http://blog.infovista.com Real insight into maximizing application and network service performance Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:20:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Ranga Thittai Senior Product Manager InfoVista As mobile data and content traffic volumes continue to grow exponentially, the revenue that telecom operators can derive from providing these mobile data services will not. This reality has led mobile operators and wholesale network infrastructure providers to look toward driving down “per-bit” costs for transporting ... http://blog.infovista.com/index.php/2010/09/02/indispensable-considerations-for-ethernet-mobile-backhaul/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed By Ranga Thittai Senior Product Manager InfoVista A key component in the success of mobile service providers is application performance management, which includes the ability to view an application and its response time—whether it’s in the form of streaming and real-time data services, such as mobile TV, push-to-talk, mobile-to-mobile games, or the critical ... http://blog.infovista.com/index.php/2010/08/27/holistic-application-performance-management%e2%80%94a-must-in-ensuring-mobile-quality-of-experience/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed By Steve Hateley, Product Marketing Director, InfoVista Rather than acquiring costly additional network bandwidth, today’s enterprises are turning to the merits of WAN optimization. This enables them to compress traffic from applications such as data backup, private LANs, and certain sales tools so they can preserve sufficient network bandwidth for more real-time, ... http://blog.infovista.com/index.php/2010/08/20/exploit-the-benefits-of-managed-wan-services/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed [caption id="attachment_633" align="alignleft" width="136" caption="Cyril Doussau de Bazignan"][/caption] By Cyril Doussau de Bazignan, Product Marketing Director, InfoVista In a recent report by Jim Frey, research director at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), EMA evaluated 18 vendors providing application-aware network performance management solutions.  As Jim highlights in his report, these 18 vendors represent a ... http://blog.infovista.com/index.php/2010/08/13/service-centric-performance-assurance-provides-a-strong-fit-for-enterprise-apm-demands/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed By Eric Fries, Senior Vice-President, Application Performance Management, InfoVista Never before has application performance played such a critical role in determining where customers will buy their MPLS VPNs. It all started about five years ago, when forward-thinking service providers began offering application performance management as a service on top of MPLS ... http://blog.infovista.com/index.php/2010/08/06/application-performance-management-unified-communications-and-the-cloud/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed By Kathleen Ayres, Product Marketing Manager, InfoVista Communication technologies in the workplace have changed dramatically over the past couple of decades. What started as an environment where most employees were tied to their desks has evolved into a mobile and geographically dispersed workforce due to advances in communications technology (corporate and ... http://blog.infovista.com/index.php/2010/07/30/the-promise-of-unified-communications/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed By Manuel Stopnicki, CTO, InfoVista At Cisco Live 2010 in Las Vegas, Cisco CEO and Chairman John Chambers gave a great keynote address that described the critical need for organizations to focus on operational excellence. One of his key points was that there is no true innovation without operational excellence. He then ... http://blog.infovista.com/index.php/2010/07/23/john-chambers-at-cisco-has-it-right%e2%80%94innovation-requires-operational-excellence/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed By Steve Hateley, Director of Product Marketing, InfoVista Recently, I’ve noticed more and more vendors are claiming to do “Customer Experience Management”. But I pose the question “are they?” or is it just a convenient phrase to align with for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). As far as Customer Experience is concerned, ... http://blog.infovista.com/index.php/2010/07/16/customer-experience-management-%e2%80%93-everyone%e2%80%99s-doing-it-apparently-or-are-they/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed By Cyril Doussau de Bazignan, Product Marketing Director, InfoVista Imagine if Apple rested on its iPod success and brought us a brand new 4GB iPhone in 2010—with no App store.  Would they still be overflowing with so many preorders? Timing is everything—and the principal also applies to service providers. Today service providers are ... http://blog.infovista.com/index.php/2010/06/29/timing-is-everything/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed By Steve Hateley, Director of Product Marketing, InfoVista In Part 1 of this series, I began a discussion of the thought-provoking ideas shared by Emily Nagle Green and Camille Mendler of Yankee Group during a recent briefing in London. Here’s some more of what I heard at the briefing. Loving and leveraging ... http://blog.infovista.com/index.php/2010/06/25/how-can-the-telecom-industry-start-growing-again-part-ii/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed