking for a comprehensive system for monitoring and troubleshooting network-attached hardware and applications.
• Read Article
2/10/2007
Network Instruments Designated “Avaya Compliant”
Solutions rated for interoperability with Avaya optimise VoIP network performance
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
2/10/2007
Network Instruments Observer Offers New Features for Network Troubleshooting and Reporting
Version 12.1 organises application monitoring around business activities and provides enhanced VoIP reporting
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
2/10/2007
Network Instruments to Speak at IP07
Ian Cummins, director of European sales for Network Instruments, will be appearing at IP07 in Earls Court on 17 October, to discuss the merits of Retrospective Network Analysis tools in one of the five free education seminars that are central to IP07.
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
21/8/2007
Organisations Lack Ability to Investigate Compliance Violations and Network Security Breaches
Half of Organisations Doubt Ability to Ensure Compliance
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
29/6/07
Computerweekly.com: Firms struggle with network troubleshooting
Half of network professionals responding to a survey carried out by Network Instruments said they were unsure whether performance problems were caused by the network or by applications.
• Read Article
7/6/07
theregister.co.uk: Aardman picks Observer for net monitoring
From Aardman's head of IT, Howard Arnault-Ham,"We have an incredible volume of bandwidth-intensive applications shared across a complex environment. I knew Observer was user-friendly and extremely reliable and therefore had no hesitation in recommending it to the management team."
• Read Article
17/6/2007
Network Instruments Launches 48 TB GigaStor Expandable
For Network, Application, and Security Forensics
Largest Retrospective Network Analysis Solution Scales
To Meet Expanding Network Recording Need
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
5/7/2007
Wallace and Gromit Creators Standardise on Network Instruments’ Observer® for Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Open Reality helps Aardman Animations take a proactive approach to network optimisation
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
28/6/2007
Survey Highlights Inability to Solve Network Problems as Chief Concern Among IT Directors
Organisations Lack Information Necessary to Troubleshoot and Determine Cause of Network Problems
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
26/6/2007
NEC Standardises Network Assessment Practices on Network Instruments® Solutions
NEC uses award-winning GigaStor™ Portable to benchmark and troubleshoot VoIP deployments
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
18/6/2007
Network Instruments’ Aggregator nTAPs Provide Greater Visibility Into
Full-Duplex Traffic than SPAN Ports
Aggregator nTAPs address customers’ need for deploying security and analysis devices on full-duplex links
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
15/5/2007
Network Instruments® GigaStor™ Portable Provides CSI On The Fly
First Portable Retrospective Analysis Solution Integrates Network, Application, and Security Forensics
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
12/4/2007
Silicon.com: Network horror stories expose need for understanding
As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they should be. Here Will Sturgeon exposes just how wrong it can go and asks leading industry figures to light the way towards effective network management.
• Read Article
19/3/2007
Network World: What you can learn watching network traffic
The company, which features Observer software, probe appliances and its GigaStor data collection devices, recently overhauled Observer and updated other products with enhanced capabilities, proving the company wants to become essential to network managers' day-to-day practices.
• Read Article
14/3/2007
Windows IT Pro: Network Instruments Gives a Clear View
Aside from more standard practices, IT managers need an analyzer that will let them reduce the number of countless hours spent trying to identify intermittent network problems. In crowded network-analysis field, the best way for a product to stand above the competition is to provide a single, consolidated viewpoint from which to monitor multiple network sources and probes. Such a product is Network Instruments' very scalable Observer 12 network-analysis software.
• Read Article
12/3/2007
IT Week: Appliance does detective work
Network Instruments last week launched Observer 12, the latest version of its enterprise network troubleshooting package, which boasts new functionality for monitoring network performance, plus tools to help firms address compliance issues and police multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) service- level agreements. UK sales director Ian Cummins said Observer 12 benefits from a dedicated reporting system running on a “turnkey” appliance.
• Read Article
12/3/2007
eWeek: Network Instruments Adds Security Forensics
Network analysis vendor Network Instruments on March 12 launched a new version of its Observer packet capture and analysis line that allows users to see exactly what happened in a security breach. The Minneapolis company leveraged the ability in its Gigastor network analyzer to capture and retain large amounts of data on actual network traffic to identify security breaches and then determine the source and time of the breaches.
• Read Article
12/3/2007
Computer Business Review Online: Network Instruments Adds MPLS and Packet Correlation to Observer
Protocol analysis vendor Network Instruments LLC will today announce the new version of the firmware for both its real-time and retrospective tools, adding support for MPLS networking and the ability to locate a transaction problem, not least for monitoring SLAs with WAN service providers.
• Read Article
12/3/2007
Network Instruments® GigaStor™ Provides Comprehensive Security Forensics
Retrospective Analysis Identifies Thousands of Network Attacks and Anomalies
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
12/3/2007
Network Instruments® Delivers Enterprise-Wide Reporting with Observer® Reporting Server
New Version of Observer Introduces High-Level Reporting, Security Forensics, MPLS Analysis, Expansion of VoIP and Application Analysis, IPv6 Support, and SSL/SSH Decryption
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
22/1/2007
Network Instruments® Achieves 1,000th Healthcare Customer Milestone
Retrospective network analysis solutions continue to fuel sales expansion
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
16/1/2007
Network Instruments’ Strong Growth Continues at 26 Per cent for 2006
GigaStor™ Drives Fifth Consecutive Year of More Than 24 Per cent Revenue Growth
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
15/1/2007
Network Instruments® GigaStor™ Receives Internet Telephony® Magazine’s 2006 Product of the Year Award
GigaStor Recognised for Outstanding Innovation
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
12/2006
ComNews.com: Use network analyzers for virus and hack security
Devices augment other security solutions and provide reporting and alerting functions.Organizations need additional tools to identify and remedy security breaches as they occur. A network analyzer can detect both known and unknown attacks and can increase an organization’s cleanup process efficiency.
• Read Article
18/12/2006
Network Instruments® Launches Aggregator nTAP™ to Manage Higher Utilization Spikes on Full-Duplex Links
New nTAPs’ industry-leading 512 MB buffer compatible with all leading security and management tools
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
14/12/2006
IT Week: Packet analysis delves into history
Network Instruments and NetQoS are developing a unified network monitoring solution that will allow administrators to drill down on retrospective network events and perform root cause analysis on problems that have occurred up to 10 days previously on average.
• Read Article
13/12/2006
IDC Event Flash: Network Instruments and NetQoS Partner
The announcement builds on Network Instruments' RNA positioning and successes. NetQoS builds on the RNA information with its ability to identify the source of the application, server, and network performance problems, and to automatically launch investigations that gather diagnostic information specific to the issue via its SuperAgent product.
• Read Flash (PDF)
5/12/2006
Network Instruments® and NetQoS® Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver Network Performance Monitoring and Retrospective Network Analysis™
New solution speeds time to resolution by quickly identifying network degradations enterprise-wide and drilling down to root causes through historical analysis
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
5/12/2006
Network Instruments® Announces Support for Microsoft® Windows Vista™
Observer® Product Family First Analysis Solution to Support Vista Platform
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
30/11/2006
Network headaches to avoid this holiday season
End of the year budgeting decisions, annual network performance reviews, reduced staff-it's no wonder the holiday season can end up being a great distraction rather than a welcome relief in the eyes of a network administrator.
• Read Article
3/10/2006
Network Instruments® Expands GigaStor™ Drive Capacity to Capture 12 Terabytes of Data
Network analysis and forensic recorder offers industry’s largest data capture
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
20/9/2006
Computerwire: Network Instruments Offers End-to-End 10Gb
Network Instruments LLC has announced 10Gb Ethernet support on its Observer protocol analysis devices, touting the fact that it is available across the entire range, which is not the case at archrival and market leader Network General Corp.
• Read Article
19/9/2006
Infoworld.com: Network Instruments revs for 10GbE
The move makes the company the first to deliver real-time analysis, monitoring and reporting of full-duplex 10GbE networks across all products, according to the company.
• Read Article
23/9/2006
Interop.com: Network Instruments Announce 10Gig
"Unlike some of our competitors, we made an early investment in the concept of a common code base. So yesterday when we made the announcement; we are actually saying that 10gig is now available across our product line" — Douglas Smith
• Read Article
18/9/2006
Network Instruments® Integrates New Line of 10 GbE Monitoring Appliances Into the Observer® Family
Analysis probes are first to provide real-time 10 gigabit full-duplex monitoring and Expert analysis to data centres and enterprise networks
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
27/7/2006
Network Instruments® to Acquire Sunbelt Software’s LanHound Customers
Network Instruments, a leading provider of innovative analysis solutions for in-depth network intelligence and continuous availability, today announced its acquisition of Sunbelt Software’s LanHound customer base.
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
4/8/2006
CRN: VAR's Solution Is A Gem
Expertise in knowing how and where to look for the cause of a network slowdown is priceless.
• Read Article
24/7/2006
TechWorld: Network Instruments launches write-to-SAN probe
Network Instruments has launched an appliance that allows users to save data to a 2TB, 4TB or 8TB capture buffer or to a storage area network. The company said that with the GigaStor-WAN probe, data could be gathered and reviewed in real-time without stopping the continuous data capture.
• Read Article
23/7/2006
cpiLive.net: GigaStor analyses WAN traffic with ease
Network Instruments says its GigaStor probe is the answer, because it can capture gigabytes of network traffic, analyse them and forward the analysis to a central console (its Observer protocol analysis and network-monitoring software). We recently tested the 4TB version of the GigaStor appliance (Network Instruments also makes 2TB and 8TB versions).
• Read Article
14/7/2006
Enterprise IT Planet: Network Instruments Probes
Protocol analysis vendor Network Instruments LLC has launched a member of its GigaStor retrospective probe family for analyzing wide-area network (WAN) links, with onboard storage up to 8TB and, for the first time, the ability to write directly to a storage area network (SAN).
• Read Article
14/7/2006
Computer Business Review: Network Instruments unveils GigaStor probe for WAN
Protocol analysis vendor Network Instruments LLC has launched a member of its GigaStor retrospective probe family for analyzing wide-area network (WAN) links, with onboard storage up to 8TB and, for the first time, the ability to write directly to a storage area network (SAN).
• Read Article
13/7/2006
RedOrbit: Proactive Network Management
A recent UK survey of 150 enterprise networking professionals, sponsored by Network Instruments, found that 62% are of the opinion that the lack of information about problems and their causes is the most common network issue. In addition, 55% are worried about having insufficient tools to perform adequate application monitoring.
• Read Article
12/7/2006
Network Instruments® Announces Time-Based, Historical Analysis for Wide Area Networks and New Write-to-SAN Options for the GigaStor
GigaStor Technology Extended to Support WAN Links and Now Includes Greater Storage Capacity Utilising Storage Area Networks
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
5/6/2006
NetworkWorld Clear Choice Test
"The appliance passed our tests with flying colors." - Barry Nance, Network World Lab Alliance.
• Read Review (PDF)
6/3/2006
Survey Highlights Growing Demand for Proactive Network Management Tools
Network Administrators demand more integrated network management tools to cope with increasing complexity of enterprise networks
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
16/5/2006
PC Plus
We’ve always found Observer to be one of the best network analysis solutions on the market; with a high level of features for a price that now includes extensive VoIP monitoring. Few products can compete at this price, making it a good choice for SMEs that want to know everything that’s happening on their network.
• Read Article
21/5/2006
PC Pro
Verdict: The base product doesn't see many changes but the Expert version delivers a massive range of network analysis tools. And the new stream reconstruction features and VoIP support aren't to be sniffed at either, especially for the price.
• Read Article
24/4/2006
Fibre Channel tools beef up SAN analyser
Network analysis firm Network Instruments boosts integrated Fibre Channel support in its Observer software.
• Read Article
24/4/2006
Network Instruments® Integrates Fibre Channel Analysis into Observer®
New line of hardware appliances monitors and provides network intelligence on storage area networks
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
24/4/2006
Network Instruments® Provides NetFlow and sFlow Data Collection Capacity within Observer®
Fully integrated into the product architecture, new features vastly expand remote networking visibility and offer greater efficiencies in maintaining network uptime
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
4/6/2006
Is VoIP Ready For Business?
Network Instruments' survey also found that 29 percent of those questioned had worries concerning the monitoring of call data.
• Read Article
22/3/2006
Concerns over VoIP - survey
The main challenge with running VoIP across an enterprise network is its extreme sensitivity to delay, jitter and packet loss compared with other network applications such as web and e-mail services. As a result, users can experience audio quality problems, ultimately resulting in user complaints and downtime.
• Read Article
22/3/2006
Network Instruments Survey Highlights Network Professionals Concerns over Voice over IP
One of the key issues the survey highlighted was the measurement of VoIP traffic. 33 per cent of respondents felt their company was lacking in VoIP monitoring functionality. Based on the tools they had available, 54 per cent of respondents stated they were concerned about measuring quality of service, and 29 per cent had worries about monitoring call data.
• Read Article
22/2/2006
Survey Highlights Network Professionals Concerns over Voice over IP
UK networking professionals continue to implement VoIP while express many concerns over the general reliability and robustness of VoIP for serious business use
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
15/3/2006
Network Analyzer helps optimize VoIP management
Offering enterprise-strength VoIP analysis, Observer v11 features time-based interface for examining up to 8 TB of data and ability to pinpoint transaction delay through up to 10 conversation hops.
• Read Article
30/1/2006
Network Instruments® Releases New High-Capacity Analysis Appliance
New addition to GigaStor™ line captures terabytes of data at wire speed for data mining
• Press Release
30/1/2006
Network Instruments® Eases Probe Administration and Supervision with New Management Server
NIMS Delivers Centralized Management and Shared Access of Analysis Toolsfor Enterprise Network Managers and Administrators
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
18/1/2006
Network Instruments® Experiences 24 Per cent Overall Growth in 2005
Major Competitive Wins Help Company Realise its 11th Consecutive Year of Double-Digit Growth
• Press Release
• Press Release (PDF)
2005 News
2004 News
2003 News
For a complete press release and news archive, please see the main
Network Instruments web page, at www.networkinstruments.com. |
