Fluke Networks Unveils Visual Performance Manager 4.0

Fluke Networks has announced the global availability of Visual Performance Manager 4.0, the latest version of its performance management system. Visual Performance Manager 4.0 improves delivery of business services by quickly pinpointing the root cause of networked application performance issues with a new high-end Application Performance Solution and a patented software analytics engine.

The new application performance component of Visual Performance Manager delivers three key benefits to IT departments: easy identification of which applications are performing poorly with quick drill down ability to pinpoint why; elimination of finger pointing between groups through individual client/ application response metrics; simplified troubleshooting and reduced mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) of multi-tier applications by visibly time-correlating the transactions of the multiple tiers. The new Application Performance Appliance uses a custom data acquisition card that is more efficient at analysing relevant traffic information, leading to more efficient delivery of networked application performance.

Application delivery is becoming the critical point of focus for IT organisations. As noted by Forrester senior analyst Evelyn Hubbert in ‘The Network Management Software Market’ (Forrester Research, June 6, 2007), “The responsibility of application delivery is moving to the network professionals. The result is that infrastructure availability and utilisation are no longer good indicators of network health. The network management team needs to shift from fault- to performance-based management. This will allow network professionals to become more visible and relevant to their business customers, as they are able to provide excellent service delivery to the business in transporting data from one end of the system to the other end as fast as possible.”

In addition to providing faster analysis through the new Application Performance Appliance, Visual Performance Manager 4.0 also allows IT departments to focus their limited resources on resolving the most critical issues through the use of a more efficient way of handling exception incidents. This version of Visual Performance Manager offers an intelligent alarm view which ’learns’ based on real-world data. The alarm information is presented as a single, unified view from data sources such as Visual Performance Manager Analysis Service Elements (ASEs) and the Application Performance Appliance.