OPNET Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPNT), a leading provider of
solutions for IT Service Assurance, this week revealed its strategy
for High Definition Application Performance Management (APM). The
announcement was made at OPNETWORK 2010, OPNET's annual technology
conference being held this week in Washington, D.C., with more than
1,800 registered attendees from around the world.
High Definition APM™ addresses key challenges
in effective IT service management. A successful approach must be
broad, since the typical enterprise application relies on dozens or
even hundreds of separate hardware and software components, such as
web servers, network devices, and data bases. Experts employ
specialized management tools to support each domain. Domain
specific knowledge is important, however this "silo based" approach
is insufficient to effectively manage the end-to-end performance of
IT services.
According to Alain Cohen, OPNET President and CTO, "Some vendors
who claim to deliver 'end-to-end' APM merely present side-by-side
views from multiple management tools. A true end-to-end approach
requires integration of data and workflows across management
domains. However, OPNET's concept of High Definition APM goes
beyond 'end-to-end' by emphasizing deeper, higher-resolution data
and advanced analytics to leverage that data to enable root cause
analytics and problem prevention."
High Definition APM is characterized by very fine-grained
metrics as well as detailed transaction tracing to obtain a more
accurate picture of the behavior and performance of all components
of the application infrastructure. Tools that lack such detailed
visibility often miss evidence of serious performance issues.
Marc Cohen, OPNET Chairman and CEO, stated, "More than merely a
vision for OPNET's future, High Definition APM is delivered in our
products today, with a greater degree of integration and forensic
analysis than any other solution suite in the industry. Today we
are announcing new products that will further fulfill our vision,
and significantly advance the state of IT service assurance.
Additionally, we are redefining our solution suite to more clearly
convey its breadth and depth, including introducing a cohesive
product naming scheme that more clearly reflects the roles of all
of our domain solutions and the tight integration among them."
OPNET announced OPNET Service
Xpert™ at OPNETWORK, a key new solution for cross-domain
management. Service Xpert enables a service model-driven approach
to performance management, with real-time business oriented views
of the IT environment that immediately communicate the impact of
problems on application performance. From these high level views,
the user can drill into analytics that will isolate the problem to
a specific domain, and from there invoke deep forensic analysis to
diagnose the exact root cause. OPNET Service Xpert leverages
established application and infrastructure discovery capabilities
from across OPNET's application performance management and network
performance management solutions to construct the integrated
service model.
According to Alain Cohen, OPNET President and CTO, "The need for
integration between application and network performance management
is becoming more acute as the application infrastructure becomes
more distributed and dynamic through virtualization, Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA), and inter-application dependencies.
OPNET Service Xpert will be a unifying solution providing
dashboards and correlation across not only our APM suite, but also
our network performance management suite. We are continuing to
invest in synergistic workflows among our solutions in order to
expand the range of problems that can be addressed, as well as
increase the level of automation in IT service management."
AppDNA Xpert™ was also introduced at OPNETWORK.
AppDNA Xpert discovers application components and maps them to a
detailed infrastructure model to automatically populate the
end-to-end service model in OPNET Service Xpert.
OPNET announced the following additional offerings as part of
its High Definition APM suite:
AppTelemetry Xpert™ uses remote instrumentation
techniques to provide visibility into the performance of the
underlying application infrastructure, including server and network
devices. This solution is particularly useful where direct
instrumentation is not an option. Historical and real-time data
from infrastructure components is seamlessly incorporated into
analyses across OPNET's APM suite to provide a more complete
picture. AppTelemetry Xpert also discovers the application
path and the elements traversed by the transaction, retrieving
targeted metrics to automate common troubleshooting work flows
while substantially improving their accuracy. AppTelemetry Xpert
leverages and extends capabilities drawn from OPNET's network
management solutions to target infrastructure performance metrics
that are particularly valuable for detecting and diagnosing
application performance issues.
AppSQL Xpert™ provides deep visibility into
database activity and also measures the performance of database
transactions. The solution injects detailed database performance
metrics and tracing into the root cause analysis process.
AppInternals Xpert looks deep into the complex
software frameworks of modern servers, leveraging vast amounts of
performance and forensic data to support all aspects of service
assurance from the server perspective. It performs High Definition
monitoring and forensic analysis for any type of application, and
excels in particular in Java and Microsoft .NET environments.
AppInternals Xpert uses unique technology to provide deep
instrumentation with very low overhead.
AppResponse Xpert uniquely combines end-user
experience monitoring and in-depth analysis of the behavior and
performance of the underlying network. It leverages the network's
central role as a conduit for data and transactions to obtain
complete visibility of IT services across the enterprise. Real-time
on-board analytics determine which components in the application
infrastructure are contributing most to delays. AppResponse Xpert
also incorporates Web Transaction Analytics, monitoring the
transactions of all web users in real time and automatically
identifying problematic web pages that are impacting user
experience. Unlike most network monitoring appliances, which focus
on either lower level network behavior or higher level business
transactions, AppResponse Xpert combines both in a single
appliance.
AppTransaction Xpert is the most powerful tool
available for detailed analysis of application transactions
captured from the live environment. AppTransaction Xpert is able to
shed light on transaction behavior and performance. The software
makes extensive use of patented visualization and analytics to
dramatically improve pre-deployment testing and prediction, and
accelerate troubleshooting in production. The combination of
AppResponse Xpert and AppTransaction Xpert is unique in the
industry, providing a seamless workflow that spans monitoring,
alerting, triage, root cause diagnosis, and selected
recommendations for remediation.
Availability
Service Xpert and AppDNA Xpert are planned to be available from
OPNET in the second calendar quarter of 2011. AppTelemetry Xpert,
AppSQL Xpert, AppInternals Xpert, AppResponse Xpert, and
AppTransaction Xpert are available now from OPNET.
About OPNET Technologies, Inc.
Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPNT) is a
leading provider of solutions for IT Service Assurance. For more
information about OPNET and its products, please visit
www.opnet.com.
OPNET, OPNET Technologies, Inc., High Definition APM, Service
Xpert, AppDNA Xpert, AppTelemetry Xpert, AppSQL Xpert,
AppTransaction Xpert, AppResponse Xpert, and AppInternals Xpert are
trademarks of OPNET Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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facts may constitute forward-looking statements as defined in the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. OPNET
Technologies, Inc. ("OPNET") assumes no obligation to update
statements. Forward-looking statements are predictions based upon
information available to OPNET as of the date of this press release
and involve risks and uncertainties; therefore, actual events or
results may differ materially. For a discussion of risk factors,
see OPNET's reports, including its most recent 10-Q and 10-K, filed
with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
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CONTACT: OPNET Technologies, Inc.
Media Contact:
Margarita Castillo
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Investor Relations:
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