Network Physics Announces New NetSensory Insight Builder for the Channel; Channel Partners Now Able to Deliver New Performance, Optimization and Acceleration Service Offerings by Creating Step-by-Step Best-Practice Templates

Business Wire, Oct 17, 2005

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Following last week's news of the new NetSensory OS 5.0, featuring pre-built NetSensory Insights(TM), Network Physics today announces the NetSensory Insight Builder. The Insight Builder is a visual software development kit that will enable channel partners and systems integrators to create customized, step-by-step workflow templates to create new revenue-generating services such as network performance assessments or best-practice subscriptions. The NetSensory Insights and new Insight Builder also allow channel partners and systems integrators to develop new service offerings that help their customers compare and benchmark competing performance optimization products, with the channel acting as an independent arbiter, to determine which technology provides the best results for customers. E[acute accent]As customers face an ever-increasing array of application performance problems and related optimization and acceleration technology solutions, channel partners have a significant opportunity to fill the consultative role to match a customer's individual performance issues with the appropriate solution from leading vendors such as F5 Networks, Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.; Juniper Networks; Orbital Networks; Silver Peak Systems; and Cisco Systems, Inc. NetSensory OS 5.0 with NetSensory Insights meets the demand for a systematic process that automates the workflow required to first audit, baseline and troubleshoot enterprise application performance, and then to provide a quantitative method to compare and recommend appropriate performance optimization solutions. By using NetSensory Insights, channel partners can quickly determine the source of application performance issues (whether in the network, the server or the applications themselves), establish baselines of before and after performance to determine where the bottlenecks truly are, and pinpoint what the customer really needs: WAN optimization, server-side application acceleration, network security enhancements, network redesign, server consolidation, bandwidth changes or application redesign. E[acute accent]"When we're helping customers or prospects to understand why their applications are slow, one of the first things we do is conduct a network audit using NetSensory Insights to determine where the problem resides," explains Scott Foster, president of Austin Networking, a Texas-based VAR that represents Peribit and Packeteer tools. "In the past, we would recommend an optimization tool and use that product's measurement technology to determine if the tool was helping to solve the problem. Now, we're able to not only baseline performance objectively before and after, but also look beyond the WAN to isolate server-side problems, network security and worm infections, and a wider variety of problem areas where we can help the customer and extend our value. Is Packeteer going to secure the best results? Will Peribit be better? Or is it a server or application problem? With Network Physics Insights, we've become acceleration performance intelligence experts, and therefore, we can provide the most practical value to our customers." E[acute accent]NetSensory Insights are XML-based templates that quickly and easily walk users through the audit, baseline, troubleshoot, secure and optimize steps necessary to ensure that applications are running at their peak performance. The end-result is a point-and-click Insight that automates the workflow required to perform activities such as:

E[acute accent]--Audit -- Via an infrastructure assessment, auto-discovers the constantly changing end-to-end infrastructure including applications, servers and networks. Answers the questions: What's on my network? Who's talking to whom?

E[acute accent]--Baseline -- Measures typical application performance to assist with setting alerts and SLAs; then measures ongoing performance against this standard. Tracks latency, load, response times and application chattiness at the branch, NOC and data center levels.

E[acute accent]--Troubleshoot -- Identifies and isolates response time issues. Answers the questions: Where's the problem? Is it on the server, network, or hop or at the application provider?

E[acute accent]--Secure -- Instantly pinpoints worms, spambots, malware, and identifies rogue traffic and bandwidth hogs. Identifies security problems before many IDS solutions. Behavior-based alerting eliminates the need for specific "signatures."

E[acute accent]--Optimize -- Pinpoints chatty applications, tracks application turns, and provides a basis for before-and-after analysis to compare different acceleration products or optimize performance versus baseline analysis.

E[acute accent]The NetSensory Insight Builder is delivered as an optional licensed product, and will be available in November 2005. Insight Builder pricing starts at $20,000.

E[acute accent]About Network Physics

E[acute accent]The Network Physics award-winning application performance insight solutions help enterprises ensure the integrity and security of the applications infrastructure by eliminating response-time problems across converging networks. The company's patented technology applies proven techniques from high-energy physics to assure the delivery of business-critical networked applications and services, and gives the IT staff unprecedented visibility into applications and services to better align IT operations with business priorities. This enables users to dramatically reduce the time and cost of new application and service delivery, improve service quality and uptime, align IT operations with business priorities, and reduce operating costs by finding and fixing problems faster. Network Physics was founded in March 1999, and its products are currently deployed at a wide range of Global 2000 corporations. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.networkphysics.com.