NetQoS Draws Record Attendance at 6th Annual Customer Symposium; Executive Keynotes, Training Address the Network Engineer's Evolving Role, How to Better Manage the Network for Application Performance

Business Wire, April 26, 2006

AUSTIN, Texas -- Signaling the rising need for network engineers to focus on application performance, NetQoS(R) Inc. announced the highest attendance ever at its 6th Annual NetQoS Symposium, held last week in Austin, Texas. The theme -- Managing the Network for Application Performance -- resonated with the attendees: More than 98 percent indicated in an on-site survey that their responsibility for application performance in their organizations is growing.

"I was very impressed with the quality of the speakers NetQoS was able to attract and the variety of technical and management training options," said Bob Miller, president of Hillsdale Consulting. "The content was leading-edge and showed why NetQoS is at the forefront of enabling organizations to monitor, measure and improve the performance of large network infrastructures."

NetQoS customers and other network, operations and management personnel -- mostly from Fortune 1000 companies and state and federal government organizations -- gathered from across the U.S. and Europe to attend the three-day Symposium, which consisted of keynotes from industry leaders, NetQoS product training, customer presentations, hands-on labs, and vendor-neutral NetManager and NetAnalyst(R) training and Symposium certification.

In his keynote address, NetQoS CEO Joel Trammell discussed the "new role of the network engineer." The first concern for network engineers, said Trammell, is no longer just device availability, but also how well applications perform over the network. Network engineers and operations personnel are dealing with dramatic increases in performance issues due to market forces such as data center consolidation, increased numbers of remote users, the rise of voice and video traffic, migration to MPLS, legacy applications, and more complex applications including the use of service-oriented architectures and Web services.

"Performance is the thousand shades of gray between those red and green lights indicating whether devices are up or down, and network engineers and managers must switch from an up/down model of network management to a 'performance first' model to quantify what the end user is experiencing," said Trammell. "The NetQoS Symposium provides our customers and any network or IT personnel with the tools and knowledge to monitor and measure performance first to make true improvements in the delivery of networked applications. The performance first model will enable IT teams to proactively manage the network and be seen as a partner enabling a business transaction -- not just a cost center."

Other keynote presentations were given by Jeanne Moreno, CIO of Snap-on(R) Inc., who discussed how networks need to help position IT as a utility; Marc Willebeek-LeMair, CTO of 3Com(R) Corp., who addressed "bi-planar networks and the new frontier in network security and application performance," and Chris Gahagan, senior vice president of EMC Corp., who covered the challenges and opportunities for networks in moving to a "flat world."

NetQoS product sessions trained attendees on how to get the most value out of NetQoS Performance Center product modules for measuring the impact of change (including migrating to MPLS or deploying VoIP), avoiding unnecessary infrastructure costs, optimizing the network for application performance, and isolating and solving problems quickly.

The NetQoS Performance Center is a Web-based management portal that integrates data from NetQoS' products in customized views to help enterprises be more effective in capacity planning, troubleshooting, and service level management. Its product modules include SuperAgent(R) for end-to-end performance monitoring, ReporterAnalyzer(TM) for traffic analysis, and NetVoyant(R) for device and infrastructure performance monitoring.

About NetQoS Inc.

NetQoS software and services help large organizations -- including 8 of the Fortune 12 -- improve the delivery of applications over wide area networks by enabling them to monitor application service levels, troubleshoot problems quickly, and plan for change. Representative NetQoS customers include Chevron, Lockheed Martin, American Express, Hilton Hotels, Siemens, Boeing, Deutsche Telekom, NASA, and Barclays Global Investors. For more information, visit http://www.netqos.com or call 877-835-9575.

NetQoS, SuperAgent, and NetVoyant are registered trademarks and ReporterAnalyzer is a trademark of NetQoS Inc. All other trade names, trademarks, and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.