Enterprise Management Associates’ Radar report for Application-Aware Network Performance Management names CA Technologies and OPNET Technologies as value leaders.
CA Technologies can attribute its acquisition of NetQoS for its high rank on Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recent Radar report that analyzed some 20 vendors and their Application-Aware Network Performance Management (ANPM) product capabilities.
CA Technologies certainly isn’t shy about shopping for technology — the vendor since the beginning of 2009 alone has acquired 3Tera, Cassatt, NetQoS, Nimsoft and Oblicore. And recent research shows that the company is also pretty savvy when it comes to picking companies and products that will best round out its technology portfolio.
In the case of NetQoS, CA Technologies invested $200 million in 2009 to acquire the Austin-based network performance management vendor and is already seeing the fruits of that acquisition by way of industry recognition for its technology capabilities. Combining the NetQoS portfolio with products acquired years ago with Concord Communications, namely eHealth, CA Technologies caught the attention of Jim Frey, research director at EMA, author of the recent EMA Radar report on ANPM products.
“Long an ANPM provider via elements within the eHealth product line, CA Technologies made substantial strides into this sector via integration of product technologies received by means of acquiring NetQoS in late 2009,” Frey wrote in the report. “Combined with its ability to integrate into CA’s formidable infrastructure service assurance and service management offerings, CA Technologies ranked highest overall in terms of relative product strength.”
EMA listed four primary capabilities needed to qualify as a provider of ANPM: packet inspection, flow records, passive and synthetic agents, and log file analysis. While each area of technical functionality can deliver performance data in part, the combination of the four provide an ideal scenario for network managers hoping to better understand how applications, services and end users tap the network. CA Technologies stood out, Frey says, not only because of the breadth of its capability but also because of the company’s focus.
“CA had the most comprehensive elements in the solution and then the most comprehensive depth of functions of all solutions and that was all integrated into a larger product strategy that could be offered to customers,” Frey explained.
The report, which details the several criteria used to evaluate vendor products, also names OPNET Technologies as a value leader.
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