Athenahealth, a provider of cloud-based healthcare software, will replace more than a half-dozen stand-alone network management tools with Infosim® StableNet®. StableNet®, an enterprise network availability and performance management system, will help unify operations by providing customizable dashboards and network transparency to all key stakeholders in Athenahealth’s IT organization.

 

The Changing Needs and Requirements for Enterprise Network Management

Athenahealth, a provider of cloud-based healthcare software, will replace more than a half-dozen stand-alone network management tools with Infosim® StableNet®. StableNet®, an enterprise network availability
and performance management system, will help unify operations by providing customizable dashboards and network transparency to all key stakeholders in Athenahealth’s IT organization.

Managing large, distributed networks is a challenge from a number of perspectives. But organizations that have chosen and deployed networking equipment from multiple manufacturers have some of the greatest challenges.

IT plays an integral role in the success and efficiency of large businesses and, with a pan-European network supporting users across 80 cities and five countries, SCC is no exception. It needed a reliable solution that could meet the large-scale demands of its operations.

As the business grew, previous IT solutions used by the company were unable to cope with the scale of the network and proved operationally unreliable, impacting negatively on productivity. In addition, they did not have the technical capabilities to produce the detailed IT service reports and intelligent alerting that the business was requesting from the SCC network and application teams.

Nucleus Connect required a fully automated service assurance system for their next generation fibre-optic transport network. This network comprised an MPLS core, active Ethernet access networks and a passive optical access segment based on GePON (IEEE 802.3 standard).

EMA 2018 report on InfoSim, comparing it strength on functionality, deployment and administration, cost advantage, vendor strength and archetecture and integration

ONE Single Application- ONE Single Database for Performance, Network Configration and Fault Management

This webinar from InfoSim discusses the challenges we face when we need to monitor industrial IoT devices, SDN and IT infrastructure.   Industrial IoT devices is the use of Internet of things (IoT) technology in collecting sensor data in the many area’s that companies need to collect data.  The use of this technology can result in serious technical challenges, in monitoring 10 of 1000’s of devices. 

Modern enterprise applications are engineered for agility and are heavily virtualized for frequent deployment over scalable IT infrastructure environments. The benefits of virtualized public/private cloud environments include flexibility, efficiency, and agile business enablement. Multiple factors such as varying workload requirements, or ‘just-in-time’ provisioning require an accurate and scalable multi-functional management suite to mitigate the risk of compromising the environment. Infosim’s StableNet® unified management system provides the total visibility and control required for your cloud hosting infrastructure environment.

SDN - A Promising Approach for Next Generation Networks

Recently, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become a very popular term in the area of communication networks. The key idea of SDN is to introduce a separation of the control plane and the data plane of a communication network. The control plane is removed from the normal network elements into typically centralized control components. The normal elements can be replaced by simpler and therefore cheaper off-the-shelf devices that are only taking care of the data plane, i.e. forwarding traffic according to rules introduced by the control unit

Now a cost effective reality with Infosim® StableNet®

It has always been the vision for most telecommunications operators, managed service providers (MSPs) and enterprise corporations to have a cost effective solution for implementing a performance measurement and simulation capability that spans every hop within a network or service delivery path.

These release notes provide the release information for Infosim® StableNet® Telco and Enterprise, Version 7.5.

When researching the Unified Network Management Solution market space there are many sources of information available; vendor websites, market analysts, awarding bodies, community forums and magazine reviews. All this information can quite easily conflict and serve to confuse researchers.

To complicate matters further, vendors market their product functionality using the same or similar terms, but actually when looking a little deeper, the researcher often finds what a term means for one vendor, means something entirely different to another.

For example; the term Root Cause Analysis could mean that the management software automatically has an understanding of the topology of a network and is able to send alerts only on the failure of one device that is impacting many. Another product may only be able to achieve this by pre-configuring a series of manual rules which will require maintaining during the life of the tool.

As IT Professionals absorb all these information sources and the difference in perspectives, it can become very confusing and it’s easy to lose sight of what their business needs.

This document will identify areas that the author believes need to be considered when investigating the deployment of a new unified network management solution. In addition it provides a check list of key capabilities to use when comparing different vendors to be used within RFI’s and business cases.