07/21/2008

Mazu Networks, the provider of behavior-based, enterprise-class performance and availability solutions, today announced response time analytics in addition to its current application performance, application availability, network utilization and security analysis capabilities.

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The addition of response time extends Mazu Profiler's arsenal of analytics and makes it the most comprehensive and competitive performance and availability solution based on Network Behavior Analysis (NBA). Further, Mazu Profiler's ability to automatically create dynamic activity-baselines across the IT infrastructure provides users with an effective alternative to the outdated manual threshold approach.

The status quo approach to performance management requires IT personnel to determine and manually set what constitutes "good performance" for applications across a large number of different delivery paths. Setting manual thresholds on activity within complex IT infrastructures requires continuous tuning, making traditional solutions impractical in today’s business environment.

"To improve the productivity of the network operations team, network performance management products should automatically establish a baseline measurement of "normal" behavior for time of day and day of week, dynamically set warning and critical thresholds as standard deviations off the baseline, and notify the network manager only when an exception condition occurs," said Debra Curtis, research vice president, Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. "A simple static threshold based on an industry average or a "rule of thumb" will generate false alarms and waste the network manager’s time."

Through Mazu Profiler's comprehensive analytics, IT operations teams gain a true end-to-end view of the application delivery path from back-end servers to the users’ desktops. Mazu Profiler learns the typical behavior patterns for hundreds of key performance indicators on the interactions of and dependencies between users, applications, network and systems. Mazu Profiler is the only solution that uses advanced behavior-based technologies to analyze traffic to detect application performance and availability, congestion and security issues to ensure the constant delivery of critical business services. These competitive capabilities enable IT organizations to:

• ensure service levels and address performance issues before users are affected, thereby minimizing any disruption to business services;



• populate CMDBs with discovery and dependency information regarding critical data center resources;



• provide impact analysis to inform change and optimization initiatives such as data center moves; and



• secure assets and information that the enterprise requires to be competitive and achieve regulatory compliance.

Mazu Profiler provides significant value to network, security and data center operations teams by offering organizations a new way of looking at the IT infrastructure. By using Network Behavior Analysis (NBA), Mazu Profiler analyzes network traffic to provide valuable information about the interactions of and dependencies between users, applications and systems. This enables IT organizations to manage, secure and optimize the availability and performance of business services. This new network perspective enables IT teams to improve key initiatives including: application performance management; security and compliance; WAN management; CMDB-discovery; and data center consolidation and migration.

"Understanding the behavior of the IT infrastructure is the key to successfully managing, operating and securing today's complex network," said Charles Kaplan, chief technology strategist, Mazu Networks. "Network Behavior Analysis is no longer optional; it is a necessity for any organization running critical business services on their network. From IT operations to security, Mazu Profiler is the only solution on the market that can apply behavior analysis to provide intelligence across the IT infrastructure."

Maintaining high network availability and performance is critical to running a productive business. With Mazu Profiler, companies can address critical IT initiatives and evolve their network to keep pace with the speed of business today. For more information on the ways Mazu Profiler can resolve today’s most pressing network operations and security challenges, please visit: http://www.mazunetworks.com/it-initiatives.

Pricing and Availability

Mazu Profiler is available through Mazu Networks sales channels and network of value-added authorized resellers, distributors and systems integrators. Organizations seeking a reseller or distributor should contact Mazu Networks at: 866-354-MAZU or via email: info@mazunetworks.com. Mazu solutions start at $35,000 and can scale to meet the needs of any size network.