COSTA MESA, Calif.,
March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX), a leader in network
connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the next
generation of its network monitoring and visibility portfolio,
architected to support the demands and complexity of today's 10Gb,
40Gb and 100Gb Ethernet (100GbE)-based networks. The latest
EndaceProbe™ Intelligent Network Recorders (INRs) and
EndaceVision™ 6.0 Network Visibility Software
introduces new capabilities to manage and make sense of the massive
network traffic volumes created by continual business demands. The
new EndaceProbe INR and EndaceVision reduce the costs and effort
associated with managing physical, virtual and software-defined
networks by enabling network and security professionals to
rapidly capture, analyze and diagnose potential and actual network
and security issues in real-time. The ability to view network
incidents with microsecond-level accuracy is unprecedented in the
Application Aware-Network Performance Management (AA-NPM) and
security space.
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"As 10GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE networks become more prevalent and
complex with hybrid cloud deployments, software-defined networking
and multiple layers of virtualization, our customers trust
EndaceProbe INRs to provide a deep and consumable understanding of
how each layer interacts and affects their network performance and
availability, as well as enabling the enterprise to track and
manage security incidents and issues by having real-time packet
level visibility into all incidents and activities," said
Ali Hedayati, senior vice president
and general manager, Network Visibility Products, Emulex. "Our next
generation network visibility platforms provide a dramatic step
forward in network visibility and monitoring and our
industry-leading ability to visualize the network and security
events which enable predictable application service level
agreements and security management."
Next Generation EndaceProbe INRs
Next
generation EndaceProbe INRs have been re-architected to meet the
performance, reliability, processing power, and open architecture
needed to integrate with today's network and application management
solutions. When combined with EndaceVision 6.0, EndaceProbe INR
network visibility appliances allow network operations teams to
quickly and easily identify issues, and optionally pass the
relevant data to third party tools. This dramatically improves root
cause isolation and mean time-to-resolution (MTTR).
New EndaceProbe INRs include the following new or enhanced
features and capabilities:
- Integrated Virtual Machines (VMs): EndaceProbe INRs
include a hypervisor, which allows analysis management, and
security applications to be hosted in a VM and have direct access
to packet data at the point of capture. Since multi-gigabit capture
files can be large and cumbersome to send to analysis applications,
the ability to load third party software directly onto the
EndaceProbe INRs enables analysis software to be quickly and easily
added or moved to the data instead of moving the data to the
software.
- 10GbE Write To Disk Performance and Increased Compute
Power: EndaceProbe 4104 and 8004 INRs provide 10GbE write to
disk rates, minimizing total cost of ownership while providing the
industry's only 100 percent accurate packet capture on today's
multi-10GbE networks. EndaceProbe INRs also include increased
compute power and memory that reduces the hardware footprint needed
to support the analysis of multi-10GbE networks.
- Flexible Deployment Options: The EndaceProbe INRs
include three new options; the 4104, 4004, and 8004. The
EndaceProbe 4104 INR - with highly reliable solid state disk (SSD)
primary storage - is ideal for on-demand recording across multiple
10GbE networks or wherever physical access is a challenge. The
EndaceProbe 4004 INR is a cost effective 1RU appliance for lower
packet rate multi-1GbE or 10GbE network links, ideal for remote
locations. The EndaceProbe 8004 INR is a 2RU appliance providing
ultra-fast, highly reliable disk storage for packet capture on
10GbE or higher networks. It is ideally suited for the core,
distribution, and access layers within data centers and large
campus environments for continuous high-speed recording and fast
retrieval during traffic analysis.
Next Generation EndaceVision
EndaceVision 6.0
is a powerful, purpose-built, web-based network history
visualization application for high-speed networks that comes
bundled with all EndaceProbe INRs. Using EndaceVision, network
operations, security, or incident response professionals can
navigate quickly through network history data – both packets and
metadata – to identify the cause of network issues and take
appropriate action – without guesswork.
EndaceVision includes the following new features and
capabilities:
- Endace MicroVision™ Support: Endace
MicroVision gives network managers microsecond-level views
into the captured packet data, allowing users to troubleshoot
disruptive high speed network issues with more detailed and
accurate inspection of shorter time periods. For 10GbE, the time to
transmit each packet of information has decreased by 10x as the
amount of traffic has increased by 10x, exponentially increasing
the amount of data for an IT analyst to cull through when
troubleshooting a network or application issue. Endace MicroVision
allows analysts to focus on the problem in small timeframes,
reducing the distraction of additional data and greatly enhancing
MTTR (watch this video to learn more).
- Dynamic Network Visualizations: EndaceVision
now includes the TCP Flags visualization and client and
server breakdowns, leveraging TCP's intrinsic statefulness and
explicit signaling to assist in monitoring and debugging transport
services across the network (watch this video to learn more).
- SCADA Detection and Decoding: EndaceVision 6.0 addresses
the needs of the utilities industry by including automatic
ICS/SCADA protocol detection and visualization, plus full
packet-level decodes in the web-based EndacePackets™
viewer, enabling analysts to ensure the stability and security of
utility network traffic.
"As 10GbE networks continue to proliferate, network managers
need microsecond-level granularity to sift through the data needed
to monitor and troubleshoot their high-speed networks as quickly as
possible," said Shamus McGillicuddy, senior analyst, network
management, Enterprise Management Associates. "The new capabilities
in the Emulex network visibility portfolio will give customers
flexible options and tools that will speed resolution of critical
network issues, and enable them to provide a world-class
experience."
Additional Resources:
- Read the Emulex Network Visibility Blog "Finding
session-related problems using EndaceVision"
- Read the Emulex Network Visibility Blog "Improving network
monitoring performance with the next generation Emulex EndaceProbe
INR"
- Learn more about Emulex network visibility solutions.
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About Emulex
Emulex provides connectivity, monitoring
and management solutions for high-performance networks, delivering
provisioning, end-to-end application visibility, optimization and
acceleration for the next generation of software-defined, telco and
Web-scale data centers. The Company's I/O connectivity portfolio,
which has been designed into server and storage solutions from
leading OEMs and ODMs worldwide, enables organizations to manage
bandwidth, latency, security and virtualization. The Emulex network
visibility portfolio enables global organizations to monitor and
improve application and network performance management. Emulex is
headquartered in Costa Mesa,
Calif. For more information about Emulex (NYSE: ELX) please
visit http://www.Emulex.com.
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